Colorado school districts dramatically increased their use of out-of-school suspensions as pandemic-era staffing shortages made it harder to fill positions that play a crucial role in keeping children ...

It was a year after George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police officers, and Jessica Washington was investigating another story of racial injustice in Minnesota that had never attracted the same ...

Journalism with impact is central to the Center’s fellowships, methods and mission. What does that mean? Go deeper in these stories below to see how our Fellows are putting the skills, insights and ...

Our California Fellowship is designed to support reporters in the Golden State pursuing ambitious, enterprising projects on overlooked health and health equity issues. You decide what stories need to ...

Our competitive Fellowship programs offer individualized mentorship, generous reporting stipends ranging from $2,000 to $10,000, and a week-long training institute that includes inspiring trips in the ...

The Impact Fund for Reporting on Health Equity and Health Systems supports ambitious investigative and explanatory projects on systemic inequities in public health, health care policy and the practice ...

Teena Apeles is the national engagement editor at the Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism. A native Angeleno, prior to joining the ...

Domestic violence affects more than 10 million Americans each year. And in California, more than half of families have been touched by domestic violence. Yet it is often treated as a criminal or ...

Mary Chris Jaklevic is a veteran health care journalist. She recently worked as a reporter and editor for HealthNewsReview.org. She's served on the board of the Association of Health Care Journalists ...

The Center for Health Journalism at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism awarded $45,500 in reporting grants from its Impact Fund to help local and national journalists undertake ambitious ...

Sonya Collins is an independent journalist covering health care, medicine, and biomedical research. She is a regular contributor to WebMD Magazine, WebMD.com, CURE,Genome, Pharmacy Today, and Yale ...

The 2022 Impact Fund for Health Equity and Health Systems was supported by a generous grant from The Commonwealth Fund. The grantees and their projects are: Ted Alcorn, New Mexico in Depth and ...