Center for Health Journalism

07/07/2025

The federal government is gutting programs shown to reduce overdose deaths and address the mental health crisis. Reporters in Mississippi are highlighting just how much is at stake, writes Fran Smith for this week's Health Divide. Read here:

The federal government is gutting programs shown to reduce overdose deaths and address the mental health crisis. Reporters in Mississippi are highlighting just how much is at stake.

07/07/2025

Our Data Fellowship is now open for applications! This program offers training on data acquisition, cleaning, analysis and visualization led by some of the most skilled data reporters and journalism practitioners in the nation. Learn more: https://bit.ly/2025DataFellowship

07/03/2025

Many pier fishermen in Southern California still eat DDT-contaminated fish, while government efforts struggle to address the region's lingering toxic legacy, writes Jackson Hudgins. Read his essay here: https://ow.ly/nOgs50WkBO5

07/03/2025

What a ride! 🎉 As we wrap up an incredible week of our 2025 National Fellowship, we’re filled with gratitude, pride, and so much excitement for what’s ahead. A huge congratulations to all our amazing fellows who brought the energy, the ideas, and the impact into every session! 🙌

We’d also like to give a heartfelt thank you to every speaker, partner and staff member who helped make this experience unforgettable. 💡✨

The future is bright and we can’t wait to see how each of you will shape it. 🚀

07/02/2025

All For Kids' Magnolia Place, a community hub in one of LA's densest immigrant neighborhoods brings together a host of services to support children and families facing challenges on all fronts, writes ChrisAnna Mink for the Center. Read here:

A community hub in one of LA's densest immigrant neighborhoods brings together a host of services to support children and families facing challenges on all fronts.

07/01/2025

A new bill in Congress aims to end a longstanding disparity that limits long-term disability coverage for mental health and substance use disorders to just 24 months — regardless of severity, writes Natalie Eilbert for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Read here:

A new bill in Congress aims to end a longstanding disparity that limits long-term disability coverage for mental health and substance use disorders to just 24 months — regardless of severity.

07/01/2025

A community hub in one of LA's densest immigrant neighborhoods brings together a host of services to support children and families facing challenges on all fronts, writes ChrisAnna Mink for the Center. Read the full essay:

A community hub in one of LA's densest immigrant neighborhoods brings together a host of services to support children and families facing challenges on all fronts.

06/30/2025

Apply to our Data Fellowship by July 22! Our program offers training on data acquisition, cleaning, analysis and visualization led by some of the most skilled data reporters and journalism practitioners in the nation. Learn more: https://bit.ly/2025DataFellowship

06/30/2025

Domestic violence affects more than 10 million Americans each year. Our Domestic Violence Virtual Symposium and Impact Reporting Fund provides reporters with a roadmap for covering this public health epidemic with nuance and sensitivity. Register for our Sept. 25 symposium here: https://bit.ly/RegDVSymposium

06/26/2025

We have arrived at the end of our National Fellowship week! Thank you so much to our , senior fellows, panelists and staff for making it such a great one.

06/26/2025

Our heard from Josh Pasek, professor of communication at the University of Michigan, on 'Disappearing Data: What's Missing and How Reporters Can Respond.' "As you're thinking about disappearing data, recognize it may have different implications, depending on the questions you're asking and whether it's just about the past, whether it's about the trends that you're using, whether it's about the future ...," Pasek told our Fellows.