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WEBSep 10, 2024 · Public Health Watch and three partners today are launching FencelineData.org, a revolutionary tool that will make it easier for community members, advocates, journalists and researchers to find information on companies that release harmful chemicals and contribute to climate change. by Savanna Strott April 4, 2024.
The Watch - Public Health Watch
WEBApr 6, 2023 · The Watch: June 13, 2024. Black, Hispanic kids face more food and water insecurity, tire chemicals found on supermarket lettuce, wildfire pollution is killing Californians, hotter weather wreaks havoc on health …
Introducing Public Health Watch
WEBAug 16, 2021 · Today we unveil Public Health Watch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news site that will focus on the prevention of illness, injury and death. The timing is fortuitous, given the maddeningly resilient COVID-19 virus. But the idea of Public Health Watch has been percolating for more than two years. While we’re all preoccupied with the pandemic, […]
The Watch: September 28, 2023 - Public Health Watch
WEBSep 28, 2023 · Health support workers, registered nurses at high risk for suicide. Health care workers in three common professions are at significantly higher risk of dying by suicide than the general U.S. workforce, new research shows.
About Us - Public Health Watch
WEBOur Mission Public Health Watch is a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization that focuses on threats to America’s well-being. We illuminate weaknesses and injustices in the nation’s health infrastructure and policies, expose inequities and highlight solutions. National in scope, we collaborate with media outlets large and small and college journalism and public health ...
Our Team - Public Health Watch
WEBMolly Peterson is a Los Angeles-based staff writer for Public Health Watch. Previously she worked in public media, at KQED, LAist, WWNO, NPR and, most recently, the California Newsroom, where she investigated the Clean Air Act and wildfires. She was part of a KQED Science team honored with a Sigma Delta Chi award for wildfire reporting in 2020.
Public Health Watch Reporters: Our Year Investigating Health Care …
WEBOct 6, 2022 · What follows is Krisberg and Leffler’s account of what they saw during their trips to East Texas and the impacts of their investigation. Earlier this month, Public Health Watch published an investigative narrative about health-care access in rural Texas: “A Free Clinic Opened in Rural East Texas.Thousands Poured in for Help.”
Impact - Public Health Watch
WEBAug 20, 2024 · Since its founding in 2021, Public Health Watch has prompted regulatory reforms, legislation, community action, editorials and other positive developments. Our journalism has won national and regional awards. A running list of our accomplishments:
‘Chronic Underfunding’ of Public Health Threatens Lives in U.S., …
WEBJul 27, 2022 · The United States spent $4.1 trillion on health in 2020 but only 5.4% of that amount went toward public health — the prevention of illness and death, a new report has found.. The Trust for America’s Health offered this stark example, among others, of what it called “chronic underfunding of public health at both the federal and state levels,” which has left the nation “ill-prepared ...
Introducing The Watch - Public Health Watch
WEBApr 4, 2023 · Almost every day, interesting things arrive in my email inbox: Reports by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on topics as diverse as gun violence and black lung; new academic studies on toxic chemicals; new data on Medicaid coverage and the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease. We simply don’t have time at Public Health Watch […]
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