Friday, May 24th, 2013
Center for Health Reporting, Analysis, John Gonzales, Posted: January 2, 2013 A consistent theme has emerged from the federal Healthy Start program since its founding in 1991: Infant mortality is not tackled during the 9 months of a woman’s pregnancy alone. “If we really want to improve pregnancy outcomes and reduce infant mortality in this
Friday, May 24th, 2013
Center for Health Reporting, Analysis, John Gonzales, Posted: January 2, 2013 After an agonizingly long fight to reduce the high death rate of African American newborns, California is beginning to make progress against a century-long racial disparity....
Friday, May 24th, 2013
Center for Health Reporting, Analysis, John Gonzales, Posted: January 2, 2013 In the roughest neighborhoods of Oakland, Sandra Tramiel carries a baby scale in her knapsack as she undertakes a profound mission: saving Alameda County’s black children from...
Friday, May 24th, 2013
Center for Health Reporting, Analysis, John Gonzales, Posted: May 7, 2013 In December, I wrote a series of articles with the San Francisco Chronicle that amounted to a tale of two counties in the fight against African...
Friday, May 24th, 2013
New America Media, News Feature, Peter Schurmann and Aruna Lee, Posted: Apr 18, 2013 Despite a mountain of international sanctions and grinding poverty, North Korea’s leaders have proven adept at procuring everything from the latest in digital...