Helpful Links

Explore a collection of hand-selected, valuable links for health care journalists.


Helpful Links

    • Health Equity

    Academic Research Centers

    Institute for the History of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University Medical historian Megan Wolff runs the…

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    Advocacy and Opinion

    Zero to Three: A Washington-based advocacy group, Zero to Three focuses on policies affecting infants and very young children. The…

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    Affordable Care Act

    IOM Summary: Achieving Health Equity via the Affordable Care Act This December 2015 report follows an Institute of Medicine workshop…

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    Aging

    The Center for Brain Health Equity created by UsAgainstAlzheimer’s with a $1.5 million cooperative agreement with the CDC Healthy Brain…

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    Behavior and Individual Risk Taking

    The National Institute on Drug Abuse funded the RAND Opioid Policy Tools and Information Center (OPTIC) to develop reliable data,…

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    Childhood Environment

    Lead in U.S. drinking water: SciLine has a fact sheet, with sources, that outlines the background of lead in tap…

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    Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI)

    The Neighborhood Atlas is a free mapping tool of the Centers for Health Disparities Research, an institution that’s part of…

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    Economy & taxes

    The intersection of tax policy and health equity This document reflects the content of a Dec. 7, 2017, workshop at…

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    Education & health

    Why Education Matters to Health: Exploring the Causes Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Society and Health (2014) The links between…

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    Environmental hazards and disparities

    ValueofLeadPrevention.org enables policymakers, community leaders and residents to calculate the cost of childhood lead exposure in their state and the…

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    Experts

    Darrell Gaskin, Ph.D. Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health…

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    Food Environment

    The Alliance to End Hunger This umbrella nonprofit group aims to end hunger by encouraging diverse set of organizations to…

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    Fundamental causes of health disparities

    The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has a lot of content and resources dedicated to social determinants of health. It includes…

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    Global issues

    Climate Change 101 (PDF) A primer of what is happening to the earth’s climate and what it means for our…

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    History and Background

    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains a Health Equity portal where users can sign up for the…

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    Implications for Medical Practice

    State Health Equity Toolkit | DNPAO Trends in Unmet Need for Physician and Preventive Services in the United States, 1998-2017…

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    Indicators

    Life expectancy, levels of disability and mental health, prevalence of adverse childhood experiences, immunisation rates, and the proportion of people…

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    Journalism

    Tips for interviewing people with disabilities: Covering medical studies often means interviewing people who live with conditions discussed in a…

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    LGBT health

    NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists Stylebook has free English- and Spanish-language style books to help reporters understand issues related…

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    Maternal health

    With all of the coverage of the dire outcomes black women experience in childbirth, this online tool from the California…

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    Measuring the Problem

    Peterson-Kaiser health system tracker Data comparing US social determinants of health with other countries. Data as of February 2016. Rural…

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    Neighborhoods and Social Networks

    Quantification of Neighborhood-Level Social Determinants of Health in the Continental United States How do social determinants of health vary across…

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    Stress and the allostatic load hypothesis

    NAS Trauma Systems report (2016) This report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine looks at the nation’s…

    • Health Equity

    Veterans

    National Veteran Health Equity Report – A government project by the Veterans Administration, this report by the VA’s Office of…

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    Violent injuries & deaths

    Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research: Part of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, its Center…

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    Women’s health

    SWAN: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation This multi-site, longterm epidemiological study focuses on the health of U.S. women…

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