This article is meant to help trans, non-binary, and gender diverse people (and their families!) explore and understand more about your benefits and coverage. You’ll find tips and tricks for finding supportive primary and mental health care, get help with understanding your options for gender-affirming care, and encouragement as you navigate a messy system.
I worked with our UX research team to understand what our members needed and wanted in a partner referral. Before writing referrals, I combined our research findings with behavioral science principles to create content guidelines that anyone in the company could use to develop better referrals and recommendations.
YLabs works with young people in the US to more deeply understand how they process, prioritize, and seek care for their own mental health. In 2020, we spoke with young people in the San Francisco Bay Area and Atlanta to explore new strategies for delivering messages about mental healthcare to youth.
As we celebrate Universal Health Coverage Day and raise our voices to advocate for meaningful investment in health systems that work for everyone, we urge innovators and local decision-makers to consider a solution that provides a point of entry and reaches young people where they are at; digital self-care platforms.
Researchers at Berkeley Media Studies Group set out to highlight the connection between two critical health and social justice issues: racism and trauma.
I sat down with BMSG's head of research to discuss what aspects of media coverage have changed — and stayed the same — since Columbine.
Abortion in El Salvador is illegal under any circumstance and women who experience miscarriages have been imprisoned for 'abortion-related crimes’ for 30 years. But advocates aren't giving up.
Policies intended to curb the nations ongoing opioid crisis are causing unintended consequences for patients with chronic pain.
Julia Clarke has spent her life on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. What’s her secret to bridging the geographical and political divide?
Winter wedding season is upon us. Here are three ideas to help your gift stand out.
Since the Zika virus could be spread by mosquitos and sexual transmission, it presented a unique opportunity to integrate a public health approach into the disaster response. With the support of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, Lauryn Claassen traveled to El Salvador to find out if Zika impacted sex education in El Salvador.
A personal account of the toll that the daily violence takes on the people of El Salvador.
Pulitzer fellows Lauryn Claassen and Madeline Bishop spoke with Carlos Javier Ortiz, a director, cinematographer, and documentary photographer. His Pulitzer-supported photojournalism work illustrates the daily toll of gun violence in Chicago.
By the time we pulled into Hope, Alaska, we were out of ideas. We were halfway through our trip, but only 30 miles from where we had started.
In 2017, there are no federal standards for sex and reproductive health education in the U.S., and although their efficacy has been disproven, Title V allocates tax dollars that teach abstinence-only sex education programs.
The park ranger extended his hand, took the worthless rocks we had collected from a parking lot, and zip-tied them into a clear, plastic bag. It turns out theft is a huge problem in the Petrified Forest, and they’re not taking any chances.
