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The California Health Report partners with communities across the state to help solve health equity issues.

The sample student essays that follow reflect the EPT Scoring Guide's criteria.

Our mission is to report from communities that are disproportionately affected by inequality. We partner with communities of color, rural residents, low-income Californians, violence survivors, people with disabilities and many others to listen to their lived experiences and help them share ideas for making our world more equitable. We believe in the power of solutions journalism.

Our reporters have firsthand experience with the issues they report on and greatly value allowing their sources to share their stories. Our coverage has spurred legislative action, and changed conversations — in Sacramento, at community meetings and around dinner tables. The California Health Report was founded in and has been on the forefront of covering health and inequality ever since.

Long before the COVID pandemic brought attention to the fact that some people face much greater health inequalities than others, we have been shining a light on these issues. Our stories are cross-published by regional and national media outlets, translated into Spanish and Chinese, and picked up by public radio. Our newsletters and stories are read by policymakers in Washington, D.

Our fiscal sponsor is Tides Center.

One of those friends was Dan Weintraub, who then worked for the Orange County Register and was a columnist with the Sacramento Bee until

A fourth-generation Californian, Hannah is particularly interested in stories that help make the state more equitable for all who call California home. With an investigative reporting grant, she wrote a cover story about how fracking disproportionately impacts low-income Californians of color. Hannah has also won several awards for her reporting, including a national award she shared with Reporter Claudia Boyd-Barrett for a story about how California programs make it difficult for children with disabilities to access care.

Claudia is a long-time journalist based in Southern California. Her investigative stories on domestic violence and access to mental health care have resulted in legislative and policy changes, on both the state and county level. She is fluent in Spanish.