Persevering with its growth into audio storytelling, KFF’s Kaiser Well being Information examines the rising suicide charges amongst Black, Hispanic and different communities of coloration in its first collaboration with Science Friday, the award-winning producer of high-quality, reliable science information and academic programming.
The storytelling highlights tragic instances like that of 19-year-old Jamal Clay, who killed himself in his household’s storage in Could 2020. Rafiah Maxie, Clay’s mother and herself a social employee, recounts her difficulties in getting her son the mental-health care he wanted and her efforts since his dying to assist others affected by violence, suicide and trauma in her neighborhood outdoors Chicago.
Reported by KHN correspondent Aneri Pattani, the bundle consists of Pattani’s digital story, and a radio phase airing in the present day with longtime SciFri visitor host John Dankosky and voices of households and specialists. Of their dialog, Dankosky and Pattani focus on socioeconomic elements linked to suicide threat and the community-level fixes which may reverse its rise amongst folks of coloration within the U.S.
KHN’s preliminary collaboration with Science Friday builds on a robust custom of audio journalism — together with KHN’s longtime partnership with NPR and dozens of its member stations to report on well being and well being coverage points from throughout the nation, and the crowdsourced investigative sequence with NPR and CBS, “Invoice of the Month.”
KHN’s household of podcasts consists of What the Well being?, An Arm and a Leg and The place It Hurts, a co-production with St. Louis Public Radio. In different latest audio collaborations, KHN has partnered with This American Life and Reveal from the Heart for Investigative Reporting.
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About KFF and KHN
KHN (Kaiser Well being Information) is a nationwide newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about well being points. Along with Coverage Evaluation and Polling, KHN is likely one of the three main working packages at KFF (Kaiser Household Basis). KFF is an endowed nonprofit group offering data on well being points to the nation.
About Science Friday
The Science Friday Initiative, a nonprofit, is devoted to growing the general public’s entry to science and scientific data. WNYC Studios distributes the radio present, which airs on over 400 public radio stations throughout the U.S. The initiative produces a sweeping array of instructional and entertaining science experiences together with movies, podcasts and stay occasions that serve lots of of hundreds of lifelong learners yearly.