Healthy Los Angeles

A growing body of research is reinforcing what public health and housing advocates in Los Angeles have long known: losing your home can be hazardous to your health.

With active modes of transportation on the rise in L.A. and across the United States, the public health lens must be taken into account when planning the future of transportation in this city.

For many years communities like Pacoima have been planned and built for us, instead of with us. The effects of the lack of community input are evident: polluting industry next to homes, lack of economic development opportunities, lack of green space, a...

Street vendors can turn food deserts into food havens by bringing fresh fruits and vegetables into communities that lack access to healthy and affordable food.

Los Angeles now has an opportunity to be re-invent what "cool" means for cities across the globe.

A South L.A. corner market re-opened as a healthy food hub that now offers healthy and affordable fruits and vegetables to a community that has limited options to buy fresh produce.

Los Angeles is a city with many health inequities, and where a person lives often determines their health destiny.