NEWLY PUBLISHED STATISTICS on Latino health care in California reveal obstacles to care for 40% of the state’s population.

The California Health Care Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit that works to improve the health care system, recently released the 2025 California Latino Health Almanac. It offers a snapshot of demographics, health trends and disparities among Latino residents. Research contributors and public health advocates held a webinar Wednesday to discuss findings.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.