MARIN COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH officials are urging families and health care providers to maintain strong newborn vaccination practices following last week’s vote by a federal advisory panel to end the universal recommendation for hepatitis B vaccination for all infants at birth. In response, Marin County has launched a new online hub with vaccine fact sheets, […]
Author Archives: Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News
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.
