covid19 detroit

How one Bangladeshi family’s lifeline of support was disrupted by the pandemic

At 62 years old, Shelly Begum, like many other Bangladeshi women, has to balance being both caretaker for her family…

3 years ago

Tag-team approach to health care reaches older adults in Bangladeshi community during COVID-19 pandemic

How health care providers battled language barriers and other hurdles to treat and serve older patients in the Bangladeshi community.

3 years ago

COVID-19 brings renewed urgency to the fight over Detroit’s air quality

Whatever success Detroit has reining in the health impacts from air pollution in a post-COVID world will follow on some…

3 years ago

How COVID-19 exposed Detroit’s public health inequities

COVID-19 is a public health crisis on its own -- but the pandemic has also revealed the systemic health factors…

4 years ago

Denise Fair, top Detroit health official, on making tough calls for a city in crisis

How Denise Fair, the top health official in Detroit, makes tough calls during the COVID-19 crisis -- while trying not…

4 years ago

COVID-19 exposed Detroit’s water insecurity. Activists fear ‘mass shutoffs’ will return

“Once again, there’s always these ridiculous obstacles for Black, brown and poor people to be able to access the supposed…

4 years ago