Christine Herman
Managing Editor, Side Effects Public MediaChristine Herman is the managing editor of Side Effects Public Media. In her prior role as health reporter at Illinois Public Media, she reported extensively on mental health and access to health care for vulnerable populations, reaching national regional and national audiences through partnerships with Side Effects, NPR and KFF Health News. Christine is a 2018-19 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism fellow and a board member of the Association of Health Care Journalists. She got her start in public radio as a founding producer for Illinois Public Media's statewide talk show, The 21st. Christine earned her Ph.D. in chemistry and master's in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Read this article in English here.RANTOUL – En las afueras de Rantoul, en el centro-este de Illinois, unos 100 trabajadores agrícolas migrantes están…
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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Barbara Allen’s life became more complicated overnight.Allen, 39, lives in Springfield, Illinois, where she cares for…
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On the outskirts of Rantoul, in east-central Illinois, about 100 migrant farmworkers are living at an old hotel in a sleepy part of town.Every day at the…
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Over the past decade, more than 100 hospitals in rural parts of America — including at least 20 in the Midwest — have closed.In some cases, the shuttered…
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Colleges are rolling out a dizzying diversity of COVID-19 containment plans for students and staff. Some have no plans for routine testing, while others aim to test everyone on campus twice a week.
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Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, 28-year-old Mayra Ramirez was working as a paralegal for an immigration law firm in Chicago. She enjoyed walking her dogs…
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As universities prepare to welcome students back to campus for the fall semester, some are counting on widespread COVID-19 testing to help clamp down on…
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Maricel Mendoza is familiar with the work migrant and seasonal farmworkers do. Growing up, her family traveled from Texas to central Illinois every year…
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Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago announced Thursday they’ve performed the first successful double lung transplant on a COVID-19…
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Even without a global pandemic, dentistry is inherently riskier than many other medical professions.That’s because dentists and hygienists spend a lot of…