Journalism Grants

Funding For:

Crisis in Care: The Workforce Exodus Shaping Texas Health Care

Health Care Costs & Quality


Recipient:

The Texas Tribune

Grant Period:

Jun 02, 2025 - Jun 02, 2026

AMOUNT:

$35,000.00

Summary of the Project:

Workforce challenges are straining health systems in communities across the country. The Texas Tribune will explore the complex causes and impacts of Texas’s health care workforce atrophy since 2020, and shed light on possible solutions for the health care sector and state legislatures.

About the Grantee:

The Texas Tribune is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that promotes civic engagement and discourse on public policy, politics, government, and other matters of statewide concern in Texas.


Grantee Publications

January 9, 2026

Texas, facing doctor shortage, eases path for foreign-trained physicians

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Author: Terri Langford

October 7, 2025

$68 million COVID-era federal funding loss and other potential cuts threaten Texas opioid fight

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Author: Stephen Simpson

March 18, 2025

After COVID, Texas is less prepared for the next pandemic

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Author: Eleanor Klibanoff

March 10, 2025

With crumbling public health infrastructure, rural Texas scrambles to respond to measles

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Author: Pooja Salhotra


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July 17, 2025

The 2025 United States Measles Crisis: When Vaccine Hesitancy Meets Reality

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April 2, 2025

Five years after COVID-19: Is Texas better prepared for the next public health crisis?

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