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2010 White House Correspondents’ Association Edgar A. Poe award

For four-part newspaper series (a CHJ fellowship project) I co-authored with BANG reporter Sandy Kleffman called “Shortened Lives: Where You Live Matters,” on why life expectancies vary so dramatically between nearby neighborhoods.

Suzanne Bohan's Blog
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This vital new health atlas offers fresh look at how place shapes health
The Neighborhood Atlas gives journalists an intriguing new tool to visualize how social... more »
posted 07/13/18
Amid broader view of forces shaping health, access to credit and savings plays a key role
In low-income neighborhoods beset by predatory lending and check-cashing hubs, options for... more »
posted 02/05/18
Live chat now on mammogram guidelines
Join Dr. Robert Smith with the American Cancer Society and Dr. Chris Flowers with UCSF to discuss... more »
posted 02/23/10

Suzanne Bohan's Work
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Lesson: Shortened Lives: The Backstory

Two journalists offer tips for your reporting from their award-winning series on the striking gap in health and life expectancies between rich and poor neighborhoods.

Project: Shortened Lives: Where You Live Matters

The "Shortened Lives: Where You Live Matters" project, produced by staff writers Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman, ran in 2009 as a four-part series in the Contra Costa Times and the Oakland Tribune, now-defunct daily newspapers in Northern California .

Project: Day I: Three East Bay ZIP codes, life-and-death disparities
This story was produced as part of a larger project led by Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman, participants in the  Other stories in this series include: