Texas Community Health News (TCHN) works with local news organizations to produce journalism that illuminates public health topics and builds resilient communities.

Our work is free to republish. Learn about our team and how to republish our content.

Our first newsletter

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the TCHN newsletter. We focus on public health issues in Texas, providing stories and visuals that are designed to be republished as is or localized to include community-specific information.

New report: Baby Boxes make it safer for moms in crisis to surrender babies

Texas was the first state in the nation to enact a Safe Haven law, providing a way for moms to surrender a baby they could not care for. Now, more than two decades after the original law, an innovative new tool can make it safer to surrender an infant. Read the report.

Simple republishing

Our visualization library and county profiles include localized charts on everything from race and education to drug-related deaths and diabetes rates.

You can republish our reports or add visualizations to your stories with just a few clicks.

Need help or want training? Email dcarter@txstate.edu to setup a session.

Journalism ethics and credible data

Credibility is a journalist’s currency, and oiur team includes journalists with almost 100 years of collective experience. Our data contains more than 100 public health variables collected from state and federal agencies along with careful documentation. Download our dataset and start exploring.

Texas Community Health News is a program of Texas State University's Translational Health Research Center, in coordination with the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. All the content we produce follows the Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics. a