Lauren Bavis
Digital editor, Side Effects and WFYILauren Bavis is a digital editor based at WFYI in Indianapolis. She was part of the Side Effects Public Media team named Indiana’s Journalists of the Year in 2019 by the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists. With Jake Harper she co-hosted Sick, a podcast about what goes wrong in the places meant to keep us healthy. Bavis graduated from Towson University and moved to Indiana in 2012, where she began her career as a newspaper reporter. She previously reported on health and social services and was the digital projects and social media editor for The Herald-Times in Bloomington. She can be reached at lbavis@wfyi.org.
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Indiana lawmakers recognize that doulas can improve maternal outcomes. So, they passed new laws and dispensed millions of dollars in grants to expand access to doula services with no real progress. -
In 2022, Side Effects Public Media’s reporters and collaborators exposed health inequities and followed the top health stories of the year. -
Side Effects Public Media will be hosting virtual listening sessions on substance use, addiction and recovery. -
The job of a correctional officer is to keep people safe. But inside prisons across the U.S., allegations of sexual abuse are common. The latest national data shows nearly 6,000 reports of staff sexual misconduct in 2018. -
People who have threatened to harm themselves can be placed on what’s known as suicide watch, where they’re constantly monitored by a mental health professional. But in some prisons, suicide watch works differently. -
Many U.S. colleges have lecture halls named after respected scientists who also promoted racial theories or practices that are now rejected. And increasingly, their names are being removed. -
At a news conference on Aug. 26, Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. Kris Box said it’s crucial for Hoosiers to participate in contact tracing. “So If… -
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca announced Wednesday morning that its COVID-19 vaccine trial is on hold after a volunteer in the UK had an unexplained… -
Update, Sept. 9, 2020: AstraZeneca announced that its COVID-19 vaccine trial is on hold. Read more.The Indiana University School of Medicine announced it…
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On a Friday evening in late June, Liliana Quintero received a call from one of the Spanish interpreters working at a COVID-19 testing site in Goshen,…
