Alaa Mostafa
Health ReporterAlaa Mostafa is an audio journalist and producer based in Oakland, CA. Her work has appeared on This American Life, Reveal with The Center for Investigative Reporting, KQED, AKPM, and within the Oakland Museum of California. Alaa is an alum of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and a former AIR New Voices fellow. She is KALW’s health reporter.
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SEIU Doctor’s United announced that they aim to recruit 10,000 senior physicians across in the UC system in the coming months. -
Bay Area Congresswoman Lateefah Simon helped secure $1,039,000 in federal funding for the Department of Violence Prevention. -
California health advocates and state officials introduced two bills this week that aim to restore Medi-Cal enrollment for the state’s undocumented residents. -
CrosscurrentsMarriage and family therapist Sinead Smyth discusses the characteristics that research shows are often present in healthier romantic relationships. And Bay Area residents around Oakland’s Lake Merritt share their thoughts on romance. -
UC service workers and hospital technicians led by AFSCME strike across 10 UC campuses and their affiliate medical centers statewide. -
CrosscurrentsThese lifelong skaters want to teach you how to skateboard for free. -
CrosscurrentsPharmacies are shuttering around the Bay Area. Today we hear about the middlemen who are partly to blame. -
Walgreens will be closing one of its five remaining Oakland stores tomorrow. Earlier this week, it shuttered another one, on east 18th Street east of Lake Merritt. -
This story most recently aired in the June 21, 2023 episode of Crosscurrents.The Bay Area has the highest concentration of self-identified LGBT adults in…
