Nada Hassanein

Nada Hassanein

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Nada Hassanein is a health care reporter for Stateline covering state policy decisions with a focus on inequities. Throughout her journalism career, Nada has sought to shed light on underreported issues affecting diverse communities. Previously, she was USA Today's national environmental and health inequities reporter. Her in-depth reporting included coverage of rural and maternal health inequities, systemic racism and health, environmental and climate justice, and disparities in health outcomes and health care access. Prior, she was a social issues reporter at the Tallahassee Democrat, writing features on immigration, health and domestic violence.

Community groups lose HIV-prevention money as feds redirect dollars to states
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Community groups lose HIV-prevention money as feds redirect dollars to states

Oct 01, 2026
Nada Hassanein
Nearly 100 community-based organizations have lost their federal HIV-prevention grants this week as the Trump administration redirects dollars to state and local health departments. The funding change represents a departure from the decades-old national HIV prevention strategy favored by most...
Medical groups, patients sue Trump administration over Medicaid work requirements
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Medical groups, patients sue Trump administration over Medicaid work requirements

Sep 21, 2026
Nada Hassanein
Medicaid enrollees from five states and leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit Friday challenging new Medicaid work requirements. The broad tax and spending law that President Donald Trump signed last summer, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, established...
Rural women who got C-sections more likely to be prescribed opioids at home, study finds
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Rural women who got C-sections more likely to be prescribed opioids at home, study finds

Sep 18, 2026
Nada Hassanein
Women giving birth in rural communities were more likely than peers in urban areas to receive oral opioid prescriptions for pain upon leaving the hospital after a cesarean section, according to a new analysis of data from half a million...
Tribes hit hard by wildfires face health effects, cultural losses
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Tribes hit hard by wildfires face health effects, cultural losses

Sep 18, 2026
Nada Hassanein
Neighbors across the Colville Tribes communities in Washington state knew Matilda Bob’s log home as the “rainbow house,” for its brightly painted exterior. Now it’s gone. Sparked by a lightning strike in mid-July, the Kaiser Canyon Fire destroyed Bob’s home...
Doctors say children of immigrants are missing healthcare
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Doctors say children of immigrants are missing healthcare

Sep 15, 2026
Nada Hassanein
Four in 10 pediatricians reported kids in immigrant families are avoiding coming in for healthcare out of concerns around immigration status, according to a new survey published Tuesday. More than 1,600 pediatricians responded between April and June to the survey...
States, cities sue Trump administration over new green card restrictions
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States, cities sue Trump administration over new green card restrictions

Sep 14, 2026
Nada Hassanein
States, cities and counties filed a pair of lawsuits Monday challenging new federal rules that will allow immigrants’ use of safety net resources to be taken into account for green cards and other applications to stay in or enter the...
Mixed-status immigrant households expected to lose benefits under new public charge rule
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Mixed-status immigrant households expected to lose benefits under new public charge rule

Sep 11, 2026
Nada Hassanein
New rules going into effect next week allow immigrants’ enrollment in safety net resources to be taken into account for lawful immigration status applications, the latest in the Trump administration’s immigration overhaul. The rules will have wide implications for mixed-status...
Immigration activity is taking a toll on children’s health, doctors say
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Immigration activity is taking a toll on children’s health, doctors say

Sep 02, 2026
Nada Hassanein
In Minnesota, an elementary schooler has gone without surgery to treat a rare, life-threatening neck infection that isn’t responding to antibiotics. Another young child can’t use their hearing aids because the family ran out of batteries and hasn’t come to...
LGBTQ+ adults more likely to miss or forgo healthcare, survey finds
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LGBTQ+ adults more likely to miss or forgo healthcare, survey finds

Aug 31, 2026
Nada Hassanein
LGBTQ+ adults are more likely than other adults to miss healthcare appointments due to cost or other reasons — with a third reporting their health worsened as a result, according to a new survey by health policy research group KFF...
Federal agency blocks Medicaid coverage of kids’ gender-affirming care
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Federal agency blocks Medicaid coverage of kids’ gender-affirming care

Aug 12, 2026
Nada Hassanein
A new federal rule will end Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming hormone therapies and procedures for kids under age 18. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Tuesday a rule that prohibits state Medicaid plans from covering gender-affirming procedures for...
New drug-resistant fungal disease increases among vulnerable patients
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New drug-resistant fungal disease increases among vulnerable patients

Aug 10, 2026
Nada Hassanein
Twenty-eight states this year have reported over 3,500 cases of patients sick with the drug-resistant yeast candida auris, which can cause severe illness and is often reported in healthcare facilities. As of Aug. 1, 3,544 clinical cases of candida auris...
Courts rule Trump administration can’t cancel $22B in climate grants
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Courts rule Trump administration can’t cancel $22B in climate grants

Aug 05, 2026
Nada Hassanein
Two courts this week dealt blows to the Trump administration’s attempts to withdraw clean energy and climate grants. A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency could not terminate $20 billion in clean energy grants awarded...