Indianapolis-based research center SAVI compiled data to map central Indiana neighborhoods where people may be at higher risk of developing severe cases of COVID-19.

There is already a $16.5 million commitment from local philanthropic groups, including $15 million from the Lilly Endowment.

WFYI's Taylor Bennett asks Director of Epidemiology Education at the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Thomas Duszynski for more information about the coronavirus and the efforts to contain it.

Polis Center researchers tracked food accessibility trends and found 10 percent more people live in a food desert than did in 2016.

The number of grocery stores in Indianapolis has increased in the past year, but so has the number of people living in food deserts, according to a new report from SAVI.

About one in every five Marion County residents live in a food desert -- an estimated 196,000 people in the county.

The federal government granted states a total of $11 billion in 2017-2018. Indiana received $158 million of that money.

A sharp increase in the number of hepatitis C cases related to intravenous drug use led Marion County to seek a syringe exchange program.

The study was completed by the Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine and the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health.

A recently published paper finds Hoosier firefighters are 20 percent more likely due to malignant cancers.