The fledgling 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – which has struggled to get sustainable funding from states – got a lifeline of its own last week when the Department of Health and Human Services announced awards of more than $130 million to 51 states and territories to support and expand the national network of 988 call centers.
Author Archives: David Tuller
David Tuller, DrPH, is a senior fellow in public health and journalism at UC Berkeley’s Center for Global Public Health, part of the School of Public Health. He received a masters degree in public health in 2006 and a doctor of public health degree in 2013, both from Berkeley. He was a reporter and editor for ten years at The San Francisco Chronicle and served as health editor at Salon.com. He has written regularly about public health and medical issues for The New York Times, the policy journal Health Affairs, and many other publications.
