Meet the Team

Arielle "Kai" Taramasco

Web Producer

Arielle (Kai) Taramasco joins the KPBS newsroom after covering local and international news as a broadcast journalist in San Diego. She began her career interning as a surf photographer with Zak Noyle in her native Hawaii before studying abroad with Semester At Sea. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in multimedia journalism from Point Loma Nazarene University. Her work has since been featured in Honolulu Star Advertiser, FreeSurf Magazine and The Buttonwood Tree. She’s also won an award for creative media from the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists.

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Health

Remembering David Nabarro: 'a great champion of global health and health equity'

Yuki Noguchi

That's how the head of the World Health Organization paid tribute to Nabarro's lifelong public health leadership. A physician, Nabarro was a leading voice in the effort to quash the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health

PEPFAR escaped the rescission ax. But where does it stand?

Gabrielle Emanuel

Founded by George W. Bush, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief was taken out of the list of agencies that lost previously pledged funds. But its future is far from certain.
Health

Get ready, Brazil. The 'good mosquitoes' are coming

Ari Daniel

Scientists are driving around in white Chevys, releasing thousands of specially engineered mosquitoes from tubes — part of a pioneering project to reduce the spread of dengue, a terrible disease.
Health

Even megastars like Venus Williams get the health insurance blues

Selena Simmons-Duffin

In the U.S., as nowhere else, health insurance and employment are deeply connected. And that means confusion can snare even elite athletes.
International

Taiwanese voters reject a bid to remove lawmakers from a China-friendly party

The Associated Press

The independence-leaning ruling Democratic Progressive Party won the last presidential election, but the China-friendly Nationalists and the Taiwan People's Party have enough seats to form a majority bloc.
Science & Technology

Primate pet ownership fuels a brutal industry. This bill could slow it down

Stephanie O'Neill

For most pet primates in the United States, life is marked by chronic stress, malnutrition and illness — if they survive at all. A bill in Congress would aim to make ownership of captive primates illegal in all 50 states.