Susan Murphy
Health ReporterSusan Murphy is a former health reporter for KPBS, providing in-depth coverage of a variety of issues that impact San Diego County and the Imperial Valley — from infectious diseases and mental health to health care policy and medical breakthroughs. Susan started working in the KPBS Newsroom in 2003. She graduated from San Diego State University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.
RECENT STORIES ON KPBS
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The University of California’s campus safety plan was designed to calm protests by limiting law enforcement. Yet as tensions grew to violence against a UCLA student encampment erected in protest over the war in Gaza, many are criticizing law enforcement’s initial lack of intervention.
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San Diego County released its $8.48 billion recommended budget for the next fiscal year Thursday, an increase of $317.7 million, or 3.9%, over the 2023-24 adopted budget.
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Coming Soon! Premieres Mondays, May 6 - June 3, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Told in present tense and full of unexpected bombshells, this is the story of a family that has lived under intense public scrutiny their entire lives. Prince Harry recently described it as akin to living in "The Truman Show." Like most families, the royal family has had to deal with crises – feuds, heartbreak, sibling rivalries, affairs, divorces and deaths. But they also have had to face assassination attempts, kidnappings, tabloid scandals and terrorist bombs.
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Canada has one of the world's lowest rates of tuberculosis. Yet this deadly disease is surging among Indigenous people in this icy, remote part of the country.
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A new documentary, Hip-Hop and the White House, considers rap's association with presidential politics — and in so doing, reveals a persistent misunderstanding of how both operate.
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This weekend in local arts and culture: Poetic Justice's self-portraiture and poetry exhibit; free museums; a play about cooking; AAPI fashion; Puerto Rican LGBTQ+ theater; ballet meets the stock market crash and more.
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- Trump dice que utilizaría a la Guardia Nacional para deportar inmigrantes si vuelve a la presidencia
- San Diego's senior population to increase in coming years, raising concerns for elder orphans
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- Island life for these unhoused San Diegans means few police — and many hazards