Anna Almendrala is a Senior Reporter for HuffPost. She was born in Manila, Philippines and grew up in New Zealand and California. She graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 2006 with a double major in Rhetoric and Spanish and has previously worked for Sojourners and Brave New Films. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles. Anna can be reached at annaa@huffpost.com.
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Most Young People Have No Idea When Fertility Begins To Decline
Everyone agrees they should start trying for a baby before it gets hard. But, as shown by a recent survey, no one knows when that is.
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6 Signs You Were Raised By A Narcissist
Once you figure this out, a whole lot of other things will start to make sense.
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Post-Ebola America: How We're Still Responding To The Outbreak, One Year Later
We're never going to be the same again.
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One Year Later, U.S. Nurses Feel Unprepared For The 'Next Ebola'
You'd be surprised at how long it takes to get new protection laws on the books.
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How U.S. Hospitals Are Defending Themselves Against The Next Big Outbreak
Here's what's different about our health care system after Ebola.
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If Ebola Hits Again, This State Is Doing Everything Right
Minnesota leads the way when it comes to putting the "public" back in public health.
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This Is What The Average Gun Owner Looks Like In America
After a shooting in Charleston, South Carolina claimed nine lives, President Barack Obama called for the nation to come to terms with the fact that no other advanced country in the world suffers mass shootings as frequently as the U.S. It won’t be until we acknowledge this basic truth, he said, that we’ll realize we have the power to put an end to gun violence. In a first step toward understanding who the typical American gun owner is, as well as the role guns play in their lives, she conducted a nationally representative online survey of 4,000 U.S. adults in 2013. The findings, published Monday in the journal Injury Prevention, reveal a wide range of gun ownership rates across the country as well as the profile of an average gun owner in America.