Trenton Daniel

Trenton Daniel

Senior Reporter, Healthbeat

Trenton Daniel is a Senior Reporter for Healthbeat covering New York. Previously, he spent almost 14 years at The Associated Press, most recently as a reporter on the global investigations team using public records to break news and bolster the AP report. Trenton started at AP as its Haiti correspondent, in 2011, writing about reconstruction efforts following the 2010 earthquake and a subsequent cholera outbreak. Before AP, he spent almost eight years as a staff writer at The Miami Herald and reported extensively from Haiti, Iraq and throughout the Caribbean. Trenton also covered his share of hurricanes, homicides and zoning meetings. He lives in Brooklyn and, when not working, is probably training for a marathon by running an unhealthy number of laps inside Prospect Park.

Rates of some childhood immunizations in New York City are starting to lag. A City Council plan tasks the health department and schools with educating parents about the importance and safety of the shots.

Concerned by a history of backlogs, the city council is looking to cut red tape for the health department, which will have to do background checks on new providers.

The $2.51 billion spending plan includes increases for early childhood initiatives and a new public health lab - but less funding to fight communicable diseases, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis.