Bryan Walsh
Bryan Walsh connects health to the wider story of humanity’s future, using data-rich, solutions-focused reporting to explain how big risks can be reduced and why long-term trends often look better than people assume. As senior editorial director at Vox, he oversees the Future Perfect and climate teams and writes the Good News newsletter, bringing a consistent lens of evidence-based optimism to topics like dementia, mortality, and longevity. His work treats health not as isolated medical news but as a central piece of global risk, policy, and technological change.
Future Perfect and existential risk
Walsh leads Vox’s Future Perfect project, an ambitious solutions journalism effort that focuses on the most important problems facing the world now and in the future. Future Perfect covers catastrophic and existential risks such as climate change, nuclear war, and major pandemics, alongside the policies and technologies that might prevent them. In that role, Walsh oversees coverage that links public health to broader systemic threats, framing issues like pandemics and global disease burden as part of the same continuum as climate and technological risk. His Future Perfect work emphasizes both the scale of these dangers and practical pathways to reduce them, reflecting a clear interest in interventions that can measurably improve long-term outcomes.
Good News: optimistic health and longevity
Alongside his editorial leadership, Walsh writes Vox’s Good News newsletter, a weekly digest of “remarkable, optimistic things happening all around us right now,” with a strong emphasis on scientific and public health advances. In this format he highlights concrete ways people can benefit from cutting-edge health research, including a piece breaking down four everyday things people can do to extend their lives. He also writes explanatory features such as a Future Perfect article on the US death rate reaching a record low and why there is reason to hope that trend will continue, using national mortality data to show how policy, medicine, and behavior change can shift population-level outcomes. Across these stories, Walsh’s through-line is clear: he looks for rigorously supported good news, translating complex demographic and medical trends into plain language while stressing that progress is real but dependent on sustained, evidence-based action.
Public health, aging, and prevention
Walsh’s health coverage often focuses on aging, chronic disease, and the potential to prevent or delay decline through modifiable risk factors. In his Future Perfect piece on dementia, he explains that age-specific dementia rates in affluent countries have fallen by roughly 13 percent per decade since the late 1980s, linking that trend to changes in blood pressure and cholesterol management, lower smoking rates, and rising educational attainment. He draws heavily on major commissions and large cohort studies to show how lifestyle and midlife health influence later-life cognitive outcomes, emphasizing that a significant share of dementia cases could in theory be preventable or postponable. The article details practical measures—controlling vascular risk factors, staying physically active, addressing hearing and vision loss, continuing education, and moderating alcohol—that together form an “anti-dementia action list,” and situates vaccine research on shingles as another promising line of protection. This combination of epidemiological context, clear preventive steps, and nuanced discussion of emerging evidence typifies his approach to health: analytic, grounded in large-scale data, and focused on what can still be done to improve trajectories.
Editorial leadership across climate, technology, and global philanthropy
Beyond his own bylines, Walsh plays a broad editorial role at Vox, overseeing Future Perfect and climate coverage while also engaging with technology and world news teams. He describes his remit as spanning emerging technology, global philanthropy, climate change, health, artificial intelligence, and podcasts, reflecting a portfolio that connects scientific and technological change to humanitarian and policy outcomes. Before joining Vox, he worked as a future-focused correspondent at a major digital outlet, writing a regular newsletter on emerging technologies and long-term trends, and earlier reported on environment, energy, and global health for a leading news magazine, including foreign correspondence and climate reporting. That background informs his current work: he tends to situate specific health stories—like dementia research or shifts in death rates—within wider questions about how societies allocate resources, how philanthropy and public policy can target global suffering, and how technology can either mitigate or amplify risk. For health-related stories, this means Walsh is particularly attuned to cross-cutting issues such as prevention, inequality, and the intersection of medical advances with climate and demographic change.
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Aislinn Antrim
Aislinn Antrim is an associate editorial director at Pharmacy Times and a journalist who connects clinical advances, regulation, and the changing role of pharmacists. She writes pharmacy-centered health coverage on chronic disease therapeutics, specialty and oncology care, workforce pressures, and advocacy. Her reporting explains FDA actions, policy shifts, drug pipelines, and the real-world effects of new evidence on patient care and pharmacy practice. She often uses interviews and expert conversations to show how pharmacists improve adherence, manage side effects, navigate access and benefits, and coordinate care with prescribers. She also covers burnout, staffing strain, and the future of pharmacy practice, with an eye on how policy and economics shape work at the dispenser.
Alex Cabrero
Alex Cabrero is an Emmy award-winning KSL TV reporter who covers where health, safety and community life meet, always focused on how decisions and events affect everyday people. He has been with KSL since 2004, bringing long experience in breaking news, public service coverage and human-centered features. His beat includes public health, emergency response, technology, local infrastructure, environment and science, framed through community well-being and resilience. He reports on issues like mental health initiatives, law enforcement staffing, environmental hazards, rescues, wildfire detection tools, land-use fights and scientific discoveries, making technical and policy details clear for a general audience. He also produces many positive, everyday-life features on families, veterans, farmers, sports and local traditions. His style is direct and conversational, often built around a central person or family whose experience carries the story across TV, digital and social platforms.
Allison Palmer
Allison Palmer stands out for turning complex microbiome and brain-health research into clear, service stories tied to everyday habits. She covers health, wellness and lifestyle topics for The Sacramento Bee, focusing on emerging trends that help readers build positive, sustainable routines. Her reporting on the gut microbiome and healthy aging uses vivid case studies, including a rare supercentenarian, to connect diet, bacterial communities and longevity to daily eating choices. Another strand of her work examines oral bacteria and brain health, linking gum infections to changes in brain tissue and to simple oral-care practices. Since 2024, her wellness coverage has appeared across the McClatchy network, alongside pieces on technology, travel, lifestyle and commerce. She favors reported explainers with direct takeaways, keeps scientific detail intact, and strips away jargon to help readers build realistic long-term habits.
Alyssa Kelly
Alyssa Kelly reports on health and emotional local stories that show how everyday experiences shape people’s sense of safety and wellbeing. They work in the digital newsroom at TV6 & FOX UP, contributing text and video pieces on community life and public interest topics. Their beat centers on health and safety in ordinary settings, especially outdoors, and on animal and family stories tied to wellbeing and memory. They cover issues like tick exposure during routine park visits and long-term pet disappearances and reunions, using specific details, clear timelines, and direct quotes to make the stakes feel immediate and personal. Kelly’s headlines often foreground quoted phrases from families and pet owners, giving their reporting a conversational, human-centered tone. They also collaborate with other reporters on health and safety stories that connect individual cases to wider public concerns.