Hannah Harris Green
Hannah Harris Green reports on how drugs, health technologies and care systems shape everyday life, with a focus on the gaps between medical evidence, regulation and patient experience. She is an investigative health journalist and regular contributor to The Guardian, where she covers drug policy, mental health and the business of health care. Across her work, she uses primary research, expert interviews and regulatory records to explain complex systems such as drug approval, prescribing habits and emerging digital health tools.
Drug policy, addiction and new therapies
Green’s health coverage repeatedly returns to how drugs are used, misused and regulated, especially in the context of pain, addiction and chronic conditions. She has reported on research suggesting that antidepressants and antipsychotics could serve as alternatives to opioids for certain patients, framing the findings within wider concerns about opioid dependence and prescribing culture. Her work on cannabis examines debates over classifying it as medicine, asking not just whether it will be legally treated as a therapeutic drug but for which conditions and under what evidence standards.
She follows the drug story into everyday settings, for example covering plans for cannabis drinks at a major sports arena and what that experiment implies for public consumption, regulation and normalization of psychoactive substances. Her interest in underexamined compounds extends to reporting on tranquilizers such as medetomidine and the withdrawal symptoms experienced by people who use them, reflecting a harm reduction lens on emerging street drugs.
Green also covers psychedelic therapies, including work on ayahuasca and the compound DMT as potential treatments for depression, situating those stories at the intersection of clinical trials, patient need and regulatory caution.
Mental health, technology and digital harms
A second strand in Green’s reporting tracks how technology and media environments affect mental health, with attention to both individual outcomes and structural responsibility. She has written about lawsuits accusing social media platforms of harming users’ mental health and asked whether design choices make these services addictive, highlighting expert debate over compulsion, responsibility and evidence. Her coverage of screen time focuses on shifting guidance for children, noting that simple time limits are no longer considered sufficient and exploring what more nuanced standards might look like. Green reports on AI chatbots and the risk that they could fuel delusional thinking, using specific case studies and research findings to show how new tools can exacerbate existing vulnerabilities when deployed without guardrails. Across these pieces she connects mental health outcomes to design, policy and corporate behavior, rather than treating distress as an isolated clinical issue.
Public health, cancer and infectious disease
Green’s health beat extends into cancer and infectious disease, where she often focuses on trends that reveal systemic gaps in prevention and treatment.
She has covered data showing colon cancer becoming a leading cause of cancer death among people under 50 in the US, using that shift to interrogate screening recommendations, risk communication and the healthcare system’s response to earlier-onset disease. Her reporting on measles examines both domestic and global dimensions, including stories on how US policy failures contribute to outbreaks and how anti-vaccine rhetoric in one country can undermine efforts to control measles elsewhere. In these pieces she ties individual cases to vaccination policy, political messaging and the international nature of infectious threats. Green also writes about HIV prevention, including work on long-acting drugs such as lenacapavir and the way funding decisions can either expand or restrict access to promising interventions.
When she covers fertility and reproductive health, she scrutinizes how online prescription services present treatments, asking what it means when certain procedures are given special emphasis and how that shapes patient expectations.
Investigative health reporting across outlets
Beyond her work for The Guardian, Green writes across outlets as an independent journalist, which informs the investigative tone of her health coverage. She has been described as an investigative health journalist whose work has received support from multiple reporting funds, underlining the depth of her projects on drug policy and healthcare systems.
Her experience as a writer and audio producer includes reporting for publications that cover science, technology and global affairs, and she is known for using primary sources to unpack complex regulatory and scientific investigations. Earlier in her career she wrote on South Asia, human rights and media, and explored themes of identity and social justice; that background now surfaces in health stories that connect clinical issues to inequality, stigma and structural power. Across platforms, she presents herself as a journalist focused on health, science and drugs, emphasizing granular topics and the real-world consequences of policy decisions. For communications teams, this means her interest lies less in promotional health news and more in evidence-rich stories about how systems work, where they fail and how they affect people on the ground.
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Alexandra Frost
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Alexandra Pattillo
Alexandra Pattillo is a freelance journalist who pairs rigorous health and science reporting with intimate accounts of patients’ lives. She covers health, science and wellness for the BBC and other major outlets, including National Geographic, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Outside, CNN and Inverse. Her beat includes eating disorders, women’s health, perinatal mental health, brain health, youth sports, concussion, long-term Covid symptoms, attention, habits and behavioral science. She reports on emerging treatments such as psychedelic-assisted therapy for anorexia, testing evidence, safety and relapse risk. She explains complex research in plain language and examines how it shapes everyday choices. Her reporting uses in-depth interviews with patients, families, clinicians, researchers and coaches. Through the BBC’s Health Gap column, she also covers stigma, unequal access to care and gaps between lived experience and standard medical pathways.