Health Journalistsin the UK

Alex Storey is a journalist at LBC whose work is driven by specific cases that test professional conduct and accountability in health and the public sector. He covers health as his main beat, focusing on the point where individual decisions by clinicians or officials meet public trust in institutions. His reporting is incident-first and case-led, using concrete episodes to show how rules, ethics and policy work in real life. Recent pieces include a disciplinary case where a nurse was struck off after linking a patient’s cancer to Covid jabs, and coverage of civil servants being “paid to play Grand Theft Auto” as “lived experience” training. Across these stories, he examines how professionals, regulators and officials explain their decisions, and what that reveals about trust, responsibility and the standards expected of people in positions of authority.

Alexandra Thompson is an assistant news editor focused on health who treats health claims as hypotheses to be tested rather than messages to be repeated. She works at New Scientist, combining editing with frontline reporting on ageing brains, cognitive health, chronic illness, contested treatments and infectious disease. Her beat centres on how neuroscience and psychology intersect with everyday health choices and on how scientific findings translate into real-world outcomes for people living with illness. She examines lifestyle advice, rehabilitation programmes and outbreak guidance against current evidence, clarifying risk without overstating it and giving space to controversy without sensationalising it. Alongside written news she appears in audio and video formats, bringing the same clear, news-driven approach to live discussions and helping shape the daily health agenda while keeping a tight focus on evidence and impact.

Alice Wilkinson investigates how everyday habits, products and routines shape sleep and long-term wellbeing, using test-driven health features to separate hype from real benefit. She holds a senior role on The Telegraph’s health features team, writing and shaping consumer-focused coverage that blends personal trial with clear expert evidence. Her core beat is sleep as a practical, solvable part of daily life, from detailed comparisons of magnesium supplements to service pieces on how sleeping position affects health over time. She treats supplements as a crowded, over-claimed market that demands careful testing and clear-eyed reporting. Alongside long-form features she writes weekly health desk dispatches on sleep, stress and concentration. Across her work she combines substantial self-testing, specialist insight and plain, unfussy prose to give readers measurable, realistic changes they can make.

Ally Head connects performance-focused fitness reporting with women’s health, sustainability and relationships, using her own endurance training and health history to stress-test trends against expert guidance. She is Senior Health, Sustainability and Relationships Editor at Marie Claire UK, where she shapes the health agenda across training, wellbeing and conscious living and writes and commissions news, topical features and SEO-led long-form pieces. A ten-time marathoner and Boston-qualifying runner, she focuses on structured, realistic training plans, strength and conditioning for women who run, and performance longevity. Her women’s health work centres on hormones, chronic conditions and fact versus fiction wellness claims. She also covers sustainability as conscious living and relationships, mental resilience and lifestyle features, favouring plain language, lived experience, specialist commentary and clear, repeatable routines. She has previously produced similar content for Women’s Health, Stylist, Glamour and Grazia.

Amber Middleton writes health stories that turn new research into practical takeaways. She is a health, fitness and wellness journalist, and she writes health news and features for BBC Science Focus Magazine as well as freelance work. Her beat covers diet, longevity, mental wellbeing, brain health, women’s health and ageing. She often uses clear, plain language and keeps causal claims close to the data. Her work focuses on specific findings, dose ranges and what they mean for everyday choices, from flavanols in fruit and vegetables to lifestyle shifts that can reduce disease risk and improve quality of life.

Anish Vij is a consumer health and medical news journalist whose stories centre on expert warnings, subtle symptoms and the lived experience of patients and families. He works on the LADbible news team and also writes across sister title UNILAD. His published bio notes advanced training in multimedia journalism and recognition in the GG2 Young Journalist of the Year awards. His beat focuses on everyday risks and overuse, from doctors’ warnings about routine changes such as the autumn clock change to appeals for early detection of cancers and the dangers of vaping or common medicines. He also produces question-led explainers on mental health, sleep and behaviour, and covers technology and culture when they shape how people understand risk. His reporting relies on direct quotes, clear expert explanations and headlines that foreground the warning for readers’ daily lives.

Anne Karpf treats health and ageing as social and political experiences rather than just clinical conditions. She is a sociologist and award-winning journalist who writes regularly for the Guardian on social, political and cultural questions, focusing on health, ageing and dementia. Her reporting follows how people live with illness and ageing day to day, how society responds, and who gets to define these stages of life. She builds pieces around in-depth interviews, using testimony and clear explanation of the systems that shape people’s experiences. Karpf writes on media narratives about illness, stigma, care and older people, and how language can dehumanise or empower. She links health and ageing to gender, environmental justice, care and climate, and also reports on memory, family, psychological life and historical trauma, including Holocaust remembrance and debates over Gaza.

Asha Patel is an online health journalist for the BBC East Midlands, known for regional coverage of contested and tragic medical outcomes. She reports on how medical treatment, vaccination and hospital care intersect with formal investigations when results are challenged, following individual cases rather than national policy debates. Her stories focus on specific incidents that trigger scrutiny of clinical decisions and oversight systems, using clear timelines, coroner-led hearings and factual medical context instead of speculation. In covering cases such as the death of 85-year-old Mohinder Kaur Mahal after a Covid jab at Royal Derby Hospital, she balances families’ concerns with information from health authorities and inquests. Patel’s work is digital-first, structured for quick online reading, and often picked up by syndication partners, shaped by earlier experience reporting for another regional news outlet.

Ben Hurst is Head of Lifestyle and Money, leading service journalism that links health, everyday regulation and personal finance to practical choices for readers. He focuses on consumer-facing health coverage that turns medical research, expert advice and policy changes into clear risks and actions, especially for older adults and people with chronic conditions. His reporting examines prescription drug side effects, dementia risk, and routine habits that can compound or ease illness, emphasising medication reviews and clinician input rather than abrupt self-change. He builds stories around clear rules of thumb from clinicians and television doctors, using simple framing to explain when to change routines, seek help or adjust habits. He also covers new laws for bikes, e-bikes and scooters, detailing deadlines, rule changes and enforcement, and showing how small lifestyle and money decisions add up to significant health and safety outcomes.

Brian Shepherd combines outbreak coverage, HIV clinician profiles and organizational communications in a senior communications role at AIDS Healthcare Foundation. He writes news and advocacy pieces on global health emergencies, HIV care and the systems that support them, linking emerging outbreaks and pandemic preparedness with front-line stories from clinicians and communities. His work tracks how investment, policy and education lead to protection for patients and health workers. He writes for AHF’s Global Advocacy and Global Featured channels, covering Ebola and other threats as tests of health systems, with an eye to surveillance, financing and coordination gaps. Through “I Am AHF” clinician profiles, he shows how HIV treatment, psychosocial support and community outreach fit together. He also leads messaging for webinars and events on HIV strategy and pandemic policy, presenting AHF’s positions in clear institutional prose with direct advocacy asks.

Callum Jones is an entertainment editor at UNILAD who turns viral health studies, extreme case histories and internet clips into clear stories about how people push, damage and protect their bodies. He focuses on health, aging and what the body can endure, translating technical research into simple cause-and-effect. His work explains how early-life sexual experiences might affect aging, or what a 36-hour fast does to energy, metabolism and organs. He also reports on extreme drug use, viral medical and cosmetic procedures, and resurfaced clips, tracing them back to the people involved and the underlying science. Alongside this, he writes fast-turn pieces on celebrity remarks, politics, animals, strange science and pop culture flashpoints, using sharp headlines and short, online-first articles built around a single study, quote or clip.

Camilla Foster stands out for turning clinical and behavioural research into clear, practical health and families guidance. She writes health and families features for The Independent and also produces daily lifestyle and health pieces for a national news agency. Her beat covers common conditions, habits, technologies and life-stage health issues, with a focus on bodies, minds, mood, and family life. She often starts with an everyday symptom or trend and traces it to wider health, work and economic effects. Her reporting uses expert perspectives, practical tips and service-style explainers. She writes about sleep, gut health, heat-related mood changes, small habits for wellbeing, family care for older relatives, and how teenagers respond when social media is restricted.

Carolyn Y. Johnson focuses on the human stakes of complex medical advances and health systems, connecting frontier science to lived experience. She is a science reporter at The Washington Post and previously covered the business of health and the affordability of care at the same outlet. Her reporting centers on experimental medicine, brain science and genetic technologies, especially neurotechnology and gene-editing therapies such as CRISPR. She often follows individual patients through high-risk, experimental treatments, tracing technical development, regulation, side effects and ethical questions. She also covers health policy, costs and inequality, examining how money, regulation and risk-sharing shape access to care. Her pandemic work combines epidemiology, vaccine and drug development, and health-system capacity. Across features, policy pieces, explainers and live chats, she uses precise, clear language to link cutting-edge science and health policy to concrete outcomes for patients and families.

Charlotte Smith specialises in practical, service-led health and lifestyle journalism that turns medical and nutrition advice into simple, everyday changes. She is a health and lifestyle content editor within the Reach plc group, contributing health, wellbeing and shopping coverage to the Daily Express and sister titles. Her reporting centres on diet-led health advice, longevity and how common foods influence heart health, bone strength, brain function and lifespan. She focuses on low-cost foods, accessible supplements and NHS-based guidance rather than niche wellness trends. Her work links supermarket and high-street products to concrete health benefits, with an emphasis on value for money. She also covers NHS access, everyday conditions and public-health research, structuring stories around clear takeaways, expert commentary and realistic, evidence-based habits that readers can adopt quickly.

Chigozie Ohaka is a senior journalist and digital producer at the BBC, where he leads cross-platform storytelling and works on complex, multi-country health pieces. He reports on how health crises, costs and systems shape everyday life, focusing on outbreaks, access to care and the human impact of policy and economic choices. At Anewz, he covers health stories that connect security incidents, such as the abduction of a child and her mother from an Ebola treatment centre, to fears about transmission, fragile services and public trust. He reports on drug prices, insurance gaps and chronic illness, using patient stories, macro-economic data, social video and short-form interviews. His beat includes vaccines, malaria campaigns, illicit drug use, cybercrime, youth culture and accountability, and he writes and speaks about generative AI, media innovation and responsible use of new tools in newsrooms.

Chloe Harcombe tells health stories through the lives of patients, families and communities, using detailed case studies to show how illness, treatment and support systems intersect. She is a multimedia journalist at BBC News and BBC Radio Bristol, focusing on health-led human-interest pieces and closely reported local coverage. She reports on serious and complex conditions through single patient journeys, showing sequences of care, technical interventions and family impact. Her work returns often to women’s health, including ME and endometriosis, and to long-term conditions and the support groups and peer networks around them. She also covers young people, digital risks and mental health, treating online environments as part of public health. Beyond clinical settings she reports on community initiatives, campaigns and cultural projects linked to illness, trauma, grief and recovery, in a measured, unsentimental tone.

Clare Wilson is a science and health writer at The i Paper who focuses on what new medical evidence really means for patients, clinicians and policy. She covers complex treatments, guidelines and emerging research in plain language, testing bold claims against data and lived experience. She often writes about brain and cognitive health, especially dementia, brain resilience and how infections or nutrients like vitamin D affect long-term cognition. She reports on NHS guidance and clinical practice, examining how official advice shapes day-to-day interactions and where tensions arise over autonomy and enforcement. She also explores contested treatments for chronic and invisible illness, weighing patient stories against trials and mechanisms. Her work on genomics and future-facing medicine looks at consent, data use, unequal access and realistic benefits. Previously she reported on medicine and health for New Scientist, drawing on primary research, specialist interviews and recognised expertise.

Craig Brierley connects medical research, major funding decisions and public health concerns, treating cancer and mental health as organising themes rather than isolated disease areas. He is Head of Research Communications at the University of Cambridge, leading coverage from the School of Clinical Medicine and related programmes, and writes for East Anglia Bylines. His work follows how cancer research, institutes and philanthropy come together in new centres, using stories such as the creation of the Charlotte Lockhart Precision Breast Cancer Institute to show how targeted gifts shape precision oncology. He reports on public perceptions of health and disease through polling on cancer and other risks, and on mental health, digital care and research infrastructure, including the NIHR BioResource. His reporting is research‑driven, focused on major health developments, and shaped by senior communications roles in the medical research sector, including a senior media officer role for a major health research charity and recognition as Charity Writer of the Year in the Medical Journalists Awards in 2019.

Daniel Pye reports on health services by treating doctors’ day-to-day experience as central evidence in debates about policy, innovation and workforce change. He is a news and features writer for Doctors.net.uk, part of M3EU, covering health news and features for a professional medical audience. His core beat is health policy, regulation and clinical roles, with close attention to how rules and funding models affect consulting rooms and hospitals. He reports on regulation of emerging roles, workforce pressures, unemployment and underemployment, and how staffing models shape safety, morale and professional autonomy. He covers technology, artificial intelligence and clinical innovation in general practice and hospital care, focusing on practical uses, clear explanation of procedures and outcomes for individual patients. His work is anchored in practising clinicians’ concerns and the views of their representative bodies, presented in clear, grounded stories.

David Cox is a freelance health journalist and trained neuroscientist who brings a researcher’s mindset to explaining how medical science, lifestyle and health systems intersect in people’s lives. He covers health and medicine for major outlets in the UK and the US, writing regularly for The Telegraph alongside newspapers, broadcasters and magazines including the Guardian, the BBC, NBC News, WIRED, BBC Science Focus and New Scientist. His real beat is ageing, nutrition and brain health, with recurring work on diet, sleep, physical activity, longevity and cognitive function. He also reports on drug shortages, medicines access, chronic disease, mental health, stress biology and neurodegenerative risk. His reporting mixes individual stories, his own health data, expert interviews and large studies, turning complex evidence into clear, practical guidance across features, explainers, service pieces and television documentaries.

David Gilbert is a reporter at WIRED who covers the collision between disinformation, fringe belief systems, and real-world harm, with a distinct focus on how bad information becomes a business. He reports on disinformation, online extremism, conspiracies, and “election hucksters,” following these communities from obscure online channels into clinics, campaigns, and platforms where their ideas turn into action. A major strand of his work tracks pseudoscientific health schemes, including dangerous chlorine dioxide “cures” for cancer and other serious diseases, showing how they are packaged, monetized, and exported across borders. He treats disinformation and extremism as industries, tracing profit models, cross-border networks, and platform exploitation. Previously he reported for VICE and International Business Times. He looks for stories with genuinely new information and stresses verification, long-term source vetting, and independent corroboration before publication.

David Nield stands out for turning complex health and science research into clear, tightly written stories built around the study itself: its size, methods, limits, and real-world meaning. He is a freelance tech and science journalist and a contributing journalist at ScienceAlert, where he has reported on science and technology for more than 20 years. His work has also appeared in Wired, Popular Science, The Guardian, Gizmodo, TechRadar, Digital Trends, The Verge, and PopSci. At ScienceAlert he covers health, sleep, mental health, common conditions, environmental pressures, antibiotic resistance, and wider science and technology stories, often starting with peer-reviewed research and explaining what it changes for patients, clinicians, and everyday life.

David Nield is a freelance journalist and contributing reporter for ScienceAlert who covers health and human biology through the lens of cutting-edge science and technology. He focuses on how new lab findings, experimental treatments, and emerging risks translate into practical questions about disease, brain function, and everyday health. His health coverage often centers on the brain, neurodegenerative disease, and how scientists model and study these conditions. He reports on experimental therapies and drug development, including unconventional compounds and venom-derived painkillers, and explains where studies sit in the pipeline. He also covers environmental exposures, microplastics, and other modern materials as health risks. Beyond health, he has long experience reporting on science, technology, gadgets, apps, and the web. He writes clear, structured stories that stay close to the data and explain mechanisms, limits, and real-world relevance in plain language.

Dr Azeem Majeed is a practising GP and health columnist who uses his primary care and public health expertise to give readers clear, prescriptive guidance on everyday health risks and NHS services. He is a professor and head of a department of primary care and public health at Imperial College London and holds a director role in a public health research collaborative. His Express columns focus on heart and circulatory health, cholesterol, cardiovascular risk, NHS screening, vaccination, infectious disease prevention and practical travel health. He writes in a direct first-person voice, often starting with “I’m a GP”, simplifying clinical evidence and national guidance into concrete steps. His journalism sits on top of decades of research on cardiovascular disease, inequalities in care, health checks, and the sustainability and organisation of health and care workforces.

Dr James Kinross is a practicing colorectal surgeon and microbiome researcher who treats gut problems and studies how the gut microbiome drives disease. He writes as an expert contributor at The Telegraph, where he produces guides and explainers on gut health, diet and lifestyle grounded in his clinical and lab work. His core subject is the gut microbiome as a command and control centre for the immune system, and its role in colorectal cancer, western diseases, infection and chronic illness. He focuses on practical, step‑by‑step advice for building gut‑healthy days, explaining how specific habits, foods, sleep, movement and stress affect symptoms, mood and immunity. He also reports on microbiome tests, probiotics and new therapies such as faecal microbiota transplantation, weighing risks, benefits and evidence. His work breaks down mechanisms in plain language, with a cautious, research‑led approach rather than trend‑driven lifestyle coverage.

Dr Nekisa Zakeri is a Senior Clinical Lecturer, Consultant Hepatologist and group leader who brings frontline liver cancer expertise to public-facing journalism. She writes for The Conversation and related outlets on liver cancer as a largely preventable cause of death, using data and clinical experience to explain why deaths are rising and how prevention and surveillance can change that trajectory. Her lead coverage sets out how liver cancer mortality has climbed quickly, grounding arguments in specific national figures and focusing on modifiable drivers of liver disease. She explains links between cirrhosis, viral hepatitis and cancer, and produces explainer content on liver cancer surveillance that speaks directly to people with chronic liver conditions. Her work draws on a clinical and academic role at Barts Cancer Institute, emphasising early diagnosis, appropriate imaging, systematic surveillance and practical policy responses.

Dr Yae-eun Suh is a practising consultant clinical oncologist who brings an active clinician’s perspective to cancer coverage for The Telegraph, with a distinct focus on prostate cancer treatment and its impact on everyday life. She writes in‑depth pieces that dismantle common myths about prostate cancer, such as how long treatment takes, what radiotherapy involves, and how treatment affects quality of life and sexual function. Her reporting explains diagnosis, treatment pathways, radiotherapy, side‑effects and sex in plain language, translating specialist oncology detail into clear, step‑by‑step guidance. She writes across dedicated cancer and prostate cancer topic pages as well as wider health and fitness coverage, serving both readers actively seeking cancer information and those engaging with general health content. Her work centres on frank, reassuring answers to men’s practical questions about treatment, prognosis and life after prostate cancer.

Eleanor Noyce is a lifestyle reporter at Metro. She runs the paper’s What I Rent and What I Own columns on UK housing. Her beat sits at the intersection of health, housing, sex and identity. She covers property, LGBTQ+ culture, disability and neurodiversity, with work that also spans sex and relationships. Her reporting uses service-led explainers and lived-experience stories. She writes in clear, accessible language and often turns complex topics into simple guides and concrete reference points. Her bylines also include the Independent, Glamour, Stylist, Women’s Health, PinkNews, Healthline and Bustle.

Emily Carubia is a late reporter on the Liverpool Echo news desk who helps shape the newsroom’s evening output by covering live and breaking news across Merseyside and the wider UK. She focuses on how events immediately affect people’s lives, from serious crime, courts and public safety incidents to health-related experiences and the systems meant to protect vulnerable people. Her reporting centres on victims, families and witnesses, foregrounding fear, grief and shock rather than procedure alone. She files fast-moving updates, daily round-ups and live coverage around major anniversaries, including VE Day, often drawing on archives to connect history with today. She also writes tributes and community pieces on local figures, small businesses and cultural institutions, and picks up showbiz and national talking points such as high-profile celebrity stories when they resonate with readers.

Emily Craig specialises in in-depth health features that show how everyday habits and chronic conditions shape long-term risk. She is a health features writer at The Telegraph. She works where consumer health, science reporting and lived experience meet, using patient stories and specialist testimony to explain clinical evidence. Her beat covers chronic conditions, cardiovascular risk, blood pressure, diet, frailty, ageing, arthritis, musculoskeletal disease, joints, pain, mobility and brain and heart health. She often frames pieces around a single person whose experience reveals hidden dangers, such as untreated high blood pressure in someone who appears “super fit,” or concerns about becoming “pre-frail.” She interviews medical experts to test public assumptions, then builds plain-language explainers from their insight. She mainly writes longer features rather than short daily news. Before The Telegraph she worked on health coverage at a major online news outlet.

Emily Ronay Johnston treats writing as a health tool, showing how simple, repeatable acts on the page shape brain health, emotional resilience and the way people handle stress. She writes health features for The Independent’s lifestyle and health-and-families pages, explaining how cognitive and emotional habits affect wellbeing for a general audience. Her core beat is the intersection of brain science, psychology and everyday stress, with a focus on how writing can “rewire” the brain and help people regulate mood, attention and memory. She also covers infectious health topics, including an explainer on Cicada COVID symptoms and what readers should watch for with the emerging variant. A researcher and teacher of writing studies, she translates peer-reviewed work on cognition and resilience into clear, practical guidance, showing how ordinary writing routines can help people navigate pressure and uncertainty.

Emma Mackenzie is a features journalist at the Mirror who turns individual cases into clear, expert-led stories. She covers health, home life, family and relationship tensions, and the strain that public scrutiny and institutions place on people. Her reporting starts with a person’s experience, then adds specialist commentary, guidelines or research to explain what is happening. She writes in a plain, direct style and often uses first-person accounts, reported interviews and reader case studies rather than straight news. Her past work includes royal coverage at Yahoo News UK, including the Prince Harry phone-hacking trial and stories on Crown scrutiny, as well as Mirror features on Meghan Markle and on Donald Trump’s insults toward female reporters.

Emma Wilkinson is an award-winning freelance journalist who specialises in medicine, science and health, translating complex clinical research, workforce pressures and digital health trends into precise reporting for professional audiences. She writes news and features for medical journals, clinician-facing platforms and B2B health publications, with bylines including BBC News online, BMJ, Chemist and Druggist, Circulation, Devex, the Sunday Times, Doctors.net.uk, Pulse, the Pharmaceutical Journal and The Lancet. Her oncology coverage focuses on cancer treatment breakthroughs, survival data and whether new trial results mark incremental progress or a shift in standard of care. She reports in depth on staffing, service organisation and mortality, and on how online information, social media and marketing shape patient demand, prescribing trends and safe use of treatments.

Etim Etim is a columnist and writer at TheCable whose health coverage blends accessible medical explanation with data-led analysis and a focus on how governance and systems shape health outcomes. He works on the health beat, turning subjects such as prostate disease, cholera outbreaks, and maternal mortality into clear opinion and analysis pieces that nudge earlier care-seeking and stronger public-health action. His reporting style starts from everyday moments, explains conditions like noncommunicable and infectious diseases in plain language, and steers readers toward screening, professional care, and institutional accountability. Alongside health commentary, he writes on finance, national development, and wider structural questions. His byline appears not only in TheCable but also across a range of national newspapers and online platforms, including Nairaland Forum, The Guardian, Vanguard, Legit.ng, and Premium Times.

Gunter Kuhnle is a professor of nutrition and food science who writes about flavanols, dietary patterns, and ultra-processed foods. He focuses on how specific compounds in everyday foods affect long-term health, especially heart disease and other chronic conditions. He explains research on phenolic compounds, flavanols, and dietary biomarkers, and he shows how fruits, vegetables, tea, cocoa, and food-processing choices can shift health risks. His reporting challenges generic diet advice, including “five a day,” by stressing that type and amount matter. He also covers obesity, food-system reform, and the health implications of different processing methods. His work is research-driven and explanatory, with close attention to study design, what findings do and do not show, and how evidence translates into practical guidance.

Hanna Geissler is Health Editor at the Daily Express. Her distinct beat is UK health news, especially the NHS and the latest medical research. She covers hospital services, community care, mental health provision, cancer treatment, diet, lifestyle, and chronic disease advice. Her work turns system stories and clinical studies into clear, expert-led guidance for readers. She often uses named specialists to explain findings and focuses on what changes for patients, from treatment timing and access to everyday choices. Since 2021, she has also helped drive the paper’s health agenda and its assisted dying campaign, Give Us Our Last Rights. Before that, she was a health reporter at the same paper.

Harry Bullmore turns strength and fitness coverage into simple, actionable guidance for people who want longevity, confidence and realistic routines rather than gym culture clichés. He is The Independent’s senior fitness writer, covering exercise news, reviews, features and the Well Enough newsletter, and he also works as a fitness coach, testing and explaining the training plans he writes about. His core patch is strength training for long-term health, especially “longevity workouts”, compound lifts and at-desk routines that fit around work and life. He focuses on short, structured sessions, minimal equipment and resistance bands to lower the barrier to getting stronger. He contributes to and commissions IndyBest health and fitness reviews, where usability and everyday value matter as much as performance. His earlier work for specialist fitness titles centres on accessible home workouts, clear coaching cues and strength sessions for full-body function.

Hattie Garlick is news and features director at Good Housekeeping. She stands out for turning health into daily routines. She covers practical health, lifestyle and ageing stories, with a focus on midlife wellbeing, healthy ageing, organisation and home life. Her work shows readers how small changes can improve sleep, reduce stress and make healthy habits feel manageable. She often writes in the first person, using her own routines and experiments as a test case before adding expert-backed advice. Her features are practical, detailed and non-judgmental. She has also written for The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph and Mother and Baby Magazine.

Heidi Hardman-Welsh is a health reporter for The Leader whose work treats health as part of everyday community life. She covers communities in Flintshire and Wrexham, focusing on how medical issues, care, accessibility and local support shape daily experience. Her beat brings serious illness, disability, fundraising and veterans’ voices together in one strand of reporting. She writes detailed case studies, including features that follow families through confusing symptoms, misinterpreted diagnoses and the emotional impact of incurable brain cancer. She covers accessibility projects such as an Accessibility Guide for Wrexham, showing how local information and infrastructure reduce barriers. She also reports on grassroots fundraising and service and remembrance stories, using clear timelines and human detail so readers see how people organise, respond and look after one another around health-related challenges.

Helen Albert covers how genomics and biotechnology are changing clinical care, with a focus on turning complex research into clear, practical reporting for specialist readers. She is a senior editor at Inside Precision Medicine and a freelance science and health journalist with more than ten years of experience. Her beat sits at the intersection of genomics, diagnostics, and clinical translation, and she covers new sequencing methods, biomarker-driven tools, precision approaches, and other omics-based innovations. She often follows these developments from early study through to their possible impact on patients and health systems. Her reporting combines concise explanations of methods and results with clear attention to accuracy, feasibility, cost, and real-world use. She has also written for Forbes, New Scientist, and the BMJ.

Hollie Carr covers health for the Dorset Echo. She focuses on incident-led stories where medical issues affect everyday community settings. Her reporting centres on clear, straightforward updates about health concerns in schools and on community safety initiatives. She covers single cases in defined local settings, such as shingles in a school community, and stories at the point where public health and personal safety meet, including reports on spiking. Her work presents health information as direct local news and shows how groups respond to health-related risks in familiar public spaces.

Hollie McKay brings frontline war reporting into maternal and global health, using the lives of mothers and families to show how conflict and human rights abuses shape care, survival, and everyday life. She is a writer, war reporter, war crimes investigator, geopolitical analyst, author, and speaker with many years of field experience in conflict zones. She now runs Maternal Dispatches with Hollie McKay, a project of written dispatches and a podcast framed as frontline reporting on maternal health, conflict, and human rights from a mother’s lens. Her real beat is where war, policy, and intimate family decisions meet, including maternal and reproductive health, disease outbreaks, the targeting of health care, and human rights issues affecting girls and young women. She relies on detailed on-the-ground reporting, a direct tone, and close attention to the ethical and emotional stakes of her stories.

Holly Kintuka stands out for turning health and lifestyle advice into clear, action-led instructions. She is an audience writer at the Daily Express, covering UK news, health-focused consumer warnings, service features, infrastructure, Africa, tourism, gardening, food and everyday life hacks. Her work often boils broad subjects down to one practical step, from medication checks and heatwave safety to gardening must-haves and travel choices. She writes with a calm, explanatory tone, but the headlines are urgent and directive. She also covers entertainment and royal stories, plus pieces that flag what to watch, buy or do now. Her reporting is practical, audience-first and focused on simple, usable takeaways.

Ian Craig covers health stories for WalesOnline, focusing on how frontline clinical practice and system pressures shape patient outcomes. He reports on women's cardiovascular health and A&E care through acute cardiac cases in emergency departments. His work on heart attack symptoms in women shows how atypical presentations and entrenched assumptions lead to missed or delayed diagnoses. He uses the testimony of an emergency doctor to set out specific symptoms, explain why they are overlooked, and spell out the practical consequences when a heart attack is not recognised. Craig builds his reporting around detailed explanations from frontline clinicians, turning specialist language into clear descriptions of symptoms, risk factors, and warning signs, and leaving readers with practical guidance on what to watch for and how to seek timely care.

Ioannis Zabetakis is an Associate Professor in food chemistry who writes as a working scientist about how everyday foods affect heart health, using his research on lipids, inflammation and cardiometabolic disease to test claims about “good” and “bad” fats. He currently contributes to the press while also editing and writing on functional foods and their role in health promotion. His beat is cardiovascular prevention through diet, focusing on how specific fats, fibres and bioactive compounds in common foods influence lipid profiles, endothelial function and heart disease risk. He covers topics such as cholesterol, triglycerides, lipoprotein(a), atherosclerosis and alcohol, always situating individual foods within overall dietary patterns. His articles move from problem to mechanism to practical dietary changes, explaining complex lipid biology in simple language and stressing realistic, whole‑food based choices.

James Campbell is a news reporter for Isle of Man Today whose work stands out for its steady focus on how health, culture and local services shape everyday life. He reports health stories through individual experiences, showing how illness and care play out in workplaces, homes and families. He covers charities, institutions and cultural initiatives, linking fundraising, books and arts events to the services and communities they support. His pieces range from older people’s housing and residents managing retirement complexes to digital access to media platforms. Across health, charity, culture and services, he tracks how institutions and systems affect daily routines, using specific events and clear, practical detail to show their impact on real households, workplaces and social spaces.

Jamie Greer’s most distinctive work follows younger patients and children through long, confusing journeys in the health system, showing how everyday symptoms, missed diagnoses and systemic issues can lead to serious harm. He is a general reporter for the Liverpool Echo with a particular interest in breaking news, crime, health, social affairs and regeneration, producing written and visual content tailored to under‑35 audiences. His health coverage centres on detailed patient and family narratives, sequenced timelines of symptoms and clinical responses, and clear explanations from clinicians and hospitals. He reports on missed warning signs, hidden serious disease behind routine pain, rare conditions, and the consequences of delaying checks. Another strand of his work focuses on children’s safety and emerging health risks in hospitals, while his lifestyle and social reporting covers energy drinks, live music culture and community initiatives linked to wellbeing.

Jess Skelton is a reporter at the Bournemouth Echo who focuses on how health and emergency services work on the ground. She covers developments in hospital facilities and treatment options, including a ‘state-of-the-art’ private cancer facility set to launch on an existing hospital site. Her health stories centre on specific units and changes that shape how cancer services are delivered locally. She also reports on live local incidents involving emergency services, such as crashes that bring public safety, transport and healthcare together in the community. In her public professional profiles she describes herself as a reporter for the Bournemouth Echo and invites people to get in touch with stories, taking a community-facing approach as a contact point for residents affected by health service changes or serious local incidents.

Kate Lloyd is an award-winning journalist and content strategist whose work for the Guardian explores health questions rooted in everyday life. She focuses on practical topics such as the five-second rule and common food hygiene habits, using them to examine risk, hygiene and routine in clear terms. Her health, wellness and lifestyle pieces centre straightforward, human stories rather than abstract policy, and often start with the small choices people make around eating, rest and recovery. She writes about food and nutrition, including calorie balance and sports nutrition, contrasting folk wisdom and familiar slogans with expert guidance and current research. She also covers wellness retreats in reader-focused, service-led detail, blending personal experience with reporting on programmes and routines. Her background spans editorial features and content strategy across national newspapers, Sunday editions, women’s health titles and lifestyle brands.

Lee Peart is an experienced health and social care editor who reports on how UK health and care services are led, staffed and financed. He is editor of Healthcare Management and led its launch in 2024. His beat covers workforce pressure, strike action, pay disputes, service transformation, central government policy and social care reform. He writes on how staffing gaps, rota changes and industrial unrest affect service continuity and patient access. He also covers long-term health plan delivery, hospital building pledges, integrated care and cross-sector collaboration. His work takes an executive-level view and is aimed at healthcare leaders. He uses interviews, roundtables and commentary to frame operational detail against system resilience and long-term planning.

Lorraine Tinney stands out for health and community reporting that puts people first. She is a reporter with the Greenock Telegraph. Her work focuses on how illness, funding and support structures affect daily life. She covers health stories about diagnosis, recovery, patients and families, not abstract systems. She also reports on community centres, grants and charities that support wellbeing and local services. Her stories have included front-page coverage and features on serious illness, multi-year funding, and organisations such as Branchton Community Centre and the Jubilee Sailing Trust.

Luis Prada writes about how science, medicine, and technology collide with everyday life, using a plainspoken, often wry voice to explain what new research and health trends mean for ordinary people. He is a topical writer on the masthead who covers health and adjacent science stories built around fresh research or emerging technologies. His pieces translate technical biology and medical metrics into clear takeaways about risk, uncertainty, and real-world impact on cost, access, and outcomes. He often structures stories around a single study, device, or claim and walks readers through methods, limitations, and relevance with direct language and expert interviews. He makes uncomfortable topics in sexual, reproductive, and mental health accessible without sensationalism. His background as a weekly columnist and senior columns editor at Cracked.com informs his tight, column-like structures across health, science, AI, automation, and institutional technology.

Maddy Biddulph turns expert health and fitness advice into simple routines and habits that fit everyday life. She is a health, fitness and wellbeing specialist and journalist for Fit&Well, with more than two decades in consumer media as a writer and editor. At Fit&Well she covers strength training, home workouts, weight management and everyday nutrition through an evidence-led, coach-informed lens. She reports on specific problems such as weight regain after GLP-1 medications by explaining the underlying biology and realistic behavior changes. Her coverage profiles how trainers and clinicians structure weekly strength, cardio and mobility workouts for longevity, energy and consistency, with day-by-day schedules and practical tips. She also writes detailed, step-by-step guides to strength techniques, pain-aware movement, “longevity-boosting” exercises, simple nutrition, recovery and everyday habits, and has contributed health and fitness features to other outlets.

Maeve Cullinan covers global health security for The Telegraph, treating outbreaks and health threats as stories about power, systems and the people caught between them. Her beat spans infectious diseases, conflict, human rights, reproductive health and emerging threats, with a focus on how decisions taken far from the front line shape who lives and who dies. She combines clear, question-led explainers with reporting on under-reported crises and the fragile infrastructure meant to contain them, and her work has been recognised with a newcomer-of-the-year award from a science writing body. She stays with protracted health struggles, unpacking structural and scientific reasons progress is uneven, and handles fast-moving, high-anxiety threats with calmly analytical, evidence-focused coverage. She returns to overlooked hazards and crises in low- and middle-income countries, treating conflict, sexual violence and reproductive health as core security issues.

Michael Marshall is a freelance science journalist who specialises in turning complex life sciences and neuroscience research into clear stories about the human body, brain and behaviour. He writes features for New Scientist that connect biology and brain activity to health conditions, autism, sensory changes in illness and COVID-19, treating these topics as questions of mechanisms and evolution rather than abstract theory or policy. His reporting sits close to primary literature and takes the form of mid-length explainers that walk through what researchers measured, how they interpreted it and what remains uncertain, with a measured, explanatory tone. He has edited a New Scientist book on human evolution and contributed chapters on human origins, and his wider freelance portfolio across major science outlets keeps a core focus on life sciences, human evolution and the environment.

Neil Shaw focuses on the human and financial fallout of illness, showing in clear detail how health problems and health systems shape everyday life. He is a journalist at the Daily Mirror whose core beat is health, with a particular emphasis on how diagnosis, treatment and policy translate into work, money and access to care for ordinary people. He reports on cases where sickness leads to debt, pay disputes or benefit issues, building stories around a single person or family and tracking letters, calls, rules and formal notices. Shaw also writes straightforward medical explainers on symptoms, warning signs, test results and new guidance, and covers NHS services and access to treatment. His reporting uses concise language, plain explanations and direct quotes, balancing individual accounts with official statements to show the gap between policy and experience.

News First reports health stories through a numbers-first lens, using case counts and daily patient loads to show the seriousness of disease outbreaks. They focus on dengue case tracking and trends, highlighting total dengue cases and daily patient figures to show scale, pace, and trajectory. Their health beat links rising case numbers to pressure on clinics and hospitals, stressing sustained strain on health services and infrastructure rather than isolated incidents. Coverage stays close to official surveillance data and observable indicators, avoiding speculation and technical language. News First favors short, bulletin-style updates built around verified figures, clear headlines, and simple trend descriptions. Their reporting functions as a regular status check on disease activity and system load, giving readers a clear, current snapshot of public health risks.

Niamh Kirk is a lifestyle and features journalist at the Mirror who uses real-life stories to report on health-led and female-focused issues for a wide readership. She turns complex medical and social questions into clear, accessible narratives that combine individual experiences with expert voices and data. Since joining the Mirror in 2023, she has built a patch spanning health, relationships, injustices and empowerment, with a core specialism in real-life health and social features and quirky, unusual cases. Her work includes framing medical advice through the lens of ordinary people at risk, in areas such as rising heart attack rates in younger adults. She reports closely on women’s health, fertility and choice, and has fronted a campaign on safety and regulation in the aesthetics and cosmetic treatment industry, treating cosmetic procedures as a public health issue.

Nikki Fox builds health stories around one patient’s journey and the care decisions that shape their outcome. She is a health correspondent for the BBC’s regional news operation, focusing on serious conditions, hospital treatment and follow-up care in her patch. Her work centres on regional hospital care and what rare but high-impact illnesses mean for wards, staff and specialist teams. She reports cases such as a Cambridgeshire mother’s necrotising fasciitis, following the timeline from infection and emergency treatment through coma and long recovery. She writes in straightforward, conversational prose, using clear medical explanation and restrained, factual case studies with minimal jargon. She keeps the emphasis on what went wrong in the body, what clinicians did, and how that translated into real demands on services and on patients’ lives.

Pangambam S runs The Singju Post as a text-first record of long-form spoken content, publishing full transcripts of interviews, podcasts and public speeches. They focus on health, technology and public policy, treating health as part of wider shifts in AI, infrastructure and governance. Their health beat brings specialist voices in longevity, mental health and relationships into searchable, quotable text, including detailed discussions of creatine, muscle health and the social and digital lives of young people. Their technology and policy work includes full transcripts on artificial intelligence as a second industrial revolution, AI regulation and large-scale AI infrastructure projects. Pangambam works as a curator and transcriber, prioritising accuracy, chronology and the speaker’s own language over synthesis, and uses voices from technologists, business commentators and political leaders to frame debates on supplements, wellbeing, relationships and AI policy.

Pippa Neill is a specialist on PFAS and related chemical contamination, reporting on how industrial pollution and “forever chemicals” turn into concrete health risks for people living beside factories, rivers and coastlines. She is an environment reporter at the Guardian, where she covers environmental stories with a strong public health focus and returns to communities affected by toxic chemicals to track scientific, regulatory and human consequences over time. Her work has examined elevated kidney cancer rates around a PFAS factory and highlighted towns among the most PFAS‑polluted in the country. Neill’s beat includes PFAS, wider chemical pollution in water and air, inland bathing sites hit by pollutant “cocktails”, and air quality. She reports through investigative, document‑based work, expert sources and on‑the‑ground visits, using plain language and centring evidence and lived experience.

Rachael McMenemy stands out for reporting on how health and justice systems affect people in real life. She is a BBC reporter who covers people’s experiences of medical care, safeguarding, public services and policing, often through detailed case reporting and long-form features. She follows serious illness, vaccine uptake, failures in care, emergency response and the long tail of injury or trauma. Her work often returns to the same families and communities as inquests, reviews or inquiries progress, and she gives space to relatives’ voices, timelines and official findings. Before the BBC, she worked in regional newsrooms covering crime, breaking news and court cases.

Rebecca Whittaker is a health reporter at The Independent who stands out for turning new medical research and public health developments into clear, practical stories for everyday readers. She tracks medical and scientific studies and explains their findings in plain language, keeping technical detail but always linking it back to what it means for an ordinary person. Her beat spans genetics, obesity, cardiovascular risk, ageing, chronic disease and sensory loss, including the impact of losing the sense of smell. She also reports on nutrients and supplements in later life and treats them as part of a wider toolkit for healthy ageing. Alongside this, she covers how climate, weather and public services, such as bin collection rules during heatwaves, shape health risks. Her reporting foregrounds study methods, evidence limits and real-world implications.

Richard McLaughlin stands out for reporting the human impact of health and care decisions through detailed case-led stories. He covers health, care, and professional standards, with a focus on accountability and safety in medical practice. He also writes about patient experience, family crisis, community fundraising campaigns, NHS services, local health provision, and protest over health decisions. His work includes coverage of nurses and clinical decision making, cases where staff conduct is questioned, and stories on physiotherapy practices and other local providers. He reports in a straightforward, reportorial style, grounded in specific events and voices. His bylines include work on serious incidents and the way families, patients, regulators, and communities respond.

Rob Kemp links cycling to whole-person health, using sports science and expert advice to give riders clear actions they can take to feel better, ride stronger and stay well as they age. He is a freelance features specialist writing for cycling titles under the same umbrella as the masthead, including long-form work for a dedicated road-cycling magazine. His beat is health and longevity for midlife riders, men’s health, mental wellbeing, practical training and everyday nutrition. He covers sleep, movement, strength work, high-intensity intervals, recovery, mindset, stress and simple food habits, treating cycling as one pillar in a broader lifestyle. His pieces are detailed but plain, with specific sessions, routines and shopping guidance rather than vague wellness claims. With around 30 years’ experience and multiple health books, he focuses on evidence-based guidance and consistent, sustainable habits.

Robert Rowlands is a health reporter whose work stands out for clear explanations of medical risks, early warning signs and long-term consequences grounded in expert voices and research. He covers health stories for the Daily Star, focusing on how medical issues and lifestyle choices play out in everyday life. He reports on overlooked symptoms and serious conditions, including sleep disorders linked with dementia and Parkinson’s, infections caught in social settings and the effects of contaminated drinking water on organs. He writes on lifestyle, prevention and longevity, such as brief daily exercise, habits of centenarians and practical ways to reduce exposure to health hazards. He also covers medical interventions and difficult diagnoses, including weight-loss injections and cancer treatment, combining patient stories with clinical and public-health perspectives.

Rucsandra Moldoveanu focuses on fast-moving health and public safety stories that link medical issues, crime, and community impact. She is a live news reporter for the Mirror, covering breaking incidents involving serious harm, alleged healthcare failings, violent deaths, and major police investigations. Her reporting centres on what happened, who has been affected, and what authorities are doing, with tight detail and verified developments. She covers fatal road crashes, knife crime, and cases where public authorities face pressure to respond. She also reports on health, environment, and housing conditions, documenting on-the-ground realities and official responses. Her work includes court and accountability coverage on professional misconduct, formal inquiries, extradition hearings, and custodial sentences. She often collaborates with other reporters on complex major incidents, contributing clear timelines, on-the-ground detail, and concise summaries of official statements.

Sallie Phillips is an AI expansion reporter who uses AI tools to support reporting and production across multiple titles in a regional publishing group, including the South Wales Argus and the Western Telegraph. She reports for the South Wales Argus on health and people-focused stories, linking medical issues, local services and community life through individual experiences. Her work centres on detailed case studies that show what diagnoses, lifestyle choices and treatments mean for day-to-day life. She also covers community events tied to identity and inclusion, and changes in local services linked to care and bereavement. Her reporting style is straightforward and compassionate, with clinical detail kept in the background and a focus on emotion, action, outcome and context. She combines AI-enabled workflows with direct community outreach and public calls for contributions.

Samantha Leathers is a health and lifestyle journalist who turns expert medical guidance into clear, practical steps people can use right away. She covers the health beat for the Daily Star, writing short digital features built around doctors’ and specialists’ advice. Her stories focus on family life, familiar milestones, and everyday worries, using occasions like Father’s Day or common symptoms to surface preventive checks and questions relatives can ask at home. She structures pieces around named clinicians, breaking their guidance into simple routines, rules of thumb, and numbered prompts. Her coverage centres on early detection, small behaviour changes, and concrete examples rather than technical detail or policy. She writes for a broad audience, aiming to help readers spot serious illness sooner, improve daily habits, and share expert-backed tips easily within families.

Sarah Farmer connects health and everyday life on screen, focusing on clear guidance for specific groups rather than abstract policy. She is a senior journalist, presenter and reporter at the BBC, working across BBC South and related outlets. Her beat sits at the intersection of health, animals, weather and physical wellbeing. She covers stories such as equine flu and vaccination, animal health and preventive medicine, framing outbreaks through the experiences of people directly affected. She weaves heat health alerts and simple weather advice into her forecasts, stressing practical steps like using sun cream. Her reporting is often immersive, joining rural and physically demanding work such as sheep shearing or training for the Dirty Dancing lift to show what exertion and preparation feel like on camera.

Sarah Ingram links health topics to everyday life, using plain language to show how medical and psychological issues affect bodies, relationships and identity. She covers health for Metro and freelances for national press and agencies, including work for Metro, the Independent and the Guardian. Her health features start from lived experience, using specific conditions or dilemmas to ask wider questions about care, risk and the body. She writes question-led explainers on issues such as Lazarus syndrome, and focuses on real-world consequences of clinical decisions. Across outlets she returns to body image, beauty pageants, mental health, obsessive-compulsive disorder, relationships and the emotional fallout of illness. She also works as an art writer, filing cultural features. Her reporting is explanatory, grounded in case studies, and treats health as part of ordinary life.

Sarah Knapton is the science editor at The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. She stands out for health and medical reporting that uses scientific evidence to show real-world consequences. Her beat centres on Covid, vaccines, mortality, public health risks, air pollution, disability, the NHS and other science stories with clear policy stakes. She reports through case-based storytelling and data-driven analysis, often using individual lives to explain risk, uncertainty, clinical practice and responsibility. She has covered all areas of science since 2013, but her work keeps returning to what new research means for patients, families, clinicians and regulators. She writes in accessible language and uses direct cause-and-effect framing, with clinical detail and human stories anchored in the same piece.

Sarah Newey covers global health security as a correspondent for The Telegraph, treating health security as a global system rather than a single-country issue. She reports on infectious disease, development policy, rights abuses, security and conflict, tracking how health threats and response systems shape life in vulnerable communities. With The Telegraph since 2018, she has reported from more than 20 countries, combining field reporting with coverage of global health institutions and funding decisions, and has also served as acting deputy editor in the global health and security team. Her core focus is the architecture of global health security, emerging and re-emerging diseases, outbreaks, surveillance and preparedness. She also reports on aid cuts, access to care, chronic disease, health systems, exploitation, trafficking and the “scamdemic” economy, often linking donor choices, policy, criminal economies and local realities on the ground.

Sarah Scott is a health-focused deputy editor whose reporting is built around patient stories and frontline perspectives, making screening, early diagnosis and everyday care feel concrete and urgent. She is deputy editor at Belfast Live and continues to report, bringing a background in live news, courts, inquests, council stories, live events and human interest pieces to a health-led brief. Her work tracks the life-or-death impact of cancer screening programmes, structural gaps in provision and the data and research behind earlier diagnosis. She centres lived experience in coverage of stroke, cancer and the Lives Remembered strand, uses clear timelines and concrete detail, and pays close attention to nurses, cancer registry staff and innovators connecting research and creative practice with everyday care. Her output spans written features, video collaborations and social-first storytelling.

Shannon Miller is a news reporter at The Mirror whose work sits where health, trauma and public judgment of people’s bodies and identities meet. She reports health stories that show how race, appearance and stereotype shape experiences as much as diagnosis or injury. Her pieces often centre on extreme medical emergencies and traumatic injuries that come close to catastrophe, using single cases to show human impact, medical detail and the aftermath for patients and families. She also writes candidly about Black women’s Afro hair, stereotypes and mental load, treating appearance and discrimination as health and stress issues. Working on the news desk, she files health and social-issue stories into the wider news agenda, with her case-led reporting regularly syndicated across major digital platforms and partner titles.

Smarica Pant reports on how everyday habits, medical advances, and subtle risk factors shape long-term health, with a focus on practical guidance grounded in specialist expertise. She is a senior digital media content writer and editor at India Today, with over 13 years of experience in news reporting and feature writing. Her beat sits at the intersection of health and lifestyle, translating medical advice into clear, actionable explanations for general readers. She covers diet, hidden health risks, chronic conditions, and emerging treatments, often stressing prevention, long-term management, and realistic expectations. Her health stories are evidence-led explainers built around expert voices, using named specialists and plain language to unpack clinical detail. She starts from common misconceptions, adds medical context, and then spells out specific behaviour-level advice, foregrounding key takeaways and structuring pieces as reported features rather than brief bulletins.

Sneha Richhariya stands out for turning medicine, data and health system decisions into clear reporting on care for patients. At ThePrint, she works across text, audio and video explainers. Her beat covers cancer trends, new oncology tools, obesity, diabetes, weight-loss drugs, hospital governance and the medical workforce. She reports from front-line hospital stories to national datasets and emerging technologies, and she connects individual cases to wider trends in disease burden, workforce pressure and access to treatment. Her coverage has included cervical, breast and oral cancer patterns, AI in oncology, transplant innovation, obesity survey data, new anti-obesity drugs, and why senior doctors leave public medical institutions. She writes in clear, non-technical language and uses interviews, clinical trial findings, survey statistics and narrative reporting to ground her work.

Stuart Woodward is a reporter and producer for the BBC who focuses on health and public service stories told through the experiences of local people, especially around mental health, learning disabilities and care systems. He reports how health services reach, or fail to reach, vulnerable patients, following trials to increase health checks, showing missed life-saving appointments and tracking what changes when new schemes are adopted. His work on mental health treats it as an issue of safety, rights and accountability, examining surveillance on wards, serious incidents and inquiries into deaths, and amplifying families’ and patients’ voices. He also covers community stories on local politics, education, courts and public figures, always keeping attention on human consequences. He works across BBC regional platforms, including BBC Essex and BBC Look East, producing broadcast and digital pieces rooted in patient stories and community testimony.

Tatyannah King is a clinical sexologist, sex educator, writer, sex blogger, and international speaker who treats sex as a core beat, not a side topic. She writes service journalism and personal essays about sexual health, intimacy, and modern dating, with a focus on sex, relationships, and major life choices. Her work appears at BuzzFeed and other digital magazines, news sites, women’s lifestyle outlets, and reproductive health publications. She reports on sexual health myths, women’s bodies, and women’s encounters with medical systems, using clear anatomy, medical explanations, and practical takeaways. She also covers sex, dating, and intimacy culture, from pleasure guides and adult products to situationships and long‑term relationships. Her stories blend clinical training, narrative detail, and candid first‑person or close anecdote to debunk viral misinformation and reduce shame around diverse experiences.

Tim Spector is a professor of genetic epidemiology and gut‑health researcher who writes Telegraph columns on how everyday eating habits shape long‑term health using gut science and large‑scale nutrition data. He focuses on gut health, weight, energy and disease risk, showing how ultra‑processed snacks, sugary cereals and “healthy” packaged foods can undermine otherwise careful diets. His beat is diet, gut microbes, fibre, polyphenols, food processing and meal timing, translating complex genetics and microbiome findings into plain‑language swaps like more varied plants, minimally processed and fermented foods. He writes in the first person, using his own habits and family life to ground advice on food, movement, sleep and stress, and uses his background as an award‑winning scientist, best‑selling author, professor and co‑founder of a nutrition data company to challenge standard diet rules and advocate flexible, evidence‑based eating patterns.

Tom Perkins is a freelance reporter who stands out for tracking toxic chemicals like PFAS from lab findings and regulatory files into homes, workplaces and local ecosystems. He reports for the Guardian and other outlets, with work that centers on environmental health, water quality and the risks pollution and policy decisions create for ordinary people. He covers PFAS exposure in drinking water, consumer products and human blood, including studies on pregnancy and long-term health. He writes on contaminated water systems, toxic sites, industrial emissions, waste facilities and food-system impacts, treating water and environmental problems as both scientific and political. His reporting follows local case studies and regulatory fights to show how power, responsibility and accountability shape who bears contamination. He also covers health, rights and higher education, including surveillance, detention and displacement linked to campus and human-rights crises.

Tom Ward is a journalist and author who connects everyday fitness advice with stories about performance and exploration. He writes for GQ on how people move, eat, and train in realistic ways, blending service health journalism with narrative features on scientific and adventure frontiers. His coverage spans step-by-step training and interval workouts, comparisons of different forms of cardio, and guides to building safe, sustainable exercise into busy lives. He also reports on nutrition as everyday self-care, from list-driven pieces on small dietary shifts to practical high-protein meal ideas. His health reporting often includes personal stakes, using his own preventive assessments to explore early intervention. Alongside this, he covers scientists and explorers operating at the limits of human endurance, drawing on a men’s lifestyle background, a former features editor role at a major health magazine, and award recognition for both long-form and service work.

Victoria Heath is a digital editor and global health journalist for Geographical who links disease, mobility and geography in clear briefings. She covers resurgent communicable diseases such as mumps, measles and malaria, treating them as a global pattern that tests public health systems and international initiatives. Her work explains how gaps in vaccination, disrupted health services and uneven access to care drive the return of conditions that had been in decline, set against current vaccination rollouts and efforts to widen healthcare access. Within Geographical’s briefing strands she writes concise, news-driven pieces that combine data, policy context and practical impacts of health infrastructure and international coordination. As digital editor she shapes online journalism and runs travel-informed conversations with authors, adding human, on-the-ground insight to the magazine’s coverage.

Victoria Richards writes first-person health and life stories that blur confession, reported feature and advice column, using intimate case studies to explore illness, care and emotional strain. She works on the Voices desk at The Independent, where she writes opinion-led columns, edits Independent Women and answers readers’ letters as agony aunt under the Dear Vix banner. Her real beat is health told through personal crisis and family strain, focusing on fear, identity, relationships, diagnosis shock and caregiving burdens rather than clinical detail or policy. She uses close-up narrative on affairs, addiction, mental health, secrecy and guilt to show how illness and crisis redistribute responsibility within families. Her advice work treats health, work and relationships as dilemmas, while her Independent Women coverage examines gendered burdens of care, hidden labour and the emotional and practical load on women.

Vidushi Tiwari is a broadcast and digital journalist at STV News whose focus is making health systems clear and accessible across TV bulletins and online platforms. She specialises in health and social care, showing how changes in services affect patients, staff and everyday care. Her reporting turns clinical research, official reviews and health board decisions into plain language, with health coverage running through her output. She covers preventive services such as smear tests and cervical screening, patient safety issues including medication errors in hospital care, and research on avoidable deaths among adults with learning disabilities. She also reports on everyday health advice and the pressures facing health and social care workers, linking workplace conditions to patient outcomes. Across her work she explains what has changed, who it touches and how institutions justify their decisions.

Will Harris connects public services, community initiatives and everyday life, showing how health, wellbeing and local heritage schemes affect residents in Surrey and East Hampshire. He writes for Greatest Hits Radio’s local news service, producing short, tightly focused reports built around clear headlines and key facts. His health coverage centres on structured funding programmes, new services and wellbeing projects, explaining how money is allocated and what it is supposed to deliver in practical terms. He reports on technology and innovation in healthcare delivery, especially AI tools and pilot schemes in the NHS, with a focus on application, accountability and outcomes. Alongside this, he covers local history and archives as living resources for identity, education and wellbeing. His style is matter-of-fact and detail-oriented, with emphasis on what will happen next on the ground.