Health Journalistsin the USA

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 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.

Alexandra Frost is a freelance journalist and content marketing writer who turns expert-backed health and family guidance into clear, practical service stories. She covers consumer health, wellness, nutrition, preventive care, medical research, parenting, kids’ mental health, education, products, and lifestyle. Her reporting explains concerns such as inflammation, urinary symptoms, fiber, lung cancer screening, pain treatment, mobility, family dynamics, children’s technology use, and school readiness. She profiles clinicians and scientists, connects research to everyday decisions, and focuses on what readers should watch for, ask, or change. Frost currently writes across multiple outlets, including Good Housekeeping, Cincinnati Magazine, Wirecutter, Popular Science, Success, Healthline, Parents, Women’s Health, Reader’s Digest, Today’s Parent, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, TIME, Consumer Reports, Business Insider, and National Geographic. She also works as a freelance editor, media consultant, and content strategist.

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.

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 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.

Amanda Ray Byerly makes health and wellness feel public by tracing how famous bodies, generational hygiene habits, and everyday routines reflect deeper choices. She writes for Health Digest, where she covers wellness, sobriety, body change, hygiene, and anorectal health through celebrity case studies, bathroom fixtures, and age-group habits. Her pieces on alcohol, diet programs, and dramatic physical transformations use galleries, before-and-after photos, and side-by-side comparisons to show visible change and explain the pressures behind it. She also examines millennial hygiene habits, bidet debates, and how private routines become public flashpoints. Beyond Health Digest, she writes news and features for Nicki Swift, Grunge, The List, and Explore, keeping close to cycles of attention around actors, reality stars, and public officials whose personal health decisions intersect with policy and reputation.

Amy Brownstein is a registered dietitian who covers nutrition for EatingWell, translating current evidence and clinical insight into clear, actionable advice. Her beat centers on cardiometabolic health, with coverage of heart health, blood pressure, inflammation, digestion, healthy aging and sports performance. She writes about what to eat, drink and supplement, including everyday foods, beverages, protein, hydration and supplements. Her work has also appeared in Eat This, Not That, AOL and other consumer health publications. Brownstein uses comparison pieces, practical roundups and myth-busting articles to connect specific choices with outcomes such as cholesterol, energy, recovery, bone health and immune support. She reports with a safety-first approach, precise language and quantified recommendations. Her clinical, consulting and plant-based sports performance work helps her distinguish evidence from trend and turn complex nutrition research into realistic everyday choices.

Amy Glover stands out for blending personal stories with research-led health service journalism, turning new studies and expert advice into practical routines people can use. She is a lifestyle and trends writer at HuffPost UK, covering health, fitness, food and drink, everyday movement, offbeat trivia, and habit change. Her real beat is midlife and later-life health, including ageing, brain health, mental wellbeing, sustainable fitness, and practical nutrition. She explains study design and outcomes in detail, focusing on evidence, long-term behaviour change, and realistic habits. Her reporting on movement snacking, moderate workouts, cholesterol-lowering diets, batch cooking, screen use, and reading routines shows how small, tailored choices can support heart and brain health, sleep, and emotional wellbeing in everyday life.

Amy Maxmen covers how schools, workplaces, farms, and government agencies shape disease prevention outside hospitals. She is a national public health correspondent at KFF Health News. Her beat includes measles, bird flu, biosecurity, respiratory threats, covid, public health agencies, health policy, workers, patients, and inequities in care. She examines vaccine hesitancy, misinformation, outbreaks, weakened safeguards, political interference, and the effects of federal decisions on communities. She also reports on post-mastectomy pain, trauma among frontline workers, extreme heat, detention-center clinicians, life expectancy gaps, and suppressed HIV data. Her earlier work in global health and infectious disease reporting informs stories that connect local events to worldwide patterns. She previously reported for Nature and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, and National Geographic. She combines investigative reporting with explanatory science writing, detailed interviews, and documentary evidence.

Angelica Stabile brings a lifestyle lens to health reporting, linking medical treatments, wellness trends and relationship dynamics to everyday life. She is a lifestyle reporter for Fox News and Fox Business. Her recent work focuses on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, peptide therapies, cancer care, aging, public health risks and emotional wellbeing. She covers regulatory scrutiny, clinical risks, patient safety, screening, treatment options and consumer decisions. She also reports on marriage, intimacy, political conflict in relationships and practical ways couples can rebuild connection. Her broader portfolio includes food, travel, pets, parenting, science and technology, house and home, the military and Americana. Earlier work covered business, media and broader human-interest topics. She combines expert commentary with patient and consumer stories, explaining studies and clinical trial results in clear service pieces. Her reporting often follows survivors, patients, couples and communities as they turn hardship into advocacy or action.

Anya Sostek tells health stories through people, pairing clinical detail with clear narratives about disease, treatment and care systems. She is a health reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where she has covered the beat since 2004. She writes about serious illness, cancer, neurological disorders, public health crises, medical research, innovation, obituaries and community stories. Her subjects include rare diagnoses, long-shot recoveries, measles, fluoride policy, brain injuries, mobility technology, emergency training and the systems behind modern medicine. She also writes about remembrance, public service and civic life. Her earlier work covered business, education, general news and features, along with government and public policy. She reports through patient and family voices, concrete timelines, treatment details, scientific evidence, policy context and scenes from institutions and everyday life.

Ari Daniel stands out for linking global health, public health and extreme biology to human survival. He is a science reporter and freelance contributor to NPR’s Science desk. His radio work airs on NPR, The World and other science programs. He has reported across six continents on subjects from astronomy and zooxanthellae to USAID cuts, maternal deaths after childbirth and political pressure on public health institutions. He also hosts the podcast “There’s More to That.” His reporting follows systems and discoveries into real lives. He traces aid cuts through clinics and families, examines the supplies and referral systems behind postpartum bleeding, and covers how investigations of Anthony Fauci affect public health trust and staffing. He also explores pythons, deep-sea krill, fire amoebas, wildfire smoke and new antivenom research, connecting biological extremes to disease, resilience and possible treatments.

Ariana Pelosci is a managing editor at CancerNetwork and the journal ONCOLOGY who turns cancer approvals, trial results, and research data into practice-facing news. She covers new therapies, clinical outcomes, biomarkers, survivorship, quality of life, disparities, and patient care across solid and hematologic malignancies. Her reporting includes lung, breast, renal, gastrointestinal, esophageal, prostate, bladder, ovarian, and head and neck cancers, as well as lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, and myelodysplastic syndromes. She works across web and print and manages social media for both publications. Pelosci reports on regulatory decisions, drug development, pivotal trials, imaging, sequencing, exercise, nutrition, psychosocial care, and treatment de-escalation. Her work is concise and clinical, focused on evidence, practical impact, and what changes for clinicians and patients.

Ashley Broadwater combines expert-led health reporting with close attention to bodies, relationships and emotional wellbeing. She is a health and lifestyle writer at Parade, where she covers mental health, cognitive health, relationships, intuitive eating, body image, inclusive fitness and sexual health. Her service journalism turns guidance from doctors, therapists, psychologists and other clinicians into clear advice about everyday choices, communication and boundaries. She also writes about intersectional body positivity and how food, drink, clothing and other habits affect physical and emotional health. Broadwater is a therapist-in-training, which informs her empathetic focus on validation, trust and emotional safety. Her previous work has appeared in HuffPost, POPSUGAR, SHAPE, Yahoo, Men’s Health, HelloGiggles, Rewire, Giddy and The Good Trade. She occasionally interviews celebrities about health advocacy and awareness.

Ashley Fike turns research, psychology, and internet culture into clear stories about happiness, relationships, and everyday health. She is a staff writer at VICE with more than 15 years of professional writing experience. Her work spans sex, science, culture, and whatever the internet is collectively focused on, through reported features, service pieces, and recurring horoscope columns. She covers happiness habits, everyday mental health, romantic relationships, dating trends, horoscopes, science, animals, and online culture. She reports by translating studies and expert interviews into plain language and grounding advice in current psychological research and expert opinion. She focuses on small, practical habits, emotional health, communication, and how people live both online and off, linking information to emotional impact and keeping her tone direct, conversational, and closely tied to real life.

Ashley Griffin translates complex health research into clear, practical takeaways for everyday decisions. She covers how emerging studies connect lifestyle, mental health, and preventive care to aging and disease risk, with a focus on evidence-driven habits and longevity. Her work explains topics like epigenetic aging, arts and cultural engagement, nutrition, and brain health, and she consistently distinguishes association from causation. She reports closely on women’s health and weight-related research, including yo-yo dieting, gestational weight gain, and hormonal birth control and emotional eating, emphasizing specific measures and stated limitations. She also covers how young people use AI chatbots for mental health advice, highlighting usage patterns and survey data. Alongside this health beat, she reports straight hard news on public safety incidents, detailing official findings, timelines, and law enforcement actions.

Aubrey Whelan is a health and science reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer who focuses on how public health systems collide with addiction, infectious disease, and social inequality. She covers government health agencies, hospital operations, and access to care, linking policy decisions to real risks and outcomes for patients and families. Her beat centers on addiction and the overdose crisis, measles and childhood vaccination gaps, and the pressures facing hospital workforces. She reports through deeply sourced news and enterprise stories that mix policy, data, and lived experience, often co-writing when coverage spans multiple specialties or large institutions. Her work uses clear, explanatory formats and follows issues from official guidance down to community-level impacts, with a consistent focus on how public health structures and inequalities shape the care people receive.

Beth Mole is a senior health reporter who covers infectious disease, public health, and biomedical research with the precision of a microbiologist and the pace of a daily news reporter. She is Senior Health Reporter at Ars Technica and holds a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, plus formal training in science communication. Her core beat is microbes and the outbreaks they cause, and she follows epidemics closely, unpacking how pathogens, vaccines, and policy decisions shape real-world health. She has a sustained, technically detailed line of coverage on COVID-19 vaccines, boosters, and risks. Her reporting is science-first, built around primary research, study design, and mechanisms, and she is explicit about uncertainties and limits. She writes in a direct, structured style, grounded in data, with occasional wry, understated humor.

Brian Buntz covers pharma, biotech and research through data-driven reporting on applied AI, drug discovery and the R&D economy. He leads editorial at R&D World and Drug Discovery & Development, covering pharmaceutical innovation, biotech financing, laboratory technology, AI in pharma, lab automation, analytical instruments, surgical robotics and research funding. His reporting connects pipelines, policy, capital, commercialization and the technical systems behind new therapies. He builds industry rankings and original datasets, uses primary filings, deep sourcing and technical context, and designs AI-enabled editorial workflows and data pipelines. His work has appeared in News-Medical and includes features on mRNA, precision medicine, neuroscience, human tissue models and computational drug discovery. He brings nearly two decades of B2B experience across healthcare, medical devices, cybersecurity and industrial technology. He has won a national gold Azbee Award for a pharma feature.

Brian Dust is a versatile local broadcaster whose work stands out for mixing community health, sports, business and public affairs in one small-market newsroom. He reports for Effingham’s News and Sports Leader, 979 XFM and KJ Country 102.3, and he also works as promotions director and co-host of the Drive Home show, while hosting the KJ Café at midday. His health stories are human-focused and tied to local lives, with clear, practical updates on medical care and what it means for residents. He also writes high school baseball and softball recaps, scoreboards, redevelopment updates, civic coverage and other local news. His reporting is concise, conversational and easy to scan.

Bryan Walsh connects health to humanity’s future, using data-rich, solutions-focused reporting to show how big risks can be reduced and why long-term trends often look better than people assume. He is a senior editorial director at Vox, overseeing the Future Perfect and climate teams and writing the Good News newsletter. His beat links health to catastrophic and existential risks such as climate change, nuclear war, pandemics, and global disease burden, along with the policies and technologies that might prevent them. He focuses on aging, dementia, mortality, longevity, and prevention, drawing on large commissions and cohort studies to spell out modifiable risk factors and practical action lists. Walsh’s reporting is analytic and grounded in large-scale data, translating complex demographic and medical trends into plain language while keeping attention on evidence-based interventions that can improve long-term outcomes.

Caroline Bologna covers health as lived experience, connecting parenting, body image, mental health and everyday behavior to practical guidance. She is a senior reporter on the Life desk at HuffPost, with a focus on travel and culture that often links to wellness, family dynamics, stress and risk. Her reporting examines issues such as bigorexia in children and teens, fathers’ influence on boys’ development, gender gaps in diagnosis and treatment, avoidance and denial, and the effects of work, relationships and money on wellbeing. She also writes service stories about travel habits, comfort, hygiene and sleep. Bologna draws on clinicians, therapists, psychologists, researchers, legal context and family narratives. She explains complex health and behavior topics in clear terms, shows how they affect daily life, and offers concrete steps for parents, caregivers and readers. Her work has appeared in Mental Floss, Hollywood.com and BuzzFeed.

Caroline Kee is a health reporter at TODAY who turns complex medical and scientific information into clear, practical guidance. She covers infectious diseases, respiratory viruses, outbreaks, vaccines, nutrition, foodborne illness, healthy aging, sleep and internet health trends. Her reporting explains risks, symptoms, prevention and treatment, with expert advice readers can use in daily life. She tracks flu, COVID-19, norovirus and other outbreaks, examines vaccine access and recommendations, and reports on what symptoms require medical care. She compares foods, oils, jams and supplements, and translates diet advice into simple choices. She also covers longevity, dementia risk, family medical history and wellness claims such as mouth taping. Her work blends news and service reporting, using clinicians, dietitians and other specialists to test claims, explain evidence and provide specific actions. She has more than a decade of experience in health and science journalism and digital storytelling, including work for BuzzFeed News.

Carter Anderson is a staff writer at North American Community Hub. He stands out for turning dense health data, clinical studies, and regulatory language into clear, human-readable reporting. He covers health trends, medical research, wellness, and data-driven public-interest stories, with a real beat that also includes federal statistics, disease surveillance, and health policy. His work explains fracture risk in older adults, sleep health, gut serotonin, bronchitis and pneumonia, insurance coverage, mortality trends, the HTI-4 Final Rule, and the effects of Temporary Protected Status on care workers and health systems. He also writes climate, demographic, business, and education data stories. He reports with careful sourcing, precise use of official data and rule text, and step-by-step explanations that help readers judge health information and understand its daily impact.

Charles Trepany covers how health and wellness play out in modern culture, especially through relationships, body image, and online trends. He is a health and wellness reporter at USA TODAY, with work spanning mental health, self-image, internet culture, dating, masculinity, and emotional wellbeing. He reports on looksmaxxing and DIY cosmetic fillers, using expert voices to explain medical risks and how self-improvement can become self-harm. He has tested dating apps, covered wellness travel, rage rituals, fashion trends, suicide risk among children with autism, COPD, and deaths linked to kratom. His earlier work includes entertainment and family stories. He also appears on the daily podcast. His reporting combines first-person experiments, specific scenes, cultural framing, clinical explanation, and expert commentary in clear, straightforward prose.

Chloe Adams is a general assignment reporter for News 13 who stands out for coverage that links health issues to everyday life and local community concerns. She often leads health stories that turn broad public health trends into concrete risks and decisions for families and pet owners, using expert voices to connect animal care with human health outcomes. She also reports on how community institutions respond after major disruptions, focusing on arts and culture as part of long term recovery and treating theater as a civic asset. Adams joined News 13 in March 2026 and moves between hard news, health focused features, and community stories, filing clear, compact segments for the daily news cycle, including early morning newscasts. Her reporting relies on clear sourcing, accessible language, and a focus on people directly affected, built on prior experience as a television and digital multimedia journalist.

Christoph Schwaiger follows the edge of new health and neuroscience research and explains what it means for patients, clinicians and everyday readers. He is a freelance journalist mainly covering health, science, technology and current affairs, with regular coverage for specialist outlets. His reporting combines close reading of medical and scientific studies with plain-language coverage of complex conditions, brain science, infectious disease and consumer AI tools. He writes on neuromodulation, imaging, sleep, cardiovascular health, the immune system, genetics, chronic disease, unusual pathogens, nutrition and everyday health choices. He also reports on artificial intelligence, consumer technology and wider science and current affairs. His stories have been published by outlets including Live Science, Tom’s Guide, Scientific American, New Scientist and Euractiv. He hosts discussions and appears on broadcast news programs and shows, extending his beat into live conversations about technology and public issues.

Claire Cameron is breaking news chief at Scientific American, where she turns new research in health and science into fast, focused stories. Her beat spans health, neuroscience, performance, and the physical environment. She often covers how structural conditions shape children’s development and how neighborhoods, practice, and specialization affect brains, talent, and life chances. She also reports on environmental and atmospheric phenomena, such as ultraviolet sparks in thunderstorms. Her writing explains study design, statistics, and complex findings in clear, plain language for a broad audience. She leads rapid coverage across science, health, and technology and works with freelancers on reported enterprise pieces, profiles, and features.

Conz Preti is a deputy editor at Business Insider who combines first-person essays, narrative editing, and audience strategy to cover modern family life. Her beat spans parenting choices, family routines, caregiving, aging, health, relationships, college life, and culture. She writes about raising young children, balancing care for children and older relatives, children’s media, travel with three children, screen limits, quitting coffee, returning to tennis, and the costs and meaning of beauty habits. She also edits stories on elder care, housing, trans families, and changing grandparent roles. Preti leads editors, reporters, and freelancers and rebuilt the parenting and health section. She previously launched international editions at BuzzFeed and developed audience strategy at Netflix. She wrote Too Pregnant To Move and contributed to 100 Diverse Voices on Parenthood.

Corey Washington is a health-focused journalist at Patch who turns fast-moving outbreaks, emerging diseases, and complex government programs into clear, actionable guidance for readers across California. He draws on more than two decades covering California news to show how public-health threats and policy decisions affect everyday life. Washington closely tracks infectious-disease developments, including measles, deadly tick-borne diseases, and foodborne parasites such as Cyclospora, grounding his work in statewide and national data and clear case counts. His reporting is distinguished by detailed symptom explainers and specific prevention steps that families can use at home. He also covers federal savings initiatives for children, breaking down tax-advantaged accounts, eligibility rules, investment guardrails, and fraud risks. Alongside this core public-interest work, he handles broader news and sports assignments, including coverage of LeBron James’s future, with the same straightforward, fact-first style.

Cormac McCrimmon tells stories where health, the environment and rural life meet, using on-location video, photography and clear writing to show how big systems shape everyday risks and care. He is a multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker with Rocky Mountain PBS, covering communities across Northern Colorado through video, photo-driven features and reported text pieces. His beat centers on outdoor health and environmental risk, rural access to medical care, underrepresented patients, wildlife, agriculture and community resilience. He reports on climate-shaped health threats, crowded public lands, avalanche danger, moose encounters, drought-strained farms, ranchers adapting to change, urban bear incursions and changing mountain ecosystems. Across his work, he relies on immersive, character-driven reporting, field access and strong visuals to keep individual narratives at the center while pointing to structural gaps in who gets timely, culturally responsive care and how rural communities navigate environmental change.

Corrie Pelc reports on how medical research reshapes chronic disease care for Medical News Today, with a distinct focus on brain aging, dementia prevention, metabolic health, and weight management. She covers Alzheimer’s risk, vaccines, nutrients, blood pressure, hormone therapy, diabetes remission, GLP-1 drugs, diet, exercise, cardiovascular risk, arthritis, bone health, and emerging treatments. Her work has also covered research on alopecia areata, heart failure, shingles vaccination, and AI-designed drugs for chronic conditions. She writes study-led news features that explain treatments and lifestyle strategies through concrete outcomes. She highlights expert commentary, trial design, sample size, duration, risk percentages, and population-level impact. Her reporting translates complex neurology, cardiology, endocrinology, rheumatology, and aging research into clear numbers and timelines while showing what rigorous data means for long-term health.

Daley Quinn is a freelance beauty and wellness journalist whose service-driven work for Byrdie connects skin health with everyday beauty. She covers dry, sensitive, and irritated skin, product ingredients, skin tools, hair and scalp care, thinning, breakage, color, self-tan, fragrance, and lifestyle. Her work has appeared in Women’s Health, Allure, Real Simple, Well+Good, Glamour, The Cut, WWD, and other digital and print outlets. With more than ten years of experience, she reports through dermatologist and expert interviews, product testing, lab insights, ingredient research, and clear comparisons. Her stories explain problems such as dryness, clogged pores, irritation, and hair loss, then offer practical, tightly selected recommendations. She also writes about beauty, health, fashion, travel, and modern living on The Daley Dose, and works as a copywriter and content strategist.

Dan Vergano is a senior editor at Scientific American whose work stands out for tying health science tightly to federal policy, clinical research and the ethics of powerful institutions. He now steers news coverage that starts from rules, trials and contested diagnoses rather than lifestyle advice, and brings decades of science reporting experience from Grid News, BuzzFeed News, National Geographic and USA TODAY. His beat centers on health policy, clinical trials and contested conditions such as Havana Syndrome, focusing on how federal regulations, professional societies and advocacy groups interpret evidence and shape care. He reports by unpacking timelines, case counts, rule language and funding structures, foregrounding data, uncertainty and institutional power. He also mines Scientific American’s archives and his earlier science coverage to place today’s health controversies in a longer story about how science, medicine and society change.

Darren Incorvaia connects the molecular mechanisms inside new therapies with the data and corporate decisions that shape whether they succeed. He is a senior writer at Fierce Biotech, where he covers drug development, research, policy and the business side of biotechnology. His beat spans oncology, vaccines, metabolic and neuropsychiatric disease, and the next wave of therapeutics, with pieces on lipoprotein(a and pelacarsen, “paradox” BAP1 mutations, Orf virus-based cancer vaccine platforms and GLP-1 drugs and depression. He reports on AI, genomics and data governance, including deep learning models that mine genomic “dark matter” and restrictions on access to controlled NIH databases. He also covers restructurings and failures through special reports like the “Biotech Graveyard.” Beyond Fierce Biotech, he has written science, health and environmental stories for major newspapers and science publications.

David Mills is a veteran health journalist who explains how changes in medical definitions and clinical guidelines affect diagnosis and care. He is now a freelance writer after serving as a news editor at Healthline. His work focuses on heart failure, early detection, risk reduction, treatment decisions, chronic disease management, and classification systems that shape clinical practice. He reports on how updated guidance changes the way clinicians identify risk, track disease, and target care. His articles use expert voices, concise explanations, and plain language to translate technical developments for broad health audiences. Mills has worked across newspapers, television news, and online information websites. His editor’s discipline shows in tightly structured stories that begin with the central change, explain key terms, and connect formal guidance to patient outcomes and real-world care.

Devi Shastri is a public health reporter at The Associated Press who connects infectious disease, misinformation and gaps in basic services to community health. She focuses on measles outbreaks, vaccination gaps, housing access, the social safety net and medical misinformation. Her coverage includes national case counts, county-level quarantines, school disruptions and the effects of persistent outbreaks on families, patients and front-line providers. She also reports on youth mental health, substance use, addiction, crisis lines and access to care. Her service journalism covers healthy aging, fall prevention, extreme weather safety and disease prevention. She previously covered health, medical science and higher education for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Shastri combines data-heavy reporting, fact checks and practical guidance. She tests public claims against data and expert consensus, then explains how policy, infrastructure and trust shape health outcomes.

Donna Shryer turns complex medical and care-system issues into clear guidance for everyday decisions. She reports on health and wellness, including supplements, stress, preventive care, integrative therapies and chronic conditions. She also covers aging, senior living, long-term care, staffing shortages and the care workforce for McKnight’s publications. Her consumer health features have appeared in Chicago Health, and she has written for national health organizations. Shryer is the author of two books on nutrition. Her reporting is research-heavy and detail-oriented. She explains label claims, evidence, risks, costs and practical checks, while stressing coordination with physicians and pharmacists. She uses data, expert commentary and patient narratives to examine how care decisions affect individuals, families, retirees and frontline staff.

Dr. Diana Rangaves is a pharmacist and health writer who uses clinical expertise to answer practical questions about medications, diagnostics, and everyday care for readers of Blavity’s health coverage. A board-certified pharmacist with experience in senior care, mental health, and finance, she grounds her reporting in clinical research and professional guidelines. She focuses on how specific medications behave in the body, how risks are monitored, and what informed, collaborative decision-making looks like. Her work explains SSRIs, MRI limits in nerve damage, ACL tear imaging, diabetic foot and nail care, and home comfort and sleep as parts of chronic condition management. She also covers brain health nutrition, viral wellness trends like “protein maxxing,” and how nutrients, aging, and cognitive decline connect. Her stories build from reader questions and walk through medical details step by step in plain language.

Dr. Keith Roach is an academic physician and syndicated health columnist at USA TODAY who answers individual readers’ concrete medical questions in his long-running Dear Doctor and To Your Good Health columns. His beat is clinical guidance, not general wellness or health policy. He covers chronic illness, aging, infectious disease, mental health, diagnostic tests, lab results, medications, treatment risks, and quality of life. Topics include rheumatoid arthritis, hypercalcemia, osteoporosis, fatigue, cognitive aging, vaccine choices, prion disease, and rare treatment complications. As an associate professor of clinical medicine, he explains conditions, differential diagnoses, evidence, standard treatments, and risks in plain language. His letter-and-reply format resembles a clinical consultation. He grounds recommendations in research, clinical guidelines, and trial data rather than testimonials, and focuses on what each patient should understand and discuss with their own clinician.

Dr. Omer Awan is a physician and senior public health contributor at Forbes who uses clinical training to explain health risks, medical science and health policy. He covers outbreaks, vaccines, food safety, chronic disease, diet, cancer screening, diagnostic technology, healthcare costs and the Affordable Care Act. His past work includes explainers on Cyclospora, cholesterol, breast cancer and FDA-approved AI for breast cancer detection, along with fact-checks on vaccines, autism and the immune system. He also works in academic medicine and medical education, with senior responsibilities in radiology education and a recurring column answering questions from residents and medical students. He reports through fact-checking, evidence-based guidance and systems analysis. His style is direct and teaching-oriented. He explains complex science, policy and clinical issues in plain language, then gives practical steps for patients, professionals and the public.

Emily Warrender is a health-focused editor and content writer whose work tracks how public health, clinical research and social care policy intersect with government decision-making. She is a senior editorial lead at Open Access Government, working across digital content and thematic sections. Emily’s beat spans vaccination campaigns and public health programmes, mental health and family violence prevention, and the health dimensions of education and research systems. She reports on vaccination initiatives for young people, mental health support, safeguarding processes and multi-agency collaboration, as well as how open access publishing and higher education infrastructures shape health outcomes. Her articles combine summaries of peer-reviewed research with practical implications, pay close attention to implementation detail, and explain how evidence-based interventions and cross-cutting policy choices affect vulnerable populations and frontline care.

The Endocrine Society makes hormone health usable as a science, public health, and policy issue. It is the world’s largest organization of endocrinologists, with more than 18,000 physicians and scientists, and it serves as the voice of the endocrine field. It works now through journals, clinical practice guidelines, the Endocrine Library, training, and media webinars. Its real beat is hormone-related disease and exposure, including endocrine-disrupting chemicals, obesity, diabetes, infertility, bone health, reproductive health, and hormone-related cancers. It covers how hormones shape risk, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, and it explains mechanisms, clinical implications, and policy meaning. It reports through evidence-based statements, topic hubs, thematic collections, and educational resources that turn experimental, clinical, and epidemiological research into practical guidance for clinicians, patients, journalists, and policymakers.

Eric DeGrechie tracks neighborhood health risks, policies and community safety issues at a very local level, turning agency alerts and complex guidance into clear coverage for the communities he edits for Patch. He is an editor with more than 25 years of experience in journalism and media, with past roles in newsroom leadership and reporting. He now covers towns including Northbrook, Glenview, Deerfield, Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove and nearby suburbs. His beat blends breaking news, public health updates, disease surveillance and community safety. He reports on communicable and environmental health risks, especially West Nile virus in local mosquito populations, and explains pandemic and school health policies in briefings. He also profiles public health workers and covers crime and safety incidents with health implications, favoring concise, fact-driven updates rooted in official sources.

Eric W. Dolan is the founder, publisher, and editor of PsyPost, where he turns peer-reviewed psychology and neuroscience research into clear reporting on mental health, political attitudes, adolescent development, artificial intelligence, and human wellbeing. His archive spans clinical depression, dementia, menopause, stroke, autism, loneliness, cannabis use, sleep, video gaming, political polarization, Christian nationalism, antisemitism, and gendered social behavior. He also covers how AI and digital tools affect learning, cognition, and mental health. His work connects biological systems, behavior, technology, relationships, and social life. He explains what researchers measured, how studies were designed, and what the findings show, with attention to sample size, longitudinal evidence, effect sizes, and clinical relevance. His reporting emphasizes careful sourcing, methodological detail, and restrained interpretation. He has worked in science journalism for more than fifteen years.

Erica Sweeney stands out for specialized women’s health reporting, with a focus on physiological transitions like menopause and overlooked issues such as how hormonal changes affect oral health. She covers health and wellness by translating medical research into practical, daily strategies instead of abstract theory. Her work emphasizes preventive health, detailing expert-recommended management practices rather than just listing potential problems. Sweeney reports as a cross-platform health authority, maintaining consistent, authoritative coverage across major publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and health-focused outlets like Everyday Health and AARP. She connects scientific findings to clear routines readers can adopt right away.

Erika Edwards is a veteran health and medical reporter for NBC News and “TODAY” who stands out for translating complex public health threats into clear, evidence-driven stories about risk, science and the people caught in the middle. She covers infectious disease outbreaks, health policy and public trust, with recent sustained reporting on the MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak and what quarantine and conflicting guidance meant for exposed passengers. Covid-19’s long tail is a core focus, including data-grounded pieces on persistent symptoms and the added danger of underlying conditions. She closely tracks trust in health agencies, vaccines and shifting federal guidance for children and pregnant women. Across digital, on-air and social video, she uses data, expert voices and real-world experiences, explains medical evidence and study design, and resists sensationalism to keep the emphasis on medical facts and risk communication.

Erin Garcia de Jesús explains how microbes, viruses and other health threats shape everyday life, focusing on what new research means for people. She is a staff writer at Science News, reporting across infectious disease, vaccines, antibiotic resistance, genetics and public health, and also writes for Science News Explores. Her core beat follows how microbes move through the world and how science tries to stop them, with work on measles, lingering Ebola infections, and climate-driven changes that fuel antibiotic resistance. A second thread in her coverage is equity and representation in health research and care, including who is left out of genetic datasets and how that shapes disease risk. Trained as a microbiologist with a Ph.D. on virus–host interactions, she reports from dense primary literature, stays close to experimental detail, and translates mechanisms into plain, short, evidence-led stories for general and younger readers.

Fernando Haro stands out for turning public health, safety risks, and policy changes into practical local reporting. He is a Local Editor for Patch, covering San Francisco and the East Bay. His beat sits at the intersection of health, science, and local news. He covers communicable disease alerts, including exposure sites and public guidance, and reports on statewide laws by showing how they change daily life. He also covers natural hazards, missing-person cases, protests, and business decisions when they affect community wellbeing, workers, and access to food. His reporting stays close to officials, timelines, and concrete impact.

Freya Taylor stands out for tight, human-led reporting on how health and safety issues affect ordinary people. She reports on health, safety and social wellbeing for Rayo’s South Coast services. Her beat covers illness, mental health, consumer risk, public safety and regional news. She uses local voices and expert commentary to explain how national issues play out in daily life. Her stories have covered access to kidney cancer treatment, chronic illness, suicide websites, bereavement support, grief education in schools, fraud warnings, cybercrime, hot tub safety, air traffic controller shortages, a serious assault in Exmouth, heritage sites at risk, reading for pleasure, and a murder verdict outside Southampton Crown Court. She focuses on clear, accessible updates that foreground the people affected and the experts trying to change policy or behaviour.

Futura Team is a collective byline at Futura-Sciences that turns complex health and nutrition research into clear, service-focused stories on everyday habits, longevity, and performance. They write across the Health section with a shared editorial voice on food, supplements, and everyday health, and also contribute to Environment and space coverage. Their work explains how specific foods and supplements like creatine and legumes affect ATP production, fatigue, cognition, bone health, gut health, and long-term disease risk. They break down traditional centenarian breakfasts and other “powerhouse” meals into their core components and nutrient profiles. Each piece moves from mechanisms and long-term studies to brief technical points and then practical, prescriptive takeaways, encouraging realistic, sustainable routines rather than quick fixes or extreme interventions.

Gabby Landsverk’s distinctive beat is translating complex health and performance science into practical routines, with a sustained focus on cancer risk, early detection, and everyday prevention. She is a Health Correspondent at Business Insider covering nutrition, fitness, longevity, performance, elite athlete routines, strength training, peptides, supplements, GLP-1 medications, and disease prevention. Her earlier work included research for a New Yorker investigation into medical care in correctional facilities. She reports through investigative stories, case-based narratives, expert interviews, medical detail, and field reporting at health conferences. Her coverage connects food, movement, environmental exposures, screening, and long-term disease risk to specific actions, such as diet swaps, hydration, exercise, radon testing, and reducing toxins. She also examines patient experiences, fitness subcultures, hormone and men’s health treatments, and the systems and incentives shaping health care and wellness markets.

Glenn Coin explains how science, technology and the environment shape public health and everyday life, especially through large, complex projects and the risks they bring. He is the science and technology, weather and environment reporter for Syracuse.com and The Post-Standard and also covers Micron Technology’s plans. His beat links disease, public health and emerging health risks to the natural and built environments, from rare bacteria that cause Lyme disease to Covid-19 lessons and rising health care costs. A major strand of his work is sustained coverage of the Micron semiconductor complex, where he turns multi-decade investments, long impact reports and policy debates into clear milestones and takeaways. As a weather and environment reporter, he uses records, measurements and regulatory documents to frame storms, climate trends and hazards in calm, practical terms. Across formats, his reporting is analytic, document-driven and focused on what changes for residents’ health, finances and routines.

Gretchen Reynolds is a Washington Post health columnist who turns exercise science into practical advice for everyday life. In her “Your Move” column, she covers how movement affects longevity, disease risk, brain health, aging, muscle loss, falls, dementia, cancer and Type 2 diabetes. She writes about short workouts, strength training, high-intensity intervals, exercise snacks, walking, bodyweight routines, wearables and how work and leisure activity affect health. Reynolds explains new studies in plain language, focusing on dose, intensity, timing and routines that require little equipment. She has reported on exercise and health science for more than 15 years. Before joining The Post, she spent 16 years at The New York Times, where she created the “Phys Ed” column. She also popularized the scientific 7-minute workout and wrote a nonfiction book on exercising more effectively and living longer.

Hank Berrien is a news reporter at The Daily Wire who connects medical research to real-world risk, especially when accepted “healthy” habits prove dangerous. He also covers Israel, Jewish communities, global media bias, terrorism, national security, gun rights, cybersecurity, digital platforms, and political conflict. Notable work includes reporting on research linking popular fats to pancreatic cancer risk, British actions after Israel shared terror intelligence, Jewish numbers returning to pre-Holocaust levels, BBC coverage of Israel, aviation terror, Iran, gun laws, cyber threats, and investigations involving political figures. His short, hard-news pieces focus on one development, legal step, study, or set of quotes. He uses plain, direct language and relies on documented statements and direct quotations from politicians, activists, military figures, and institutional leaders.

Hannah Harris Green is an investigative health journalist who examines how drugs, health technologies and care systems shape everyday life. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian, covering drug policy, mental health and the business of health care. Her reporting focuses on addiction, new therapies, cannabis, psychedelics, digital health, AI chatbots, social media harms, cancer, infectious disease, HIV prevention and reproductive health. She connects patient experience with medical evidence, regulation, policy and corporate responsibility. Green also writes independently and has reported for science, technology and global affairs publications, including Slate, VICE, The Verge, BBC Future and Marketplace. Earlier work covered South Asia, human rights, media, identity and social justice. She uses primary research, expert interviews, regulatory records, data and audio reporting to explain complex systems and their effects on people.

HealthDay is a dedicated health news wire that turns emerging medical research and health policy developments into clear, usable information for general readers and professionals. It syndicates a high volume of tightly written, evidence-based stories that keep the U.S. News health desk current on medical and wellness reporting. HealthDay’s core beat is health and medicine, with regular coverage of drugs, therapies, and clinical research, including GLP-1 medications, pediatric allergy prevention, and cannabis-based medicines for mental health and substance use disorders. It also reports on mental health, brain science, youth behavior, and patient safety and health system performance. Across topics, HealthDay stresses peer-reviewed studies, study design, strength of evidence, and practical implications, delivering concise, fact-dense service journalism for both consumer and clinician audiences.

Hilary Brueck is a Business Insider health correspondent who stands out for turning frontier longevity science into clear, practical advice for everyday life. She covers longevity and the quest to improve human aging, along with brain health, GLP-1 drugs, cancer, exercise science, nutrition, and public health. She also serves in a senior editorial role overseeing health contributors. Her reporting blends rigorous research, public health data, and plain language, and she often shows how diet, exercise, sleep, relationships, and emerging biotech affect how long and how well people live. Before Business Insider, she wrote for Forbes, Fortune, and ABC News, among other outlets.

Isabella Cueto is a chronic disease reporter at STAT. Her distinct focus is alcohol’s role in America’s public health crisis, including how policy choices, the alcohol industry, and regulation shape harm. She covers the U.S. alcohol epidemic, MetALD, alcohol-associated liver disease, Parkinson’s disease, chronic disease research, diagnosis, and treatment. Her reporting also examines the Trump administration’s handling of national health epidemics, including MAHA, Medicare and Medicaid oversight, insurance premium hikes, and other chronic disease issues. She spent months on the contradiction between alcohol’s danger and its lighter treatment in policy. Cueto joined STAT in 2021 as the inaugural Sharon Begley-STAT Science Reporting Fellow. She previously covered local news in California, South Carolina, and South Florida.

Jackie Roman is a healthcare reporter who combines breaking news with service journalism, focusing on how public health risks, health systems and the drug industry affect patients. She covers health care for NJ.com and The Star-Ledger, reporting on public health threats, pharmaceutical developments and the business side of care. Her work explains timely outbreaks and high-profile events in plain language, turning them into practical guidance on which risks matter most and how readers can respond. She reports on health systems, cybersecurity and patient data, detailing what breaches expose and what remedies follow. Her background in community reporting on local news and school districts shapes coverage that links national developments to everyday concerns. Across stories she relies on official data and agency guidance, keeps complex issues straightforward and shows how policies, products and systems change the experience of care.

Jamie DePolo specializes in translating complex breast cancer research into clear, actionable information for patients, with particular focus on treatment innovations and their real-world impact on different patient groups. She is a senior editor and podcast host at Breastcancer.org. Her beat is breast cancer research, treatments, side effects, screening, survivorship, and quality of life. She breaks down clinical trials by explaining study design, patient populations, treatment protocols, and statistical results, and identifies which subgroups benefit most from specific therapies. She closely tracks emerging drugs, evolving ideas like oligometastatic breast cancer, and new FDA approvals, always linking them to patient decisions and daily life. Her reporting and conference coverage are precise, evidence-based, and grounded in direct conversations with clinicians, researchers, advocates, and people diagnosed with breast cancer.

Jeff Wagner stands out for turning everyday health and science questions into clear, practical answers through CBS News Minnesota’s Good Question franchise. He is an anchor and reporter for CBS News Minnesota, where he now anchors the station’s 4 p.m. newscasts after joining WCCO-TV in 2016 as a general assignment reporter. His beat centers on public health, science, and the daily choices that shape them, from tick-borne disease and climate change to coffee, childhood vaccines, screen time, nutrition, and pet insurance. He reports in a conversational style, using detailed interviews, expert sources, and long-term context to explain what the evidence and official guidance mean for everyday decisions.

Jeff Gelski connects health, nutrition and food safety trends to how the commercial food industry really works, linking scientific research and regulation to the business decisions of major food brands and ingredient suppliers. He is a senior editor for Food Business News and Milling & Baking News and has covered the food industry for trade publications since 1997, with bylines across MEAT+POULTRY, Baking Business, Supermarket Perimeter, Dairy Processing, Bake Magazine and World-Grain. He reports on health, nutrition, consumer understanding, food safety incidents, contamination, regulation, dietary guidelines, agricultural health policy, ingredients, processing and category strategy. His stories lean on data, surveys, regulatory notices, company statements and facility-level detail to show how nutrition science, consumer education and policymaking shape recalls, manufacturing, risk management and how companies design, position and label health-focused products.

Jenna Ryu focuses on translating exercise science into clear, minimal-dose movement guidelines that maximize longevity benefits. She writes for Outside, where she turns complex health studies into practical recommendations without oversimplifying the science. Her reporting centers on underreported thresholds in exercise research, such as evidence that 1.5 hours of weekly strength training can significantly delay mortality and that three hours of weekly exercise reduces mortality risk. She closely examines participant demographics, measurement methods, and effect sizes, and she brings in direct explanations from lead researchers, including sports psychologists on how music enhances performance. Within health reporting, she specializes in strength training’s metabolic, cognitive, cardiovascular, and bone density impacts, highlighting time-efficient protocols like effective 10-minute floor workouts and linking specific movement patterns to cellular aging and fall-related mortality in older adults.

Jillian Wilson is a senior wellness reporter whose beat centers on practical, myth-busting health coverage that turns expert insight into clear next steps. She is the senior wellness reporter at HuffPost, where she focuses on mental and physical health and actively debunks health misinformation. She reports on emotional strain, body care, disease warning signs and relationship recovery, tying personal feelings to wider political, social and cultural forces. Her service journalism breaks complex topics into small habits and “little ways” lists that explain what everyday choices mean for hygiene, illness risk and mental wellbeing. She also brings a wellness lens to lifestyle, travel, food and happiness, using lived experience and clinician and therapist interviews to show how culture and routine shape health. Her work has also appeared in regional newspapers, travel outlets and dining-focused publications.

Joe Lawlor focuses on how health systems, public programs and everyday life intersect, treating health and human services as a people-first beat. He reports for the Portland Press Herald on health care delivery, social services, public health and state safety-net programs, centering residents who navigate paid leave, medical billing and access to care after a crisis. His stories pair policy detail with case studies to show how laws, regulations and hospital decisions play out at home and at work. He has written extensively on medical costs, insurance and confusing bills, public health risks like ticks, and environmental health issues such as PFAS. He reports from inside hospitals under strain, covers gun violence and trauma care, and tracks how new benefits land for specific groups. A 24-year newspaper veteran, his style is explanatory, data-grounded and written in clear, everyday language.

John Gever is a contributing writer whose strength is clinically grounded reporting that turns complex study data into clear signals about risk, benefit, and cost. He covers biomedicine, medical technology, pharmaceuticals, and in vitro diagnostics, with recurring work on rheumatology, chronic musculoskeletal disease, sports injuries, hospital practice, diagnostic standards, and health economics. His reporting examines arthritis treatments, vasculitis drug safety, employment effects of rheumatic disease, athletic injuries, playing surfaces, hospital advertising, infection control, emergency care, DSM-5 changes, doula support, and outbreak costs. He currently writes for MedPage Today and partner outlets. He previously worked across clinical research, health services, and medical industry reporting, including years in medical, science, and business journalism. He emphasizes study design, sample size, numerical outcomes, adverse events, and real-world effects rather than anecdote or personality-driven narrative.

John Ingold is a co-founder of The Colorado Sun and a health reporter who explains Colorado’s health care system as a mix of policy, money, science and everyday experience. He focuses on health policy, insurance, the cost of care, prescription drugs, genetics, medical innovation, public health threats, climate, and infectious disease. His work tracks how state programs and federal decisions affect what people pay, what coverage they get, and how medicines are developed and delivered. He is known for clear, calm reporting that turns complex health topics into plain language, and he often moderates expert discussions and leads public conversations on health policy and open enrollment. Before The Colorado Sun, he spent 18 years at The Denver Post. He has also covered criminal justice, state and federal courts, gun violence, and marijuana legalization, and was part of The Denver Post’s 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning breaking news team.

John Ismay covers how military decisions affect people’s lives, especially health, safety and casualties. He reports for The New York Times on the Pentagon, armed conflict and the defense industry. His work examines vaccine policy on bases, civilian deaths in airstrikes, naval mines, troop readiness and the risks of prolonged deployments. A former Navy explosive ordnance disposal officer and deep-sea diver, he brings technical knowledge of weapons, explosives and battlefield hazards to his reporting. He explains how mines are laid and cleared, how weapons systems fail and how defense decisions affect service members, civilians and commercial shipping. His notable work includes At War blog reporting, an investigation of a secretive special operations unit and coverage of troops exposed to abandoned chemical weapons. He uses official documents, field reporting, expert voices and technical detail to examine human costs and institutional accountability.

John Miller connects health to institutions, infrastructure and everyday life in northern New Mexico. He is the northern New Mexico correspondent and a staff writer for the Albuquerque Journal, where he covers hospital finances, infectious disease, local business and regional history. His real beat is how decisions by health systems, schools and other institutions affect people who live and work in this part of the state. He reports on health systems and hospital finances, state oversight and forensic audits, public health and disease outbreaks, earthquakes and other hazards, federal releases on UFOs, and stories about citizenship and identity. He also writes about small businesses, boutique hotels and community spaces in and around Taos. Across these subjects he uses concrete timelines, numbers and local voices to show impacts and place health, hazards and history in the same landscape.

John Wilkerson is a Washington correspondent at STAT whose reporting centers on the politics of health care and the mechanics of federal health programs, rather than clinical science or hospital stories. He writes STAT’s twice-weekly D.C. Diagnosis newsletter, an insider’s guide to the politics of health and medicine that follows deals, personnel changes, and policy experiments in the U.S. health system. He covers how decisions in Washington reshape insurance, drug markets, and access to care, with repeated deep dives on Medicare, Medicaid, drug pricing, and insurer behavior, including employer-based coverage and billing codes. His work tracks FDA leadership, clinical trial policy, and GLP-1 drugs, using individual cases and technical details to show how legislative and regulatory decisions, lobbying, and political fights over cost, equity, and security shape who gets care and on what terms.

Jonathan Lambert is a global health correspondent on NPR's Science Desk whose most distinctive work tracks Ebola outbreaks from first case counts through global health emergency declarations, explaining both virus biology and failures in response systems. He covers global health with a long-running focus on science, health and policy, often on the limits of testing, surveillance and funding in low-resource settings. His reporting has appeared in outlets such as The Atlantic and Nature. He reports on Ebola in Central and East Africa, foreign aid cuts, fragile health systems, cash assistance and infant mortality, antibiotic overprescribing and resistance, and how income and infrastructure shape health. He also uses basic science and physiology stories on stress, training and performance to explain methods, metrics and uncertainty. He combines on-the-ground reporting, interviews and data to translate complex epidemiology and policy into clear, concise narratives.

Juan Siliezar leads Brown University School of Public Health media relations and writes clear, data-first stories on public health and medical research. He is Associate Director of Media Relations and Leadership Communications, where he leads earned media strategy and works with researchers on study-driven story ideas. His beat centers on epidemiological and clinical evidence, access to care, health systems, prevention, and everyday health. He covers lung cancer screening, children’s sleep, vaccination and aging, telemedicine in mental health care, private equity ownership of primary care, Dry January, and environmental health. He explains methods, sample sizes, percentages, and clinical outcomes, then turns them into plain implications for patients, clinicians, and health systems. Before Brown, he did feature reporting for the Harvard Gazette and wrote about culture and protest, including hip-hop playlists and police violence.

Julia Musto connects health, science and climate reporting to the everyday risks and choices facing people in the US, translating complex research into clear, practical stories about how people live now. She is The Independent's US science and climate correspondent, covering extreme weather, climate change and a broad range of scientific topics. Her beat spans health, science and climate, with recent work at the intersection of public health, behaviour and the environment, grounded in new studies and expert testimony. She uses tightly framed case studies, large observational studies and accessible language to test common beliefs about body image, weight-loss drugs, outbreaks, communication and mental health. She follows live illness clusters using state and federal data, and reports on flash floods, tornadoes and space missions. She writes reported features and explainers with measured, precise prose and a strict focus on evidence over opinion.

Julia Pugachevsky reports on how daily habits, routines, and tools shape physical, mental, and family health. She is a senior health reporter at Business Insider, covering fitness, nutrition, longevity, early-onset colon cancer, modern parenting, caregiving, AI at home, and Gen Z’s retreat from social media. Her Power Hours work examines how high-performing people structure their days. She also writes about relationships, loneliness, divorce, alcohol, and behavior change. Pugachevsky often uses her own health experiments, including mood tracking, body composition changes, protein intake, and drinking habits, to explain risks and measure progress. Her reporting combines personal narrative, expert advice, clear metrics, and practical frameworks. Her work has appeared in the BBC, CBS, Bloomberg Radio, Morning Brew, Fast Company, and the Daily Flash. Earlier editing roles covered education, personal development, and sex and relationships.

Julie Kendrick turns medical, scientific and culinary expertise into practical guidance for everyday choices. At HuffPost, she covers consumer health, including nutrition, inflammation, chronic conditions, genetics, hygiene and daily routines. She explains how habits around food and self-care affect long-term wellbeing, using clear reporting and concrete recommendations from specialists. Her food writing focuses on artisan cheesemakers, regional cheese traditions, cheese science, aging, quality, pairings and serving ideas. A freelance journalist, she has also written for Condé Nast Traveler, EatingWell, Delta Sky, Allrecipes, Costco Connection, Minneapolis Star Tribune and USA Today’s 10Best. Across health, food, lifestyle and travel, she writes reported, service-driven features that explain how things work and show readers what to do with that knowledge. Her style is evidence-based, accessible and focused on manageable actions.

Julie Sagoskin covers health, wellness and aesthetic medicine with a mix of celebrity‑driven storytelling and precise medical sourcing that links beauty treatments to clear changes in bodies and lives. She is a health and wellness writer at the New York Post and holds a senior editorial role at Park Magazine, with experience at The US Sun. Her beat spans plastic surgery, weight loss interventions, GLP‑1 transformations, cosmetic procedures and everyday self‑care, often framed through vivid case studies and expert explanations. She reports on issues like “Ozempic earlobes,” surgical regret, gastric bypass and foot health, and uses specialists’ quotes to spell out risks, limits and long‑term habits. She also explores celebrity and luxury wellness rituals, showing how high‑gloss spa culture, fitness routines and aesthetic treatments connect to practical takeaways for readers.

Karen Garcia stands out for turning breaking news into practical help. She is a reporter on the Los Angeles Times Fast Break Desk, and previously worked on the paper’s Utility Journalism Team. Her beat blends health, safety-net programs and everyday systems, with coverage of public health threats, Medi-Cal, In-Home Supportive Services, caregiving, transit and local government decisions. She often writes clear explainers that answer what readers need to know now, from disease risks and weather shifts to lost items on Metro and benefits paperwork. She also reports in Spanish, including on immigration raids and the difficulty families face finding detained loved ones. Before joining the Times in 2021, she wrote for local newspapers and worked in radio.

Karla Perez stands out for turning routine health alerts into clear, community-focused guidance. She reports on Connecticut’s infectious disease outbreaks and public health alerts, with steady coverage of measles cases, West Nile virus detections, and seasonal influenza trends. She has also covered occupational health issues for state workers, especially firefighters, including cancer screening coverage and what it means for those without insurance coverage. At her reporting core, she tracks emerging infectious disease cases and explains transmission risks, vaccination efficacy, prevention steps, and insurance details in plain language. Her stories often use direct quotes from Department of Public Health officials and give readers practical context they can use to assess personal risk and take preventative action.

Karla Walsh is a freelance health and lifestyle journalist who turns nutrition, fitness, and wellness research into clear, useful guidance. She works for Woman’s World and other consumer titles, covering food, movement, psychology, self-care, travel, home, and lifestyle. Her food and drink work includes recipes, dining trends, product features, chef interviews, and food news. She also writes wellness travel guides, hotel previews, stress-free flying advice, and practical lifestyle upgrades. Her work has appeared in TIME, Better Homes and Gardens, Runner’s World, Bicycling, Shape, and Allrecipes. Walsh reports through expert interviews, current studies, and research recaps. She writes service features, Q&As, lists, how-to guides, product reviews, and trend explainers. Her approach connects total-body health with motivation, stress, behavior, pleasure, and everyday routines.

Katelyn Mullen is a managing editor at AOL Shopping who focuses on health-centered service journalism that blends expert guidance with practical product recommendations to help readers make everyday wellness decisions. She has more than eight years of experience finding products that are worth readers’ time and money, with coverage at the intersection of health, beauty and daily life. Her reporting tackles real-world choices like sunscreen selection and coping with hot flashes, using specialists, clear explanations and straightforward, actionable advice. She also oversees and contributes to commerce content on wellness, beauty, household essentials and toys, linking product features to concrete outcomes and drawing on hands-on testing. Her previous senior content strategy work in digital media shapes an emphasis on clarity, testing and outcome-based evaluations, so readers come away with what experts say and a shortlist of products that align with that guidance.

Katie Adams focuses on how hospitals adopt AI and other technology under financial and operational pressure. She is an associate editor at MedCity News covering providers, healthcare technology, medical devices and regulatory matters. Her reporting examines hospital AI deployments, clinical workflows, startup products, executive decisions and health system finances. She writes about AI scribes, ambient listening, clinical decision support, cybersecurity, workforce effects and gaps in testing and oversight. She also tracks provider technology funding, medical devices, digital care platforms, hospital mergers, operating margins, payer behavior, bankruptcies and healthcare leadership changes. Her regular Healthcare Moves series and MedCity Moves podcast cover hires, exits, promotions and layoffs. She reports through hospital leaders, clinicians, investors and executives, connecting strategy and technology to bedside care, staffing, access, reimbursement and margins. She also covers public health surveillance, including wastewater monitoring.

Kerry Benefield is a columnist and senior reporter who uses individual stories to show how health, safety and community systems affect people’s lives. She works at The Press Democrat, where she has been in the newsroom since 2003 and brings long familiarity with politics and breaking news to her focus on the lived impacts of health and social issues. Her beat sits at the intersection of public health, personal experience and local institutions, with sustained attention to health, aging, isolation, cardiac arrest, reproductive rights, school safety and mental health support. She reports through detailed, scene-driven narratives that translate policy and data into concrete, day to day meaning, often centering one person’s story. Her columns follow human stories behind local institutions and everyday places, and she writes in a reported-column format that combines interviews, scene-setting and clear exposition.

Kim Schewitz covers the culture of health optimization and how the drive to “maxx” the body shapes everyday life, pop culture, and business. She is a health reporter at Business Insider with a beat focused on longevity, evidence-based habits, and the wellness economy. She reports on posture training, VO2 max workouts, and simple longevity routines, treating health metrics and trends as lifestyle choices people actively design. Nutrition is a core thread in her work, from heart-healthy food swaps to eating 30 different plant foods a week and the convenience foods experts rely on. She often runs first-person experiments, from becoming a morning person to using a continuous glucose monitor, to see what fits real life. Her reporting blends expert interviews with clear narratives, using individual stories and her own habits to test health optimization against practical reality and mental wellbeing.

Kirsten Nunez is a freelance health, food, and lifestyle journalist who turns scientific research and expert insight into clear, practical guidance. She writes about nutrition, everyday health, hygiene, fitness, wellness, medical and mental health topics, sustainable living, and plant-based cooking. Her nutrition explainers examine foods, dietary components, seed oils, and diet trends through peer-reviewed research and advice from dietitians, clinicians, and other specialists. She also reports on health habits, prenatal dental care, emerging therapies, supplements, and wellness devices, separating clinical findings from marketing claims. Alongside reported features, she creates vegan recipes, dairy-free desserts, and cooking guides for Clean Green Simple and has developed recipes for health food brands. Her work has appeared in Real Simple, Martha Stewart, Shape, SELF, MyRecipes, VegNews, Mindbodygreen, Hunker, and eHow. She uses direct, evidence-based service journalism, often in list and Q&A formats.

Korin Miller is a freelance health and wellness writer who specializes in general wellness, sexual health and relationships, and lifestyle trends. She writes regularly for Women’s Health and her work also appears in Men’s Health, SELF, Prevention, Yahoo, Byrdie, Glamour, and PopSugar Health. Her beat spans health news explainers, prevention advice, celebrity health and wellness narratives, sexual health and relationship coverage, product roundups, and cultural and legacy features. She focuses on complex medical information, evolving health trends, and nutrition science, turning them into clear, action-focused stories. Her reporting relies on physicians, specialists, therapists, sexual health professionals, researchers, and registered dietitians, using their expertise to demystify terminology, clarify risk and prognosis, and give readers practical guidance they can use in everyday life.

Laura Ungar makes the hidden workings of public health systems visible, tracking how budget and political decisions reshape care for patients and communities. She covers medicine and science on the Associated Press global health and science team, drawing on more than two decades of health reporting. Her work examines funding cuts to local health departments, documenting layoffs, reduced vaccination clinics, restaurant inspections and outbreak response, and similar strains on programs providing free medicines to low-income patients. She reports deeply on pediatrics, vaccines, maternal health and autism, explaining guidance while exploring why families resist it and how labels and policy debates affect children with profound needs. Ungar also covers movements that challenge medical evidence, alcohol risk research and dietary guidance, and everyday health behaviors like walking, using detailed interviews, data and clear explainers to connect high-level policy with real-world health.

Lauren Chan reports on how health care data and artificial intelligence shape medical care, policy, and patient outcomes. She is the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellow at STAT, where she focuses on health coverage with an emphasis on health care AI and data. Her beat centers on how data-driven tools and AI are integrated into care, and what that means for safety, accuracy, workflow, evidence quality, bias, and algorithm reliability. Drawing on a nutrition research background, she frequently covers cardiometabolic disease, prevention, and risk, including Covid vaccination and heart health and continuous glucose monitors in very young children. She also reports on access, disability services, insurance premiums, rare disease and compassionate use, and how funding and regulation shape who gets care. Her work blends technical literacy with patient-centered reporting, using large studies, clear numbers, and close attention to how tools and policies affect everyday care.

Award-winning multimedia journalist and host of KJZZ’s The Show, Lauren Gilger stands out for in-depth audio storytelling that links health issues to the real lives of families and communities. She brings an investigative eye to health, focusing on injustice and on people overlooked by health systems, policy, and institutions. Her reporting traces the consequences of medical decisions, regulation, and systemic failures for patients and families, with coverage of parents and newborns, public health, sleep during COVID-19, and everyday health choices. She has also reported on the systemic separation of immigrant families in detention and on Maricopa County’s eviction problem. She uses interviews, expert voices, and narrative detail to make complex subjects plain.

Lauren Manaker is a registered dietitian and health writer best known for testing foods, supplements, and wellness trends on herself, then explaining the results through nutrition science. She is a frequent Prevention contributor covering women’s health, wellness, lifestyle nutrition, and fitness. Her work includes healthy eating experiments with kale, walnuts, ground beef, tinned fish, vitamin D, lemon water, and wellness shots. She also writes about gut health, fiber, fermented foods, inflammation, nutrition labels, macronutrients, and food comparisons such as wild versus farmed salmon. Her fitness coverage includes Pvolve and posture trends. She contributes to EatThis.com, Verywell Health, and EatingWell, and shares research-informed nutrition content on Instagram. She combines personal experiments, expert input, clinical evidence, and practical advice focused on moderation, variety, safety, and sustainable habits.

Lauren Weber is a health and science accountability reporter at The Washington Post. Her beat is the forces promoting scientific and medical disinformation, especially on vaccines, drugs, nutritional supplements, and health-care treatments. She also covers the politics and policy behind health outcomes, including how false claims, industry interests, and government decisions affect public health, mortality, and access to care. Before The Post, she covered the public health system for Kaiser Health News and was a health policy enterprise reporter at The Huffington Post. Her reporting uses documents, tax and financial records, data, interviews, and expert testimony, and she tracks misinformation across mainstream and alternative platforms. She explains complex health issues clearly and often steps readers through why claims are false and what the evidence shows.

Lena H. Sun is a national health reporter at The Washington Post whose work stands out for closely engaging with scientific research and expert consensus and explaining why officials make specific recommendations. She covers how infectious disease, vaccines and health systems shape public life, with core reporting on emerging and ongoing threats such as global outbreaks, Ebola, avian influenza and pandemic risk. She translates complex epidemiology and evolving risk assessments into clear guidance, focusing on where diseases spread, who is most exposed and what tools officials have to contain them. She reports deeply on vaccines, booster policies, misinformation, institutional trust and health agency politics, tracing how guidance is developed and implemented. Her coverage also includes food safety and everyday health risks, consistently emphasizing detailed sourcing, conflicts of interest, and the communication of scientific rationale in a polarized environment.

Leslee Hackett highlights how structured learning opportunities turn health and education research into everyday skills and decisions. She is a communication specialist for AgriLife Today, where she advances webinars, workshops, courses and field days across health, wellness, food safety, nutrition policy, caregiving and Extension programming. Her core beat is community-facing health education, including brain health and aging, exercise and lifestyle programs, food handlers courses, student nutrition accommodations, mental health, and caregiving for special populations. She also covers horticulture, pesticide use in turfgrass systems and field days on production practices and technology. Hackett writes concise, straightforward event previews that spell out who-what-when-where, target audiences, logistics, learning objectives, compliance elements and professional development value, emphasizing clear language, practical takeaways and the public health or quality-of-life benefit of participation.

Liam McInerney is a content editor and feature writer at The Mirror whose health coverage sits at the intersection of everyday lifestyle, expert explanation and the wider news cycle. He turns subjects such as ageing and nutrition into clear, accessible stories built around real people, television documentaries and practical guidance. He also covers royals, crime and culture in longform, story-led pieces that use vivid detail and direct quotes to make complex issues easy to follow. His health work centres on ageing, diet and daily wellbeing, with pragmatic, service-led reporting that starts from a news hook and ends in everyday steps readers can take. In royals and politics he focuses on small human exchanges and memorable phrases, while his crime writing highlights psychologically charged moments. His culture and book features use film, television and literature as narrative tools, often in first person, and he has been recognised internally for longform writing.

Lisa L. Colangelo turns complex health science, risks and policy decisions into clear, usable information about everyday life. She is a health staff writer for Newsday, where she has worked since 2019. Her beat includes consumer health hazards, seasonal safety, chronic disease, vaccines, infectious disease, cancer, organ donation and public health policy, with a focus on Long Island patients and providers. She has reported on nanoplastics, hearing damage, sun protection, Lyme disease, allergies, RSV, COVID-19, emerging treatments, alcohol-related cancer risk, Medicaid and menopause. Her earlier work at amNewYork, the New York Daily News and the Asbury Park Press covered politics, government and general assignment. She grounds stories in research, expert explanation, local data and lived experience. She also explains costs, access, risks, treatment options and practical steps for readers.

Marilyn Schairer reports for GBH News on how health care systems, workers and patients intersect. Her beat covers hospital safety, labor conditions, public health threats, illnesses, shortages and the effects of policy decisions on patients and communities. She has reported on violence and security rules at Tewksbury State Hospital, union drives at Mass General and primary care practices, nurse fatigue, cyclospora, alpha-gal, toxic algae, colorectal cancer, IVF, hospital closures and morphine shortages. Her broader work includes schools, camps, arts organizations and 9/11 legacies. She combines interviews and frontline narratives with clear explanations of complex health topics, balancing workers’, patients’ and clinicians’ experiences with official responses. She previously worked as a television news anchor, reporter, public affairs host and weather anchor. Her recognition includes a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award, a PMJA News Series Award and regional Emmy nominations.

Mary Kekatos stands out for turning infectious disease and public health research into clear, practical reporting on risk, vaccination and everyday health. She is a Health & Science Reporter for ABC News and leads coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and related health issues. Her beat centers on outbreaks, vaccine gaps, vaccine policy and governance, COVID-19, long COVID, nutrition data and other public health trends. She has reported on measles in Texas, mpox, Ebola and other high-consequence pathogens, and she has used data tools and interactive maps to show local vaccination coverage and risk. Her reporting blends breaking news, explainers, features and data-driven stories, with regular use of federal datasets, official reports, peer-reviewed studies and expert interviews.

Mary Walrath-Holdridge stands out for turning fast-changing health risks, research and trends into plain, action-focused explainers built around what to know and how to stay safe. She is a reporter on the National Trending team at USA TODAY, where she connects health, money, lifestyle and culture in clear, practical terms. Her core work covers infectious disease alerts, food safety, recalls, vaccines, seasonal hazards and animal welfare, consistently tying big-picture data and official guidance to everyday choices like drinking, infection protection, banking and shopping. She also reports on identity and social norms, consumer and financial trends, lifestyle and retail stories, and detailed explainers on high-profile people, events and archival controversies. Across topics from COVID-19 variants and cyclosporiasis to banking forecasts, Halloween decor and government records, she uses detail-rich reporting to show how national trends shape health, stress and daily routines.

Matthew Perrone is a health writer at The Associated Press who covers how medicine, money and health policy shape patient care. His core beat is the FDA and health regulation, including tobacco and nicotine products, vaccines, abortion pills, testosterone, cancer blood tests and obesity drugs. He also reports on drug safety, medical innovation, foodborne outbreaks, inspection gaps, telehealth, data privacy and emerging health threats. His coverage has included cyclospora contamination in lettuce, a blood test for multiple cancers, unofficial weight loss drugs, Hims & Hers, alpha-gal syndrome and monkeypox treatment. Over more than a decade on the health beat, he has combined regulatory reporting, investigative work and clear explanations of complex medical issues. He draws on agencies, court proceedings, advisory panels and investigative findings to explain what rules mean, what risks remain and how patients may be affected.

McKenzie Beard is a wellness reporter for the New York Post who turns medical research, health policy and wellness trends into practical service stories. She covers health, fitness, diet, medicine, nutrition, food and viral trends, with a focus on everyday health problems, new treatments, experimental therapies, gut health, outbreaks and patient experiences. Her reporting examines GLP-1 drugs, menopause peptides, biohacking, psychedelic retreats, hair loss, diet and digital communication with doctors. She combines plain-language explainers, first-person features, trend stories, expert advice and clear takeaways. Earlier, she spent three years covering health policy for The Washington Post’s daily newsletter. Her work has also appeared in Teen Vogue and Voice of America. Her policy background helps her connect personal health choices with legislation, insurance and regulation.

Megan Brooks is a long-tenured medical writer and editor at Medscape who stands out for tight, study-driven reporting on how drugs, supplements, technologies, and environmental exposures change risk and outcomes. She covers neurology, oncology, cardiology, infectious disease, and other specialties, with especially deep work on brain health, dementia, stroke, and neurodegeneration. Her reporting tracks clinical evidence closely, often using trial data, cohort studies, imaging findings, and effect sizes to explain what the results mean for practice. She also writes on device-based and digital therapies, heart failure monitoring, cancer-related cardiac risk, and emerging treatments in neurology and psychiatry. For more than 30 years, she has focused exclusively on science writing for a professional clinical readership, producing concise news stories that foreground key numbers, caveats, and clinical decision-making.

Megan Molteni is a science writer at STAT whose work centers on how advances in genomic medicine and neuroscience intersect with power, policy, and inequity in health. She treats health stories as stories about systems, following the path from molecular findings and funding decisions to long-term outcomes for patients and communities. She covers genomic medicine, synthetic biology, and the human genome, including the first human pangenome, newborn DNA sequencing, CRISPR, and engineered bacteria with redesigned genetic codes. Her beat also includes neuroscience, brain health, and therapeutics, with reporting on Huntington’s disease, Alzheimer’s drugs, and how social conditions shape brain development. Her public health and infectious disease work, including HIV and Covid-19, draws on past coverage of biotechnology, public health, and genetic privacy. Across her reporting, scientific advances are treated as political and ethical events that demand scrutiny.

Melissa Rudy connects medical research and infectious threats to real-world health risks and decisions. She is senior health editor and a lifestyle team member at Fox News Digital, where she oversees health news and features. Her beat includes infectious diseases, emerging health threats, chronic disease, substance use, aging, mental health, cancer prevention and treatment, rare diseases, women’s health, new drugs and unconventional therapies such as psychedelic-assisted treatment. Her reporting has covered drug-resistant fungus, tuberculosis, measles, alcohol and marijuana risks, ovarian cancer, GLP-1 drugs, accelerated aging after the 9/11 attacks and estrangement. She combines study findings, trend data, expert guidance and personal stories. She explains complex research in clear terms and focuses on practical prevention, screening and treatment decisions for patients and families.

Melody Schreiber covers the intersection of public health, science, and lived experience, with a distinct dual focus on health and the Arctic. She is a health contributor and reporter for the Guardian US and writes widely on health and science for national outlets, as a regular contributor to Guardian US and NPR and a columnist for the New Republic, with additional work in publications such as the Washington Post, Scientific American, Wired, and The Atlantic. Her beat includes infectious diseases, vaccination, emerging public health threats, mental health, trauma, youth, and high-pressure professions. She reports with rigorous research, clear explanation of complex health issues, and close attention to everyday impact, using official data, new studies, expert interviews, and narrative reporting. She also covers Arctic environmental change and geopolitics, linking climate and ecological shifts to public health and community experience, informed by reporting from every continent.

Mia Sullivan is a health writer known for practical, food-centered advice that challenges common assumptions about what counts as healthy. She writes for MSN, contributing consumer health coverage that connects everyday grocery choices with nutrition and long-term wellness. Her work foregrounds food as a primary lever for better health, using familiar freezer aisle and produce items to show how storage, processing, and timing affect nutrient retention and make convenience foods part of a balanced diet. Sullivan focuses on accessible explanations of nutrition trade-offs, highlighting cost, shelf life, and practicality alongside vitamins and minerals. She reports in a concise, service-oriented style, organizing digital health pieces around specific items, lists, and clear takeaways so readers can adjust what they buy and how they cook in a regular supermarket without specialist knowledge or restrictive plans.

Micah Drew reports on how government decisions shape the environment, wildlife, public institutions and civil liberties. He is a reporter at the Daily Montanan covering state and local politics, environmental policy, health and science. His work examines climate litigation, wildlife management, party leadership, elections, fundraising, privacy rules, data centers and corrections infrastructure. He has covered the Held v. Montana youth climate case, wolf hunting quotas, deer license limits tied to disease, political contests and campaign finance reports. His reporting also addresses surveillance technology, ballot initiatives and prerelease centers. He has written for Sierra Magazine, The Spokesman-Review, Washington Times and U.S. News & World Report. He focuses on policy mechanics, legal process and hard numbers, tracking statutes, court decisions, agency actions, filings, dates and formal agreements. He also uses data and charts to strengthen his stories.

Michael Levanduski is a human-centered writer for TwistedSifter who focuses on how health, stress and emotional wellbeing shape everyday conflicts at work, at home and in the community. He reports on workplace stress, power imbalances and policy decisions that affect employees’ mental load, financial security and sense of agency. He covers family dynamics where caregiving, money and health collide, as well as housing and neighbor disputes that show how resentment and pressure harm relationships. His beat also includes mental health themes like imposter syndrome and everyday self-doubt, which he explains through research and accessible language. He sometimes writes science and environment features that translate technical studies into clear narratives. Outside TwistedSifter, he runs a content-writing business producing structured, scenario-driven articles for websites, blogs and online magazines.

Michele Ross turns health, fitness, skincare, and stress research into clear, expert-backed advice for everyday routines. She is a freelance writer of more than a decade and currently writes regular service features for GQ on wellness, grooming, life advice, and related topics. Her beat covers strength training, longevity, sleep, stress, stretching, skincare, grooming, hair loss, eczema, psoriasis, rosacea, and emerging treatments such as exosome procedures and red light therapy. She also writes about viral wellness trends and mental wellbeing. Her work has appeared in Marie Claire, Oprah Daily, SELF, Teen Vogue, VICE, Well+Good, and others. Ross reports by consulting trainers, physicians, dermatologists, and other specialists, then translating research into practical routines, focused explainers, product guidance, and realistic advice.

Michelle Roberts is a doctor and health editor who connects medical evidence to practical decisions about everyday health. She is Health Editor of the BBC News website, shaping digital health coverage and coordinating a team of specialist reporters, and also works as a senior broadcast journalist across BBC News. She focuses on consumer health, lifestyle and prevention, turning new research and guidance into clear stories on movement breaks, walking, fruit and vegetable intake and heart health. She reports on treatments, drugs and medical evidence, such as antibiotic research on gepotidacin and popular supplements, asking how well they work, what the risks are and who benefits. Roberts explains studies and policy in plain language, highlighting expert views, avoiding jargon and keeping the focus on efficacy, safety and real‑world impact.

Nick Longworth stands out for showing how health policy becomes real-world consequences for patients and families. He covers health policy, insurance, and public health for FOX 9. His beat includes health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, hospitals, academic medicine, environmental exposures, air and water quality, medical research, health technology, mental health policy, infectious disease, and fraud in health and nutrition programs. He also reports on local health ordinances, including bathhouse regulation. His past work includes reporting on 2027 insurance rates, insurer changes, Medicaid provider losses, the University of Minnesota–Fairview agreement, PFAS contamination, air pollution, pancreatic cancer AI, medical cannabis, social media warnings, and Medicaid fraud. He reports with clear figures, deadlines, plan names, legal records, and research findings. He explains who is affected, what risks or costs follow, and what people need to do next.

Paige Sutherland is a senior producer for the national program On Point who builds long-form audio conversations that treat health as a thread running through policy, culture and everyday life. She develops episodes that move from parental mental health to outdoor safety, public health at the border and economic insecurity, always tying individual wellbeing to larger systems. Her beat centers on health, risk and everyday life, with a focus on how habits, environments, money and regulation shape bodies and minds. She reports and produces by structuring each hour around clear questions and tightly focused themes, bringing in officials, experts and affected people. Her past work includes podcast production on a health-oriented show for CNN Audio and radio reporting on policies such as Chile’s ban on commercial plastic bags, tracing how laws and culture translate into concrete changes for ordinary listeners.

Patrice Peck is a health journalist at the New York Post who tests medical hype against evidence, expert scrutiny and real-world trade-offs. She covers medical studies, brain health, longevity, daily habits, women’s health, fertility, childbirth complications, mental health, environmental exposures and health care quality. Her reporting explains what new findings mean for ordinary people, from lab-grown neurons and dementia risks to smart toilet seats, indoor air pollution and hospital rankings. She also examines overlooked anatomy, psychiatric symptoms and the limits of buzzy breakthroughs. Peck combines scientific detail, patient stories and service journalism. She reports through interviews with clinicians, toxicologists and other specialists, while explaining statistics, thresholds, symptoms, risks and caveats. Her past editorial and feature work includes bylines in major national magazines and newspapers, with a long-standing focus on underreported stories involving race, culture, identity, inequity and representation.

Rachael Robertson is an enterprise and investigative health reporter at MedPage Today who focuses on ob/gyn research, reproductive health access, medical misinformation, artificial intelligence, and public health. She also created and hosts MedPod Today, a biweekly podcast that adds context to major healthcare stories. Her work connects research with patients’ lives, public policy, access, trust, and the quality of evidence. She reports on topics including alcohol use in pregnancy, contraception, emergency contraception, chronic disease, cognitive decline, healthcare systems, and public health narratives. She works across print, data, and audio, using research, guidelines, survey data, patient-facing information, and personal stories. Her reporting has appeared in Everyday Health, Gizmodo, and the Bronx Times. She also examines how popular culture, social platforms, and emerging technologies shape trust in medical expertise.

Rachel Murphy stands out for linking health research to personal finance and everyday decisions. She writes for Verywell Health and works as a freelance journalist with more than 15 years of experience. Her past bylines include Money, Byrdie, Investopedia, Health.com, Forbes Advisor, and CNET. She covers diet, nutrition, cardiovascular health, chronic disease risk, health coverage, medical costs, retirement planning, saving, and investing. Her reporting explains how evidence, affordability, policies, and product features affect real choices. She translates studies and complex health systems into clear service stories, including nutrition coverage that explains mechanisms, study design, limits, and the need to follow prescribed treatment. She uses interviews, original data, expert perspectives, and research findings. Her writing is direct and practical, showing what evidence means, what remains unknown, and how health and money decisions affect one another.

Rachel Sacks connects everyday symptoms and habits to deeper health issues, turning complex medical research into clear, practical guidance people can use early, not just in crisis. She is a wellness reporter for The New York Post and a freelance health writer focused on preventive health, men’s health and how people actually feel in daily life. She covers subtle warning signs, “embarrassing” symptoms, sexual health, autism treatments, hormones, menstruation, mood, cognition, aging and long-term risk. Her work explains how exercise, walking, metabolic rate, body composition and lifestyle choices affect anger, fatigue, temperature, dementia risk and cardiovascular health. She reports in straightforward language, relies on expert interviews and recent studies, and structures stories as explainers or numbered guides that translate research into small, concrete behavior changes.

Ramon Sun is a health journalist at The Independent who writes as an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, using his own metabolic research to explain serious disease, especially Alzheimer’s. He covers how biochemical pathways and common supplements shape disease progression, with a flagship piece linking glucosamine use in people with Alzheimer’s to a 25 per cent higher five-year mortality based on a study he coauthored in Nature Metabolism. His beat centers on metabolism, brain glycogen, protein glycosylation and metabolomics, showing how changes in a single metabolic node can shift brain chemistry and outcomes. He reports in an evidence-led explainer format, starting from peer-reviewed data, unpacking mechanisms in plain language, and focusing on what findings mean for patients, carers, clinicians and people weighing supplement and nutrition choices in the context of neurodegenerative disease.

Reda Wigle writes at the intersection of belief, the body and everyday life, using an astrologer’s eye and a frank, sometimes irreverent tone to make health-adjacent stories feel immediate and human. She moves from horoscopes and tarot spreads to features on sexual risk, stress and behavior, connecting research and expert insight to the intimate choices people make. As an astrologer for AOL and other lifestyle outlets, she covers zodiac traits, compatibility, celebrity lists and playful identity stories that match signs to fairy tales, vampires, motherhood archetypes and even bagel types. Her horoscopes key celestial events to rituals, cleaning and “purging,” turning astrology and occult language into practical prompts. Beyond astrology she reports on sexual strangulation, vaccination, paranormal beliefs, stress, viral consumer incidents, retail shifts and offbeat wellness stories, always focused on how ordinary people experience risk, ritual, comfort and disgust.

Roni Robbins is a veteran health journalist who shows how health policy, medical advances and lifestyle choices play out in people’s lives, focusing on Georgia patients, providers and systems. She is in her second stint as a freelance health reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and also freelances for medical and health-industry outlets, including Medscape/WebMD. Her reporting centers on health systems, workforce gaps and the business of care, clinical advances and serious disease, preventive health and lifestyle risks, and chronic conditions, technology and younger patients. She uses clear, service-focused language, blends clinical detail with practical takeaways, and grounds coverage in local trials, case studies and data. Her stories connect institutional decisions, research and innovation to real patients, caregivers and community services rather than abstract policy.

Ryan Helcoski brings a dual perspective as a PhD researcher and science reporter, focusing on Utah-based scientific work and how it affects local communities. He currently reports on life sciences and environmental health, translating complex biotechnology, ecology, and public health research into clear stories that stress methods and practical outcomes. His coverage includes CRISPR Cas12a2 cancer research using patient-derived cells in mouse models, anxiety studies on microglia “accelerator” and “brake” functions, and Utah State University work on elephant bone distribution and carcass-site ecosystems. He explains field techniques like transects and camera traps and maps how environmental factors such as heat, fine particulate matter, and nitrogen dioxide shape suicide risk through layered genetic, trauma, and situational influences. He also examines Utah’s dietary supplement industry and its regulatory gaps.

Sam Stroozas reports on how health policy and social systems shape everyday life, focusing on access, equity and the people navigating new rules and resources. She is a reporter and digital producer at MPR News on the health beat and helps steer digital coverage of books, race and community stories. Her health reporting follows policy from city government meetings to statewide decisions, showing how health rules are written, challenged and implemented. She covers menstrual products and youth health as basic infrastructure, and centers students’ daily experience over abstract policy. Her digital work highlights community voices on race, land and identity, linking cultural institutions and Indigenous programs to resilience and wellbeing. She also works on books coverage, event roundups and staff reading lists, and has previously reported on environmental research, climate action, restaurant culture and neighborhood institutions across formats including video, social content and photography.

Savannah Wiegel uses a clinical translation lens to connect advanced genomic technologies to patient outcomes, drawing on her multidisciplinary background in molecular biology and narrative medicine to make complex diagnostics accessible. She is an associate editor at GEN, where she focuses on clinical genomics and infectious disease applications. Her reporting covers sequencing technologies in pediatric and cancer diagnostics, epigenomic research defining acute myeloid leukemia subgroups and drug sensitivities, and CRISPR screening work on host factors that shape HIV infection. She explains how virology, epitope editing, and targeted antibodies can reduce toxic therapies in stem cell treatments and documents rare disease initiatives and microbial ecosystem research, including gut health and ancient human virology. She specializes in showing how biotechnologies such as bioanalytical antibodies, mass spectrometry systems, organoid platforms, and ferroptosis-inducing nanoparticles solve specific research problems and inform therapeutic development.

Scott Stump tells health and wellness stories through the lives of real people, often where public health, stress, parenting and popular culture meet. He is a trending reporter and the writer and editor of the daily newsletter This is TODAY for TODAY Digital and NBC News, where he covers the day’s news, health and other high-interest topics in a concise, accessible format. His beat includes public health decisions, wellness trends, stress relief, parenting, fear and resilience, and TODAY culture and personalities. He reports in a straight news style with feature elements, leading with the person affected while keeping policy, agency actions and expert insight in view. He uses clear timelines, direct quotes, plain language and practical tips so readers can see both the emotional impact and the broader health and wellness issues behind each story.

Sebastian Krawiec is an editor at Nutritional Outlook who connects ingredient science, clinical evidence, regulation, and formulation strategy. His beat covers the microbiome across gut, skin, and women’s health, as well as brain and cardiometabolic health, sports nutrition, weight management, and healthy aging. He reports on ingredients such as prebiotic fibers, probiotics, magnesium, CoQ10, ubiquinol, DHA, mushrooms, vitamin K2, phospholipids, and peptides. He also covers dosage forms, delivery systems, product formats, and supply-chain developments. His regulatory reporting examines GRAS rules, NDIN enforcement, claim approvals, and controlled compounds. He uses studies, regulatory decisions, trade-show intelligence, expert interviews, and session previews to explain how science and shifting rules affect product design, positioning, compliance, and market opportunity. Earlier, he was managing editor of WholeFoods Magazine.

Shweta Pandey stands out for treating beauty routines as everyday health decisions, blending skin, hair, and wellbeing into clear, expert-backed service journalism. She is a Senior Content Writer at Hindustan Times with over 12 years of experience in beauty and wellness journalism, and also writes lifestyle content for Healthshots. Her beat covers makeup, skincare, hair care, and health and wellness, with a focus on skin health, sun protection behind glass, irritation, and long-term damage. She reports on sweaty, itchy scalps, hair fall, and scalp health through dermatologist input and simple routines. Her guides to perfumes and lipsticks link product choices to comfort, longevity, and real-life wear. Across outlets, she defines everyday problems, consults specialists, and turns advice into practical steps readers can use.

Sofi Gratas stands out for focused reporting on rural healthcare access and the gaps that shape care in underserved communities. She is the rural health care reporter at Georgia Public Broadcasting. Her beat covers rural health and health care, with close attention to hospital closures, emergency service limits, budget cuts, workforce shortages, unclear insurance messaging, Medicaid expansion, rural hospital funding, clinical trial access, and the effects of state policy on primary care. She also reports on public health risks tied to major events, wildfire evacuations, and airport security staffing. Her work is rooted in on-the-ground field reporting and uses radio, digital, and social media to bring in patient and provider voices and explain complex policy in plain terms.

Sophie Clark stands out for turning health, politics and technology stories into human cases with clear policy stakes. She is a health-focused journalist on The Independent’s US news desk and works as a freelancer across national outlets including The Telegraph, The Spectator and Metro. Her beat covers health risks, medical innovation, US politics and social trends. She often starts with one patient, then widens to the rules, power and culture behind the story. She has reported on rare infections, AI in healthcare, protest and policing at the Lincoln Memorial, changing views of Donald Trump, and the Trump era’s symbols and aftershocks. She also writes features on how digital communication reshapes dating and daily life. Her work appears in news, features, commentary, video and audio.

Staff Writer is a staff writer at OnTheWight whose work centres on practical public health and wellbeing stories rooted in local campaigns and services. They turn official initiatives and community outreach into clear, usable information for residents and businesses, with a focus on prevention, safety and mental health support. Their beat includes public health campaigns, safety guidance, youth mental health services and civic campaigns that affect local services. They cover how council environmental health programmes translate technical regulation and legal duties into everyday actions for accommodation providers and their customers. They report on youth mental health outreach, highlighting concrete events, resources and creative tactics that make support more visible. They also use podcast-led features to follow electoral campaigns and democratic participation. Across formats, their reporting is concise, direct and built around what people are being asked to do in practice.

Stefani Sassos brings laboratory rigor and nutrition expertise to practical health coverage at Good Housekeeping, where she leads the Nutrition and Fitness Lab. A registered dietitian and fitness professional, she covers nutrition, wellness, fitness, supplements, family health, recipes and health-related products. Her reporting explains new research, including studies on ultra-processed food, and answers practical questions about topics such as zinc and children’s supplements. She creates meal plans, healthy recipes and grocery guides with clear targets for calories, fiber and protein. She also tests and ranks snacks, candy, vitamins, fitness gear and maternity products through lab testing, label analysis, taste testing, research review and parent feedback. She writes the “Inside the GH Nutrition Lab” column and contributes to Woman’s Day, Prevention, Harper’s Bazaar, Delish, CNBC Grow, Newsday and Healthline. Her work is calm, precise and evidence-based.

Tanya Lewis stands out for reporting on how medicine, policy and human bodies intersect under pressure. She is a senior editor covering health and medicine at Scientific American, where she writes and edits news and features for the website and magazine. Her beat includes infectious disease, global health systems, biomedical innovation, transplantation, reproductive health, physiology, genetics, biotechnology and neuroscience. She covers Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks, organ transplants and xenotransplantation, medication safety in pregnancy, extreme heat, hidden carbon emissions, parenting and brain science. Her reporting combines case data, modelling and research with patients’ experiences, lab work and strained health systems. She hosts or co-hosts Your Health, Quickly and has appeared on Science Quickly. She writes the weekly Health & Medicine newsletter. Her work has also appeared in Wired, Science News, Insider, The Scientist, Business Insider and Live Science.

Tara Rosenblum connects health crises, policy decisions and public safety through long-form investigative reporting at News 12. She leads the Turn to Tara investigations unit and hosts political and criminal justice programs. Her beat spans vulnerable communities, mental health, addiction, the 9/11 health crisis, fraud, corruption, crime, courtroom cases, environmental and infrastructure risks, roadway safety, elections and policy. She has covered Bernie Madoff, Ben Novack Jr. and Robert Durst, multiple presidential campaigns and the heroin epidemic. She spent four years reporting on the 9/11 health crisis and has covered major criminal cases through convictions and sentencing. Her reporting combines documents, data, officials, affected communities and on-air investigation to show how health, safety and power intersect. Her work has earned National Edward R. Murrow Awards, Emmy recognition and civic and humanitarian honors.

Terry Graedon connects patient experience, folk remedies and scientific evidence. She is a medical anthropologist, co-founder of The People’s Pharmacy website, co-host of its long-running radio show and co-author of its nationally syndicated newspaper column. Her beat is consumer health protection, pharmaceutical safety and the science behind home remedies. She covers medications, supplements, herbal products, nutrition, the microbiome, inflammation, chronic complaints, heart disease, dementia, depression and the effects of outdoor activity and hospital design on health. She also examines treatment risks, overtreatment and the businesses behind herbal products. Graedon draws on decades in medical communications, public health and participatory medicine. Through interviews, call-in programs and reported pieces, she asks direct questions, tests popular claims against clinical data and gives people practical information for weighing medical and alternative treatments.

Tom Perkins is a freelance reporter whose Guardian work examines how toxic chemicals affect health through everyday products, food, water, and household exposure. He covers PFAS and other persistent pollutants in breast milk, condoms, lubricants, food packaging, plastics, cookware, and human blood, as well as contamination near industrial plants. His reporting connects peer-reviewed research and lab testing with risks including cancer, liver problems, birth defects, fertility issues, and blood pressure disorders. He also covers pesticide policy, attempts to weaken PFAS limits, chemical industry influence, and regulatory decisions. Notable Guardian work includes reporting on chemicals in breast milk, PFAS-contaminated water and food, and a farm bill criticized as a pesticide industry wishlist. He writes service journalism on microplastics, kitchen cleaning, cookware, and practical ways to reduce exposure. He foregrounds affected communities, public-health advocates, and independent scientists while examining industry and policy.

Toufiq Rashid is a health and lifestyle journalist at Firstpost, known for a prevention-first style that turns clinical evidence and public policy into clear, practical stories. With over 25 years in print and digital media, she covers how systems, environments and habits shape long-term physical and brain health. Her beat includes child health, diabetes, obesity, nutrition, ultra-processed foods, ageing, menopause, tobacco in diabetes care and infectious disease outbreaks. She reports on child health screening, junk food marketing, healthy ageing and emerging science with strong expert sourcing and structured explanations. Her work often starts with a policy or study, then shows what it means for families, care systems and everyday choices.

Youri Benadjaoud reports for the ABC News Medical Unit on how outbreaks, recalls and health policies affect public risk and protection. His work covers infectious diseases, including measles, West Nile virus, cyclosporiasis, Ebola, dengue and influenza. He also covers foodborne illness, product recalls and regulatory investigations involving E. coli, salmonella and other pathogens. His reporting includes vaccine safety, emerging therapies, healthcare costs and access. He has contributed to coverage published across digital, audio and video platforms, including reporting on a Pennsylvania measles outbreak and an FDA investigation into lettuce linked to cyclosporiasis. Benadjaoud follows case counts, locations, historical comparisons and official responses. He uses surveillance data, regulatory updates, peer-reviewed evidence and expert interviews. He explains what health authorities advise, including when to avoid products, watch for symptoms or seek vaccination and care.