Highlights

• Award-winning health journalist

• Freelance contributor to The New York Times and Scientific American

Experience

I’m a health journalist, writer, and editor with over two decades of experience reporting for national publications including The New York Times, Scientific American, and Neurology Today. I have worked across organizations and formats, as part of print and digital teams, writing and editing for newsrooms, nonprofits, hospitals, and universities.

My work often focuses on disparities and inequities in all aspects of health, such as health status, access to care, diagnostics, treatment, and outcomes. This lens includes a focus on social determinants of health. How and where we are born, grow up, study, play, and work affect our health throughout our lifetime. My subjects are wide-ranging and include asthma rates in children in the Bronx, prostate cancer rates and protocols for Black men, racial disparities in Alzheimer’s assessments, and a feature on epilepsy care in Freetown, Sierra Leone, for The New York Times. My stories have won awards from the International Bureau for Epilepsy/UCB and the Association of Health Care Journalists. 

Education

I received my master’s degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and my bachelor’s in English from Yale University. In 2008, I was a Kaiser Family Foundation Fellow in Health Media.