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Cathy GarrardContributor

Expertise

Health journalism with a focus on women's health, nutrition, and disease management

Education

University of Kansas

Highlights

  • Health journalist

  • Content integrity expert

  • Journalism instructor at NYU’s School for Professional Studies

Through all the stages of a woman’s life, her health concerns are often dismissed or ignored. My passion as a journalist is to provide women the information and tools they need to help them take charge of their own well-being.

— Cathy Garrard

Experience

Cathy Garrard is a journalist with more than 20 years of experience writing and editing health stories. Her work has appeared in print and online for Everyday Health, Reader’s Digest, Prevention, USA Today, Self, Men’s Fitness, and dozens of other media outlets and healthcare brands.

Education

Garrard currently works as an adjunct professor at NYU’s School for Professional Studies and teaches classes on fact-checking and media literacy.