NATIONAL HEALTH REPORTING — HIGHLIGHTS
Mental Health:
HOSTING - HIGHLIGHTS
SCIENCE REPORTING & PODCASTING - HIGHLIGHTS
Mental Health:
- Families take drastic steps to help children in mental health crises | March 2023 | Center for Public Integrity, Slate and Here & Now
- America’s new crisis line – 988 – goes live | July 2022 | Side Effects, Tradeoffs & Slate
- How A Hospital And A School District Teamed Up To Help Kids In Emotional Crisis | June 2021 | NPR & KHN
- How Schools Can Help Kids Heal After A Year Of ‘Crisis And Uncertainty’ | April 2021 | NPR & KHN
- ‘I’ve Tried Everything’: Pandemic Worsens Child Mental Health Crisis | Jan 2021 | NPR & KHN
- When Teens Abuse Parents, Shame And Secrecy Make It Hard To Find Help | Nov 2019 | NPR & KHN
- To Get Mental Health Help For A Child, Desperate Parents Relinquish Custody | Jan 2019 | NPR & KHN
- Many Still Struggle To Get Insurers To Pay For Mental Health Treatment | Here & Now | Oct 2018
- How Some Schools Are Using Weekly Testing To Keep Kids In Class – And COVID Out | Sept 2021 | NPR & KHN
- As Trusted Voices, Farmers Could Be Key To Boosting Rural Vaccination Rates | Aug 2021 | NPR & KHN
- ‘She Was So Sick’: From COVID-19 Diagnosis To A Double Lung Transplant | Aug 2020 | NPR & KHN
- Swab, Spit Or Stay Home? Keeping Coronavirus Off Campus | Aug 2020 | NPR & KHN | Interview on Morning Edition
- With Black Women At Highest Risk Of Maternal Death, Some States Extend Medicaid | May 2021 | NPR & KHN
- A Switch To Medicaid Managed Care Worries Some Illinois Foster Families | May 2020 | NPR & KHN
- To Help Farmworkers Get COVID-19 Tests, Build Trust And A Safety Net | March 2021 | NPR & KHN
- A Young Immigrant Has Mental Illinois And That’s Raising His Risk Of Being Deported | Nov 2019 | NPR & KHN
- Most Inmates With Mental Illness Still Wait For Decent Care | Feb 2019 | NPR
- Screening Inmates For Mental Illness To Keep Them From Returning To Jail | Sept 2018 | NPR
HOSTING - HIGHLIGHTS
- Mayra Ramirez, First COVID-19 Patient To Receive Double-Lung Transplant | The 21st | Aug 2020
- How Dance Classes Can Help People With Parkinson’s Disease | The 21st | Dec 2019
- Why Self Care Is Hard - But Especially Important - During The Holiday Season | The 21st | Dec 2019
- NPR’s ‘Short Wave’ Podcast: A Chat With Maddie and Emily | The 21st | Nov 2019
- Author Interview: What Will It Take To Fix The U.S. Health Care System? | The 21st | Oct 2019
SCIENCE REPORTING & PODCASTING - HIGHLIGHTS
- Chemical Tweak Recycles Polyurethane into Glue | 60-Second Science podcast | Sept 2019
- Including Indigenous Voices in Genomics | 60-Second Science podcast | Aug 2019
- Babies Want Fair Leaders | 60-Second Science podcast | July 2019
- Why Two Moonships Were Better Than One | 60-Second Science podcast | July 2019
- The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Molecular Machines | The 21st | Oct 2016