Climate change. COVID-19. Sports psychology. Dark matter. Addiction. Personal tech. As a health and science reporter, you get to indulge your curiosity about the world and shed light on some of the biggest stories of our time.
You’ll mine data to find new perspectives on social issues, from maternal mortality to gun violence, and explore the impacts of climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.
You’ll police the $3 trillion spent each year on U.S. health care, money that too often benefits hospitals, insurers, and pharmaceutical companies instead of sick people.
You’ll sift through research, eliminating jargon and hype. You’ll also interview top experts in fields from infectious disease to robotics, and tell dramatic human stories, through audio and video, data visualizations, and well-constructed narratives.
No. Many of Newmark J-School’s most successful health and science alumni majored in journalism or the humanities in college.
Here’s a sampling of work that Health & Science students produced for class and later published:
The Introduction to Health Journalism class has an ongoing collaboration with Healthbeat, a publication of the Civic News Company. Here’s the landing page for Newmark/CUNY student work published in Healthbeat.
A team of students in Katherine Eban’s Investigative Health Class received a grant to continue working for over two years after graduation on this expose in STAT of a potentially unethical research program on brain-surgery patients at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
Mandy Salazar, ’23, published in Undark her capstone on how a national effort to combat obesity in high school students backfired.
Alex Krales, ’23, wrote for Atmos about how the lack of air conditioning in prisons is endangering lives, especially those of older people.
In City Limits, Marnie Dunbar, ’23, explored how climate change is threatening New York’s historic Black cemeteries.
Elias Guerra, ’23, investigated for City & State how hard barriers intended to protect NYC shorelines from flooding could kill entire ecosystems.
Paige Perez, ’22, described in The Guardian how climate disasters can affect pregnant women and leave a lasting imprint on their children.
Yvonne Marquez, ’22, wrote in The Guardian about the benefits of mutual aid.
Do you have a question about the Health and Science program? If so, please contact us.
Emily Laber-Warren
Director of Health and Science Reporting
