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In rural America, heart disease is increasingly claiming younger lives
For NBC News, I wrote about how rural adults are living shorter lives than their urban counterparts, largely due to heart disease, and how this got…
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Undiagnosed mental illness in cancer patients is one of the biggest gaps in treatment
For NBC News, I wrote about depression, anxiety and other psychiatric conditions often go undetected and undiagnosed in patients, taking a significant…
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How students and grandparents could solve the global mental-health crisis
For Nature, I wrote about how African researchers piloted innovative, low-cost programs to tackle the mental health crisis — and how the rest of the…
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Why does Iceland have Europe's highest obesity rates?
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How Iceland's rethinking mental health: are we getting it all wrong?
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Medicine’s DEI backlash offers an opportunity to build anew
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How students and grandparents could solve the global mental-health crisis
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Is air pollution the new tobacco?
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Did decriminalizing fentanyl cause overdose deaths to spike?
Oregon decriminalized hard drugs in 2021 and recriminalized them last month. For Scientific American, I wrote about a new analysis suggesting this law…
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‘Our new doctors have no clue about leprosy’: experts skeptical of India’s target to eliminate the disease by 2027
For The Guardian, I wrote about how India accounts for the majority of the world's leprosy cases, but its new elimination campaign is seen as a…
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Syphilis is at its highest levels since the 1950s. Here’s how to fix that
For NBC News, I wrote about how scientists across the U.S. are racing to develop innovative, unconventional strategies to stop this sexually transmitted…
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Medicine’s DEI backlash offers an opportunity to build anew
For Nature Medicine, I wrote an essay about the recent backlash over diversity, equity, and inclusion and what comes next, with Dr. Ahmed and Dr. Stone
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Is air pollution the new tobacco?
For National Geographic, I wrote about Taiwan, where most lung cancer cases happen in non-smokers, and what it can teach the U.S.
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It’s time to start taking mpox and bird flu seriously
For TIME, I wrote a piece with Dr. Robert Glatter about public health complacency and two potential pandemics brewing in our midst
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Kanye West allegedly addicted to laughing gas
Your “Stigma in the News” lead story for August 15, 2024
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India is the world’s leprosy hotspot. Can it get rid of this Biblical disease?
India has 60% of all leprosy cases in the world but has promised to eradicate this disease by 2027. Experts say actions speak louder than words
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A million people died during Rwanda's genocide. Thirty years later, they have one of the world's best mental health systems
The U.S. is in a mental health crisis, but Rwanda could teach us how to decentralize services and heal at the community level
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I'm traveling to 12 countries around the world in 2 months, reporting on stigmatized diseases like mental illness, lung cancer, and HIV. Follow along for unbelievable human stories that will change how you think about the world.

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