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I’m a freelance health journalist in London.

I am originally from the U.S. and now cover public health issues across Europe and the globe. I’ve been a freelance journalist in Denmark and the Netherlands, and a staff reporter at news outlets in Washington, D.C., and Brussels. I specialize in reported features on how political and business decisions shape people’s health and lives.

In 2025, I won the European Press Prize’s migration journalism award.

Contact me via email and find me on LinkedIn and soon, Substack.

Selected clips

A man riding a bike with a cargo bike attached, carrying six young children all wearing helmets, two women standing nearby, in front of a pink building with multiple windows.

Growing up ‘non-Western’ in Denmark’s nanny state (2025 European Press Prize winner)

A healthcare worker administers medicine to a young child lying on an adult's lap, in a medical setting.

Romania’s measles crisis: What’s driving Europe’s biggest outbreak?

A young girl sitting on a swing set in a backyard with a trampoline, a yellow rubber duck float, and a shed in the background.

The C-section capital of America

Group of medical professionals, including nurses and doctors, standing outside a building with boarded-up windows, observing something below.

'We changed mentally': How years of war have squeezed Ukraine's health workers

London opens new clinic for tuberculosis survivors

Protein chips, sex chocolate: what are ‘functional foods’, and do they actually boost health?

A mannequin in a black patent leather thigh-high boot with clear high heel, sitting on a tall stool inside a red-lit room. The room has a window showing a blurred city street scene with pedestrians outside.

Inside Amsterdam’s struggle to support sex workers’ health

A girl holding a large teddy bear in a purple-walled room decorated with horse paintings and a cross on the wall.

‘The world shuts down’: What happens when the children of migrant farmworkers get cancer

Explore my work by topic

MAHA goes global: Inside the rise of the Make Europe Healthy Again movement