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Margarita Martín-Hidalgo Birnbaum

Health Equity Leader

Margarita Birnbaum is AHCJ’s health beat leader for healthy equity and an independent journalist based in Dallas. Over the years, her stories about health, as well as crime and other topics she covered early in her career, have appeared in WebMD, American Heart Association News, The Dallas Morning News, The Miami Herald and Reuters. Fluent in English and Spanish, Birnbaum is also an interpreter and translator. Her personal and professional experiences living and working in the U.S. and in several Central American countries have informed her reporting work in covering health disparity trends among racial and ethnic groups in the U.S.

“Reporting on health equity involves looking at the ways factors such as job type, housing policies, and experiences with discrimination affect people’s physical and mental health.”

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