As the health reporter at WLRN, the NPR member station for South Florida, my beat is health policy with a sense of place. In each of these stories, someone makes a decision that affects someone else’s health. That’s the through line — be it a story about needle exchange policies, an explainer on health insurance products, research about inmate access to surgery, or a diary of the trauma carried by a young survivor of a school shooting. The WLRN approach to health care storytelling is to think about who has power, what the stakes are, and how those upstream decisions affect the experience and health of people who live with the outcome.
1/3/18 – Fed Up With Traditional Health Insurance, South Florida Company Tries Something Radical
1/7/18 – ‘The Most Pro-Life Thing:’ HIV Activists Push To Expand Miami’s Needle Exchange Statewide
5/31/18 – Audio Diary: Marjory Stoneman Douglas Senior Leonor Muñoz Documents Life After The Shooting
9/25/18 – Surprising Allies Address The Outsize Role Guns Play In Deaths Of Soldiers And Kids
12/5/18 – Research Concludes Inmates Lack Adequate Access To Timely Health Care Behind Bars In South Florida