Independent Journalist

Charlotte Huff covered medical news on staff at several daily newspapers and now reports freelance for magazines and online publications. She can tackle an array of writing styles—profiles, trend pieces, and narratives. Her favorite assignments explore the interplay between science, money, ethics, and, above all, the power of patient stories to shed light on health care.

Recent Work

JUST OUT: For Kaiser Health News, where uninsured cancer patients live and their diagnosis shapes treatment coverage options; a Cancer Today article exploring why poor behavioral choices don't fully explain men's higher risk of cancer; and first-place recognition from the Association of Health Care Journalists for my Health Affairs article about suicide prevention efforts in Utah.

PERENNIAL FAVORITES:

Travels to the Rio Grande Valley to report on the lack of cancer care, for Kaiser Health News, and another to shadow a medical school's drive to get more reliable contraception to underserved women, for Undark. (My KHN portfolio can be checked out here.)
An in-depth look at how lightning strikes injure the body, both the science and the stories that survivors in the southwest U.S., as well as the heart-stopping reality of cardiac arrest, both for the sadly departed British publication Mosaic Science.
Profiles, such as a look at a West Texas hospital CEO who beat the odds for rural hospital survival in his hometown, and a surgeon who operated on babies with spina bifida in utero, while for years keeping her own diagnosis secret, both for STAT.

STAT | Cancer drug studies already collect lots of data, but not what some researchers maintain is particularly important to patients: time toxicity.

Health Affairs | Temple University researchers are studying whether a psychological intervention gets more anxious patients into the dental chair.

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