Melissa Bailey, KFF Health News
Melissa is a freelance writer and photographer based in Colorado, focusing on climate change and health. She was a 2022 Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder and a 2015 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard. She has worked as a journalist for 20+ years, including at STAT, Kaiser Health News and the New Haven Independent. Her writing can be found in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, Time Magazine, KFF Health News and other outlets. Her photography appears in The Washington Post, CNN, High Country News, Inside Climate News, Chalkbeat, the New Haven Independent, and The Boston Globe.
Drive for nuclear power boosts uranium industry — and tribal health concerns in Southwest
For decades, a Utah uranium mill has sparked debate over whether radioactive contamination threatens human health by getting into the water and the air.