Freelance Journalist

Charlotte Huff covers medical and business stories that help bring complex issues to life. She has written freelance for magazines and worked on staff at several daily newspapers, tackling an array of writing styles—profiles, trend pieces, and narratives. She gravitates toward articles that explore the interplay between medicine, money, and patient care.

Recent Work

HIGHLIGHTS: A mix of articles are posted on subsequent pages, but calling out some 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. shared for Mosaic Science. (Read more of my long-form writing for the sadly departed British publication.)
Some 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.
For Health Affairs, I’ve explored various health policy topics, including a Houston sepsis prevention initiative and efforts by clinicians at the University of Alabama at Birmingham to get more palliative care to rural and Black patients.

Health Affairs | For Ammon Love, a minor fender bender en route to the gun store in 2020 might have provided the lifesaving pause that he needed.

Kaiser Health News | How low can they go? Rural hospitals weigh safety and access in their decision to keep obstetrics units open as births decline.

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