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

2022 HIGHLIGHTS: An article in the Washington Post exploring agoraphobia and the pandemic, reporting about suicide prevention efforts in Utah for Health Affairs, and a Science Friday interview about my Kaiser Health News article looking at the impact of abortion restrictions on miscarriage care in Texas.

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. shared for Mosaic Science. (Read more of my long-form writing for the sadly departed British publication.)
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.

Undark | Compared to a colonoscopy, a fecal test is easy and affordable. But which of these methods is better at finding colon cancer?

Kaiser Health News | As abortion restrictions take effect across the South, cancer doctors are trying to decipher the laws.

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