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Kellie Schmitt
Affordable Care Act Blogger, Freelance Health Reporter
I write for the Center for Health Journalism's Remaking Health Care blog. Previously, I was a health reporter for the Bakersfield Californian, a staff writer for the San Jose Mercury News, and a business reporter for the San Francisco Recorder. I spent two years reporting from China for publications including The Economist's Business China, China Economic Review, and CNN Travel.
In 2012, I was a Health Journalism Fellow. My project examined the high number of foreign-trained doctors in California's Central Valley, a series which won awards from the Association of Healthcare Journalists and the California Newspaper Publishers Association.
I also worked with the Center for Health Journalism's multi-part, collaborative series on the devastating toll Valley Fever has had on California's Central Valley.
Articles
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Insights Topics
A powerful series on child abandonment illustrates three key ingredients of stories that make a difference.
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Author urges journalists to give voice to the experiences of young people as they struggle to recover from the crisis.
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Stanford's Maya Rossin-Slater unpacks her team's landmark study, which finds even rich Black mothers are more likely to have worse birth outcomes than their white counterparts.
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“I’ve always felt that mental health has never been important to newspapers, to society,” Wan told fellow reporters this week. His stories are trying to change that.
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“I think it would be a bit cavalier to all of a sudden say, We’re completely through with it,” Dr. Fauci said at a center event this week.
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The move in health care to value-based payments has not solved racial health disparities. In some cases, it's even made them worse.
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ProPublica reporter Duaa Eldeib and oncologist Dr. Kashyap Patel describe the still-unfolding crisis.
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The series puts the emphasis on the validity of a patient’s feelings and emotions surrounding a particular health encounter or experience.
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A veteran investigative reporter unpacks one of the pandemic's biggest tragedies.