AHCJ welcomes first-ever environmental health core topic leader | Association of Health Care Journalists

About Erica Tricarico

Handling Editor Erica Tricarico is a graduate of Howard College and the master’s plan in journalism at CUNY. Tricarico will come to AHCJ from MJH Lifestyle Sciences in Cranbury, N.J., where by she managed an editorial group making written content on animal care. Ahead of that, she was a freelance wellbeing treatment reporter for Every day Well being.

Elizabeth Aguilera

AHCJ not too long ago welcomed Elizabeth Aguilera, a California-based mostly impartial well being reporter, as the organization’s to start with environmental overall health core topic chief.

“We’re excited to have a new aim space on environmental health,” mentioned Kelsey Ryan, AHCJ’s government director.

“Health treatment is a nuanced and diverse topic and these core subjects — ranging from getting older to mental well being to well being equity and now ecosystem — present that diversity.”

Aguilera, a California native, a short while ago worked for CalMatters, exactly where she covered overall health treatment coverage, the well being and welfare of children and youth, and co-hosted a politics podcast major up to the 2021 elections. She also claimed for Southern California Public Radio/KPCC 89.3 where by she manufactured stories about neighborhood wellness. There, her reporting on guide-tainted soil on faculty campuses around a previous lead battery recycling plant spurred district motion. 

Earlier in her job, Aguilera wrote about immigration and demographics for the San Diego Union-Tribune exactly where her coverage of sex trafficking in between Mexico and the United States gained a “Best of the West” award. Aguilera also labored at the Denver Write-up, wherever she was named a finalist for the Livingston Award for her reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. 

“I want to compose about environmental overall health to highlight the difficulties for susceptible communities and emphasize the work remaining done to drive back again and demand from customers healthier air, drinking water, and soil,” Aguilera said. 

“I’m enthusiastic about digging further into environmental overall health to find unbelievable reporting on the challenge and provide concepts and perception for our customers who want to compose about this significant problem.”

The perform of AHCJ’s environmental overall health core subject chief is supported by funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

Taking care of Editor Erica Tricarico is a graduate of Howard University and the master’s software in journalism at CUNY. Tricarico arrives to AHCJ from MJH Existence Sciences in Cranbury, N.J., the place she managed an editorial workforce producing content material on animal care. In advance of that, she was a freelance well being treatment reporter for Every day Health and fitness.