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Tara Haelle

Trip:: Mozambique 2014
Affiliation:: Freelance
Country:: Mozambique
Year:: 2014

Find me on:: Twitter

Tara Haelle is a freelance science and health journalist and photojournalist who specializes in reporting on vaccines, pediatric and maternal health, parenting, nutrition/obesity, mental health, medical research, environmental health, marine science, and the social sciences. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, The Washington Post, Slate, NOVA, Wired, Politico, Pacific Standard, Muse Magazine, HealthDay, Scuba Diving Magazine, and Frontline Medical Communications. She also blogs at UT’s Science and the Sea blog, her own science mom blog at Red Wine & Apple Sauce and occasionally at Tara Incognita. She is the health editor at Double X Science and is writing an evidence-based parenting book with Emily Willingham for Perigee Books. She earned a master’s in journalism and photojournalism from the University of Texas at Austin and is an adjunct journalism instructor at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. She previously taught high school English and journalism and is a member of various professional organizations, including NASW, AHCJ, ASJA, SEJ and PIEA.

Stories

Ebola Is A Symptom Of Our Compounding Failures

by Haelle, Tara | November 05, 2014

As the WHO Director-General addressed the Regional Committee for Africa two days ago, I was visiting BoaneHealth Center in southern Mozambique, a country in the southeastern corner of Africa. It&rsquo...;
Mozambican Art Exhibit Offers Stark Visual of Pediatrician Shortages

by Haelle, Tara | October 27, 2014

I mentioned in my post yesterday that I would share the other exhibit at the National Museum of Art in Maputo that I most compelling. I originally included it...