Fellows & Editors
Marissa Miley
- Trip:
- Brazil 2014
- Affiliation:
- GlobalPost
- Country:
- Brazil
- Year:
- 2014
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Marissa Miley is a Boston-based freelance journalist and bestselling author. She was a 2013 Kaiser Family Foundation Fellow in global health reporting at GlobalPost, where she is currently a global health correspondent. Her writing also has appeared in Nature Medicine, New Scientist, and the Huffington Post. She earned her M.A. in journalism from Columbia Journalism School, where she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow in science and health writing.
Stories
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In Brazil, Half of All Mothers Have C-Sections - Whether They Want It or Not
Cesarean sections were intended as emergency surgery to get a baby out of a woman's womb when complications arose during vaginal childbirth. But in some parts of the world, they...
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Brazil’s Cesarean Section Problem
This is the third post in a blog series called “Expectations" written by deputy editor of global health Marissa Miley. Expecting a child herself, Miley is reporting in Brazil to better...
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A Long Wait to See the Doctor in São Paulo
This is the second post in a blog series called “Expectations" written by deputy editor of global health Marissa Miley. Expecting a child herself, Miley is reporting in Brazil ...;
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Expectations: A Mother-to-Be Heads to Brazil to Report
“How are you feeling?” is a question I get a lot these days. It’s the first one my doctor asks when I sit down on the examination table....
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