Alison Young

Alison Young

Alison Young covers national public health issues for Healthbeat, including the work of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Young has reported on health, science and environmental issues for national and regional news organizations, including USA Today, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Detroit Free Press. Young’s reporting has received more than 40 national journalism awards, including National Press Club Awards, Scripps Howard Awards, Gerald Loeb Awards, the Hillman Prize, a Sigma Delta Chi Award, and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. She also has received honors from the Association of Health Care Journalists and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Young is a past president of Investigative Reporters and Editors, and the author of Pandora’s Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk, which was named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2023. She lives in South Carolina. You can message Alison using Signal at alisonyoungreports.48

Rules requiring advance notice of ACIP meeting agendas enable public input on vaccine policy decisions that impact people’s lives, experts say.

With schools closed for winter break, health officials couldn’t get critical information to identify and warn those exposed to measles of need to quarantine.

Prisma Health’s announcement came two days after Healthbeat revealed measles exposures in the labor and delivery unit at Prisma Health Greer Memorial Hospital and in the emergency department of Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital. 

Healthbeat exclusive: ‘Highly concerning’ measles exposure at hospital maternity unit plus exposures at BMW plant and Kentucky youth conference are among new details.

A UN-WHO scientific risk assessment is launched as U.S. regulators struggle to find the source of ByHeart botulism contamination.

Nearly all of those infected have been children and teens, and nearly all have been unvaccinated, according to the South Carolina Department of Public Health.

Ericka Brown, local health official for Harris County Public Health, aims to improve community wellness by addressing both the medical and social factors that contribute to health disparities.

Infant botulism outbreak linked to ByHeart formula prompts warnings to major retailers, calls for tougher regulation.

Healthbeat asked 10 of the nation's largest maternity hospitals and systems that deliver the most babies about their policies for giving hepatitis B vaccines at birth and whether they are changing. Most wouldn't answer.