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Case Study

Bloomberg School Magazine

Translating research for a public health audience

Role Contributing Writer
Client Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health
Format Flagship school magazine
(print + web)
Period 2024–2026
The Brief

The Bloomberg School magazine is the public face of one of the world's leading schools of public health. Each issue needs to do two things at once: honor the rigor of the research and the researchers behind it, and earn the attention of readers who are not specialists.

That means features that read like magazine journalism — voice, scene, narrative arc — built on a foundation of careful interviewing, fact-checking, and source review.

Three published features — A Wider Lens on Aging, AI in Action, Solutions for a Livable Earth
My Role

Across four issues, I've worked as a contributing writer on features, profiles, and short-form vignettes.

  • Interviewing faculty researchers and synthesizing peer-reviewed papers into accessible narrative
  • Drafting features and vignettes from raw transcripts and source material
  • Iterating with the in-house editorial team through tracked-changes review cycles
  • Preparing factcheck-ready drafts with sourcing for every claim

Recurring beats: aging research, AI in public health, climate and health, and community-based research in Baltimore.

Bloomberg Public Health magazine covers
Published Features

Three features for the Spring 2025 issue

Fall–Winter 2023
AI in Action

How public health is harnessing machine learning to turn mountains of data into insight.

Spring–Summer 2024
A Wider Lens on Aging

Public health research examines aging at every level — individual, interpersonal, societal.

Fall–Winter 2024
Solutions for a Livable Earth

From glacial preservation to climate-driven migration — researchers building scalable answers.

Spring 2024

Aging Feature Package

A multi-vignette package on aging research at the school, including profiles of faculty working on LGBTQ+ aging and subjective aging, vaccines and older adults, gender-based violence and older women, and neurodegeneration.

A Wider Lens on Aging — hero illustration
Fall 2025

Public Health Communicators

Drafts in the issue's package on faculty and alumni shaping public discourse around health — the people translating research into public understanding.

AI in Action — hero illustration
Spring 2026

Baltimore Research Stories

A package built around faculty doing community-rooted work in Baltimore, including Craig Pollack on housing and health, Javier Cepeda, Brad Silberzahn, Amanda Smith, and partner organizations CFUF and LEAD.

Solutions for a Livable Earth — hero illustration
Reflection

Academic research is a hard genre to translate well, but the Bloomberg School magazine is a useful counter-example: the bar is to write stories that a researcher would recognize as accurate and a stranger would actually finish. Holding both standards at once is a craft I bring to client work, whether the source material is a peer-reviewed paper or an executive's half-formed idea.

If you have research, expertise, or a body of work that deserves to be read by people outside the room it was made in, let's talk.

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