Sammy Mack
Public radio. Public health. Public policy.
Most days, Sammy Mack covers health care policy for WLRN. Her health care journalism is supported by a fellowship with the Kaiser Health News and NPR Health Care Reporting in the States project.
Like most folks who've worked at a member station, she's worn a lot of hats: interim digital editor during the re-launch of WLRN.org, assistant producer for The Florida Roundup, morning news producer, intern coordinator, party planner. She was one half of the StateImpact Florida education reporting team.
Her stories have appeared on NPR, Kaiser Health News, Monocle 24, the Miami Herald, Global Health, Health News Florida, Gambit Weekly, MAP Magazine, Gulfshore Life, Philadelphia Weekly, the St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times) and other outlets.
Mack’s work has been honored with a Third Coast Best News Feature Award, Green Eyeshade Award for Investigative Journalism, and Florida AP Broadcaster and SPJ Sunshine State awards. She’s collaborated on projects that have won a Third Coast International Audio Festival bronze award, an Emmy, national and regional Edward R. Murrow awards, a Wilbur Award and a Dart Award. Mack was a writing fellow during the 2008 Poynter Summer Fellowship for Young Journalists.
She was recognized by her colleagues as the 2011 Herald Top Chef. She’s happy to share her recipe for garam masala macarons with lemongrass filling.
You can find her on Twitter @sammymack.
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Pregnant women are being asked to stay away from Wynwood. The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Zika-related... -
Floridians with chronic diseases like asthma and COPD may have one more problem to worry about: sea-level rise. The Health And Sea Level Rise: Impacts... -
The Florida Department of Health reports a child in Miami-Dade County has come down with a case of measles. According to a release from the health...
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The number of Zika cases in Florida has grown to 188—which includes 38 pregnant women who are being monitored by the state. So far, all of those cases... -
Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and local police spent hours Sunday going through the apartment of the alleged Orlando shooter,... -
Mental health care ranks among the most expensive kinds of health care in American medicine—and having a mental illness or behavioral disorder can drive... -
Federal officials are all but certain there will be a Zika outbreak in the continental U.S. this summer. The mosquito-borne virus continues to spread in... -
Florida kids go to the emergency room more often than kids in the rest of the country—even when they have insurance—according to a new analysis from... -
The insurance company Florida Blue says its rate increases were published too soon on the Obamacare website. The numbers that were briefly available... -
Health-care prices are complex and in many ways secret—which can affect how much you end up paying for your health care. But not everyone agrees on what...
