STAT News has hired Chelsea Cirruzzo as a reporter in its Washington office.
The hiring is part of an expansion of coverage around President Trump, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the most important agencies and individuals shaping the U.S. health care system.
Cirruzzo, who starts this week, has been a health care reporter at Politico, where she wrote the flagship Politico Pulse newsletter. She previously worked for Axios, U.S. News & World Report, and Inside Health Policy.
Earlier in her career, she spent a year reporting on the challenges of caring for an aging homeless population as a journalism fellow for the Gerontological Society of America.
Cirruzzo is a graduate of American University.
