I’m Brittany Trang, a scientist-turned-science-journalist excited about helping people understand science and how it impacts them.

I am a health tech reporter at STAT News. Previously, I covered healthcare business at STAT, where I (before that) was a Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow. I also was an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass Media Fellow at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2021. My freelance work has been published places like Undark Magazine, Chemistry World, Chemical & Engineering News, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Billboard Magazine.

I have a bachelor’s in English and chemistry from the Ohio State University and a PhD in chemistry from Northwestern University, where I worked with Prof. William Dichtel to develop per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) remediation methods. 

You can email me via my contact page or find me on Twitter @brittanytrang (as well as on basically every other social site…)