Betsy McKay is a senior writer who covers public health and medicine for The Wall Street Journal. Her stories examine how health policies, discoveries, and practices shape and challenge society and affect individuals’ health. She writes about cutting-edge scientific research, and prevention and patient care for heart disease, cancer, mental health, infectious diseases, and other conditions globally.
Betsy, a Russian speaker, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for coverage of Russia’s financial crisis. She has won awards for stories on drug-resistant tuberculosis, maternity care in the rural U.S., Covid-19, and other public health issues. A series she co-authored last year on psychiatric medication has won four awards.