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Bridget HuberBH

Bridget Huber

Bridget Huber is a reporter focused mainly on public health, food and the environment. She's written for The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, Mother Jones, the Associated Press and others. Originally from Maine, she's based in Oakland, California.
An ad from the pro-soda tax campaign in three Bay Area cities. Public health researchers say Berkeley's 2015 soda tax has reduced consumption of sugary drinks by 21 percent.
Business
Grocers and health advocates are at odds over an Oakland ‘soda tax’ — and low-income communities are on the front line
Women and children sit in a classroom at a school in Fond Parisen, Haiti. About 50 people of Haitian descent are staying at the school after being forced out of the Dominican Republic.
Global Politics
‘If I was Dominican, they wouldn’t have expelled me like some dog’
Blessing, a young girl from South Sudan, recovers from surgery to treat hydrocephalus. Fluid builds up in the brain causing the head to swell.
Medicine
An American surgeon pioneers surgery for kids in Uganda that helps kids in the US
Nilza Munambo listens to a fetal heartbeat. She's in charge of the maternity ward at Chokwe District Hospital and regularly performs cesarean sections even though she's not a doctor.
Medicine
Mozambique’s life-saving surgeons aren’t doctors at all
Vicente Robles in his apple orchards in Bachíniva, Chihuahua.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Mexico is waging war against American apples