Health Equity Media Fellowship
Medical Humanities & the Arts
The Stanford Health Equity Media Fellowship is a paid graduate-level training opportunity for doctors and journalists to help fill gaps in solutions-driven reporting on health equity across the United States. Starting with an in-person fall bootcamp, fellows are introduced to a wide scope of health topics, while also taking a deep dive into cross-platform media production. Over the course of six months, fellows engage in mentorship opportunities while producing stories that deepen our understanding of health disparities — while also featuring the innovative searches for solutions that are targeting these issues head-on.
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Welcome to our 2025-2026 Fellows!
FARRELL BRENNER
MPH
Farrell Greenwald Brenner, MPH is a public health practitioner, health equity advocate, and freelance journalist based in Atlanta, GA. She is a recent graduate of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. As a trauma-informed storyteller, Farrell writes on topics such as violence, harm reduction, and LGBTQ health. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, VICE, Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health, and the River Newsroom. In her free time, Farrell enjoys getting into arguments about the rules of modern flat track roller derby.
MEG TANAKA
MJ, MS
Meg Tanaka is a graduate student at UC Berkeley researching AI ethics education. She has been a freelance journalist covering a wide variety of topics such as culture, education and science for over 5 years, and has worked as a tech reporter at the Wall Street Journal. During her undergraduate years, she interned at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Stanford Medical School, with an emphasis on biomedical engineering.
JACE DICOLA
Jace DiCola is the health and wellness reporter for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, western Colorado’s largest newspaper. Since joining the Sentinel in January 2024, DiCola has published hundreds of articles on locally and nationally relevant topics: mental health infrastructure and disparities, rural healthcare access, insurance policy and programs serving niche medical needs. DiCola recently received the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Colorado’s 2024 Media Award in recognition of his responsible coverage of suicide, its impact on communities and the role locals can play in prevention.
ANGELA ZHANG
MD
Angela Y. Zhang, MD (she/hers) is a graduate of the University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital pediatrics residency in the Health Equity Track. A first-generation Chinese-American, she grew up in Seattle and made her way to the East Coast to complete a self-designed major in Mass Media & Cross-Cultural Perception at Duke University, and completed her MD at Brown University. She is interested in interdisciplinary collaborative approaches to dismantle structural barriers to health equity, such as algorithms using race-based medicine, and climate and spatial justice. Her work has appeared in Rhode Island Public Radio and ABC News.
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