Heidi de Marco
Health ReporterHeidi de Marco is an award-winning photojournalist and health reporter who has focused her work on producing multimedia stories that help humanize the complex health and humanitarian issues impacting marginalized and vulnerable communities in the United States and abroad.
Most recently, she covered health care and policy for KFF Health News from the Southern California bureau where she produced bilingual multimedia stories for news outlets nationwide.
Previously, Heidi was a freelance video journalist and photographer specializing in covering social disparities, health, and general news abroad.
She has a bachelor’s degree in international journalism from DePaul University, a post-graduate diploma in multimedia journalism from an International Center for Journalists sponsored program in India, and a certificate in Spanish-language broadcast journalism from UCLA.
She has extensive multimedia training, is HEFAT certified (Hostile Environment and First Aid Training), and has spent more than a decade covering health. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, CNN, PBS Newshour, The Washington Post, TIME, Radio Bilngüe, The New York Times, NPR and La Opinión, among others.
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Death cafés are creating space to talk openly about dying. For some, those discussions ease fear and isolation. -
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association associates adolescent cannabis use with increased risk for serious mental health conditions. -
Scripps researchers say a molecular redesign of fentanyl may preserve pain relief while reducing the deadly breathing suppression that drives overdoses. -
San Diego County sees rising flu cases as health officials warn a more contagious strain is spreading. -
New tool tracks housing, health and affordability trends to guide planning and funding. -
Hundreds of pharmacy and laboratory workers walked off the job Monday in solidarity with nurses, citing staffing shortages and stalled contract negotiations.
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Thousands of unionized nurses and health care professionals at Kaiser Permanente facilities in California and Hawaii will return to work Tuesday, ending a roughly four-week strike carried out amid prolonged contract talks, union officials said Monday.
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Kaiser Permanente nurses and health care workers in the San Diego area joined their counterparts across the state and in Hawaii Monday to begin an open-ended strike alleging unfair labor practices amid prolonged contract talks. -
In front of her house Wednesday, community members gathered to honor Legaspi. She was an icon in the LGBTQ+, Filipino American, and Asian American Pacific Islander communities.
- California US Rep. Darrell Issa to retire in move that raises stakes for GOP holding House control
- In Encinitas, people are gathering to talk about death and find community
- A Black-owned ranch in the Tijuana River Valley fosters community and ancestral connection
- Top California Democrat flops with call for candidates to exit governor's race
- Issa to retire, endorses Desmond to succeed him in 48th Congressional District