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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Researchers assessed the teens at the beginning and end of camp using a questionnaire. They looked at areas including mental well-being, social connection, cognition and resilience. -
A new statewide campaign is helping families learn about hospice care earlier, giving them more time to understand their options and make decisions before a crisis. -
The new approach puts addiction treatment and long-term recovery at the center of the federal homelessness response, but local advocates question whether San Diego has enough treatment capacity to make it work. -
A county inspection found two tuberculosis cases that were not reported as required, along with other medical concerns. Officials said there is no known current risk of TB spread from the cases. -
A fourth person has been infected with West Nile virus just as peak transmission season begins. County health officials are urging residents to take precautions against mosquito bites. -
A new survey finds most cancer patients miss work during treatment. This comes as experts and state officials warn new federal Medi-Cal work rules could make qualifying for medical exemptions more complicated.
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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. -
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.
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