Kristina Marusic is a reporter for Environmental Health News and The Daily Climate, focusing on Western Pennsylvania. Kristina has investigated the ways pollution raises rates of cancer, childhood asthma, and mental illness; the health impacts of fracking; and threats from toxic chemicals like PFAS, hazardous waste, and coal ash.
She has received recognition or awards for her reporting on these issues from the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Association of Health Care Journalists, the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Institute of Health Care Management, the Group Against Smog and Pollution, and the Carnegie Science Center.
Kristina’s first book, “A New War on Cancer: The Unlikely Heroes Revolutionizing Prevention," will be published on May 11, 2022. It's about an emerging national movement focused on fighting cancer by stopping widespread exposure to carcinogenic chemicals, and it grew out of her reporting for Environmental Health News.
Prior to joining Environmental Health News in 2018, Kristina worked as a freelance journalist and essayist covering a broad range of issues with bylines at CNN, Slate, Vice, Women's Health, the Washington Post, MTV News, The Advocate, and Bustle, among many others.
She holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of San Francisco and is the co-founder of the Pittsburgh chapter of the National Association of LGBTQ Journalists.
Reach Kristina at kmarusic@ehsciences.org.
