Alan Yu
Reporter
Reporter
Alan Yu is a reporter for the Pulse, a national health and science show at WHYY, the public radio station in Philadelphia. Previously, he was a Kroc fellow at NPR, and a reporter for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. In 2014, he was part of the team covering the pro democracy protests in Hong Kong that went on for months. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Northwestern University, with specialties in magazine journalism and science reporting.
When Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital closed, the city lost one of its few remaining maternity wards. But reporting on the fallout proved tougher than expected, as two radio reporters explain.
This report is part of a larger project led by WHYY’s Alan Yu and Nina Feldman as part of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2020 Data Fellowship.
The city has long struggled to make progress in improving the health of mothers and newborns. Do these shutdowns lead to worse care?