Kate Long

writing coach / reporter / radio producer

For 25 years, I've coached writers and editors at papers, conferences and associations (including CDHJF) around the country. I also produce projects for my two home bases in my home state of West Virginia: The Charleston Gazette and West Virginia Public Radio.

I am very centered on West Virginia and the Appalachian area. I have written extensively about health insurance (lack thereof), community health centers (FQHCs), health care reform, medical home projects, health issues affecting elderly, and social determinants of health, such as predatory mortgages.

Articles

Dr. Michael Lewis, secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Resources, volunteers at the West Virginia Health Right

Right place, right time: Ten months in, DHHR chief focused on prevention

<p>A formerly sickly child, West Virginia's top health official finds himself in the position to affect the health of more than 400,000 West Virginians enrolled in Medicaid, DHHR's biggest program.</p>

War on West Virginia's flood of chronic disease and obesity

<p>Journalist Kate Long's home state faces staggering health problems, prompting her project to explore West Virginia’s rising tide of chronic disease and obesity and the considerable efforts by its residents to reverse it.</p>