Sarah Gantz
Health care reporter
Health care reporter
Sarah Gantz is a health care reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where her work focuses on the cost of care. She joined the Inquirer in February 2018 from the Baltimore Sun, where she was a business reporter. She previously wrote about the business of health care for the Baltimore Business Journal and was a 2014 reporting fellow with the Association of Health Care Journalists. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University.
A reporter learns to diversify her tactics to find more diverse families for a series on the rise of Type 1 diabetes.
Philadelphia families grapple with a medical mystery: Why is this chronic condition rising so quickly in children of color?
Families such as the Stewarts rely on a health care system that is overwhelmingly white and has historically treated patients of color poorly.
In Philadelphia, the number of black children under age 5 diagnosed with type 1 diabetes has shot up 220% since the mid-1980s — and no one knows why.