Rebecca Grapevine

Rebecca Grapevine

Reporter, Healthbeat

Born and raised in Atlanta, Rebecca Grapevine is back home as a Healthbeat local reporter. Influenced by her hometown and extensive travels, she became fascinated by public health while working in hospitals in India and Atlanta. She got her start as a journalist writing for Georgia Health News and KFF Health News. She has also reported for the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Capitol Beat News Service and the Louisville Courier Journal. Along the way, Rebecca earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan and learned to speak Hindi (nearly) fluently.

Small businesses use a tiny portion of the NIH’s budget to bridge the gap between research and consumers, like making devices that reduce pain without opioids.

The study found an association for Black women between childhood trauma and greater arterial stiffening.

Here are the decisions Georgia lawmakers made on public health bills ahead of a crucial legislative deadline.

The university is joining a growing list of top research universities that plan to freeze or limit hiring because of concerns about federal research funding cuts.

Researcher James Washington of Morehouse School of Medicine and Iffat Walker of Community Action Now! will explore the fire’s impact on residents’ health in six counties.

Dozens of CDC workers and supporters gathered at the Georgia Capitol to tell their stories, many holding signs with slogans like ‘CDC saves lives’ and ‘Science not silence.’

USAID’s work is important to Atlanta on ‘many levels,’ said Mark Rosenberg, former president and CEO of the task force, which is headquartered in Decatur.

A new NIH policy ordered by the Trump administration would reduce the amount grants pay to universities to help with the costs of conducting research. That reduction could cost Emory University about $140 million a year.

‘There’s a fair amount of agreement across political parties, across demographics,‘ said Dr. Stephen Patrick, an Emory professor who helped design the survey.

Among states, Georgia has the highest rate of new HIV infections, but residents — especially women and Black patients — are often not getting PrEP, a lifesaving preventive drug, data shows.