Hannah Recht
I’m a data journalist at KHN, where I report on health care. On the side, I run an open-source R package, censusapi, which makes it easy to grab U.S. Census Bureau data programmatically.
Previously, I worked as a data and graphics reporter at Bloomberg News. Before journalism, I worked in public policy research at the Urban Institute as a data analyst and data visualization developer. I graduated from the University of Rochester with a degree in mathematics and statistics and a minor in epidemiology.
Software
An R wrapper for the U.S. Census Bureau APIs
Journalism
A KHN-AP series examining how the U.S. public health front lines have been left understaffed and ill-prepared to save us from the coronavirus pandemic.
A KHN review found more than 20 states either don’t count or have incomplete data on the use of COVID-19 antigen tests, leaving the public in the dark about the true scope of the pandemic.
Talks and Tutorials
Center for Health Journalism, 2020
Source, 2020
SRCCON, 2019