Published Articles by Melinda Wenner Moyer
Melinda’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, O: The Oprah Magazine, Nature and many other publications. She is a contributing editor at Scientific American magazine and has been a columnist for The New York Times and for Slate.
As a 2018 Alicia Patterson fellow, Moyer wrote an award-winning op-ed for The New York Times and traveled to Guinea-Bissau for a Scientific American story that was featured in the 2020 Best Science and Nature Writing anthology. A feature she wrote about factory farming and antibiotic resistance in 2017 was a finalist for a National Magazine Award, and a story she wrote about the public health impact of gun ownership, which involved a road trip through the Deep South, won the 2018 Excellence in Reporting Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Melinda has been a featured guest on many local and national radio shows and news networks and has been invited to give lectures all around the world.
Recent Articles
- The Benefits and Risks of Fluoride, Explained
- ‘A Poison in the System’: The Epidemic of Military Sexual Assault
- Pediatricians Shift Tactics to Sway Vaccine Skeptics
- Women Are Calling Out ‘Medical Gaslighting’
- Why Your Kids’ Bad Behavior May Be a Good Thing
- How to Support a Child on the Transgender Spectrum
- The Best Way to Comfort Someone When They’re Sad
- The Kids Are All Right
- Hearts on Fire
- Could a Single Live Vaccine Protect against a Multitude of Diseases?
- A Wave of Resurgent Epidemics Has Hit the U.S.
- More Guns Do Not Stop More Crimes, Evidence Shows
- What Science Says about How to Get Preschool Right
- How Drug-Resistant Bacteria Travel from the Farm to Your Table
Awards & Honors
- 2026 Honorable Mention, American Society of Journalists and Authors book awards
- 2022 Gold Medal winner, Living Now Book Awards
- 2022 Winner, Excellence in Science Journalism award, The Society for Personality and Social Psychology
- 2019 Winner, Bricker Award for Science Writing in Medicine
- 2019 Finalist, National Academy of Sciences Communication Award
- 2019 Winner, Outstanding Opinion Article, the American Society of Journalists and Authors’ Writing Awards
- 2018 Fellowship awardee, Alicia Patterson Foundation
- 2018 Winner, Excellence in Reporting Award, the American Society of Journalists and Authors’ Writing Awards
- 2018 Winner, June Roth Award, the American Society of Journalists and Authors’ Writing Awards
- 2017 Winner, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Media Award
- 2017 Winner, Folio Eddie award for best single article in Consumer: Science/Technology
- 2017 Winner, Awards for Excellence in Health Care Reporting
- 2017 Finalist, National Magazine Award
- 2017 Finalist, Science in Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers
- 2012 Finalist, James Beard Journalism Award
- 2012 Winner, Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Journalism Award
- 2010 Winner, American College of Emergency Physicians Journalism of Excellence Award