Climate change threatens to undo 50 years of public health gains. I’m here to tell that story.

My name is Zoya and I cover climate change and human health for the national climate change magazine Grist, where I have been a reporter since 2018.

Prior to joining Grist, I worked at Vox Media’s The Verge, wrote headlines for Haaretz, and reported for amNewYork. I graduated from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study with a degree in environmental journalism. My work can be found in Rolling Stone, Wired, AP, NBC, the Seattle Times, and other outlets.

I covered many aspects of the climate crisis — decarbonization, politics, natural gas — before finding my beat at the intersection of rising temperatures and public health. For the past three years, I have been exploring the myriad ways in which climate change influences our health, an overlap that we are just beginning to understand the importance of.