Gabrielle Emanuel joined WBUR as a senior health and science reporter in 2021. She started her journalism career at NPR — first as a Kroc Fellow, then as a reporting fellow for the education team. She also spent five years as a reporter at GBH.
Gabrielle’s stories regularly appear on NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered and she has reported episodes for Planet Money and Code Switch. Her work has appeared in The New York Times and The Atlantic.
She has received numerous awards, including national and regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, a Sigma Delta Chi Award and a Clarion Award. Gabrielle received her bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and her doctorate from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
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Pregnant newcomers to Mass. can face hurdles when seeking care
As Massachusetts grapples with an increase in new immigration, medical care is one of the challenges. This is particularly true for people who are pregnant. Patients and medical teams report...
Tracing the path to Massachusetts for thousands of new Haitian immigrants
Massachusetts has seen a dramatic increase in the number of immigrants moving to the state, and local officials say it is straining the state's safety net. While each person has...
Checking in on the state's emergency shelter system
WBUR's Gabrielle Emanuel shares the story of one family living in one of the state's overflow shelter sites. Then, we find out more about the latest overflow shelter site that...
Massachusetts overflow shelters, as seen through one family’s eyes
Since arriving in Massachusetts in mid-December, John's family has been on a harrowing journey. With their young daughter, he and his wife spent 12 nights sleeping on the hard floor...
Boston's Logan Airport is a 'de facto shelter' for homeless families
Between 100 and 200 people, including young children, have been sent by the state’s Family Welcome Centers to sleep in a baggage claim area. "I don't want to be rude,...
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Migrants sleep in Logan Airport amid emergency shelter shortage
Radio Boston digs into how migrants are surviving as they wait for shelter and what the state is doing to mitigate the growing crisis this year and beyond.
'Beyond terrible': With overflow shelters full, families huddle in cars and at Logan
More than 590 families are on the waitlist for the Massachusetts family shelter system. Recently created overflow sites have space for fewer than half of them. One homeless advocate called...
Dana-Farber seeks to retract 6 papers and correct 31 others
The papers allegedly contained manipulated images and charts. Research integrity has become a hot-button issue as political tensions have prompted increased scrutiny of academic institutions.
Toothbrushing dramatically lowers death rates among certain patients, study finds
Toothbrushing was particularly important for patients on a ventilator and in the Intensive Care Unit. The data show toothbrushing reduces the patient’s risk of pneumonia by about a third and...
Wheelchair repairs can take months; Mass. Senate passes bill aimed at fixing that
The bill requires wheelchairs have at least a two-year warranty — up from one year required under the current law. The bill also sets time limits on how quickly a...