Helen Branswell, STAT News’s infectious disease correspondent, has died at the age of 69.
Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious disease earned wide respect among scientists and public health officials, has died at 69, according to a post by STAT News.
STAT described her as a reporter whose “accessible, prescient dispatches” won the trust of experts across the public health world. She was the outlet’s infectious disease reporter.
According to STAT News, she died from complications related to cancer, her sister Brenda Branswell said.



