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mattie-quinn

Mattie Quinn

Staff Writer

Mattie covers all things health for Governing. A native of Arkansas, she graduated with her M.S. from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism with a focus on public health reporting. Her work has been published in National Geographic, New York Magazine and The Atlantic.

Most schools aren't meeting the CDC's recommendations for teaching students about sex, and the curriculum is far worse in some states.
Like most rural areas, Alaska suffers from high rates of mental illness and a deficiency of mental health providers. The state may have a solution.
The explosion of online health-care apps and providers has forced states to face tough questions -- many of which they have yet to find an answer to.
The presidential candidate wants America to create a single-payer health system -- something no U.S. state has done before.
They're either debating or have already made big changes to their health-care programs for the poor.
Facing one of the highest infant mortality rates in the country, Columbus, Ohio, is taking the time to understand its unique causes.
But at least one state is leading the charge to change that.
There are a number of reasons emergency rooms get chaotic around the holidays -- some of which may be surprising.
States and cities spent this enrollment season finding creative ways to reach the millions who still have no health insurance.
Roughly 1 in 20 pregnant women use illicit drugs. States are cracking down on the problem with starkly different approaches.