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Kentucky Health News welcomes a new reporter, writer and blogger: Molly Burchett, a master's student in health communication at the University of Kentucky.
Burchett graduated from Transylvania University in 2009 where she studied business and communication. She was president of the Student Government Association and a yearbook editor. Her jobs before UK included development director for a Lexington medical practice. She started her master's program in August 2012 and is focused on raising awareness about community health issues in ways that can encourage positive changes in health behavior.
She is from Prestonsburg, where her father and mother are the lead physician and manager of Prestonsburg Primary Care. She is a graduate of Prestonsburg High School. At KHN she follows Tara Kaprowy and Amy Wilson, who have both returned to freelance journalism.
Kentucky Health News is funded by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky but is independently reported and edited by UK's Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.
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Molly Burchett is new chief writer for Kentucky Health News
Burchett graduated from Transylvania University in 2009 where she studied business and communication. She was president of the Student Government Association and a yearbook editor. Her jobs before UK included development director for a Lexington medical practice. She started her master's program in August 2012 and is focused on raising awareness about community health issues in ways that can encourage positive changes in health behavior.
She is from Prestonsburg, where her father and mother are the lead physician and manager of Prestonsburg Primary Care. She is a graduate of Prestonsburg High School. At KHN she follows Tara Kaprowy and Amy Wilson, who have both returned to freelance journalism.
Kentucky Health News is funded by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky but is independently reported and edited by UK's Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.
- Psychologists Honor Khn Publisher Cross For Health Work
The Kentucky Psychological Association recently recognized Kentucky Health News Publisher Al Cross, director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of Kentucky, for "his outstanding career in journalism, his...
- Experts Explain Changes To State Prescription-tracking System
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The Kentucky All-Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting system, the key to fighting doctor-shopping for painkillers in the state, has undergone several changes since the legislature passed House Bill 1 last year...
- Poll Shows Depth Of Prescription Drug Abuse In Kentucky
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News One-third of Kentucky adults have friends or relatives who have experienced problems from abusing prescription pain relievers, and 8 percent have used pain medicine when it wasn't prescribed or for...
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