
Jess Craig
Future Perfect Fellow
Jess Craig is a Future Perfect fellow covering global public health, science, and environment. Previously, she worked as an infectious diseases epidemiologist and global health security adviser supporting various US government agencies, multilateral organizations, and private research institutes.
Jess has worked as a multimedia freelance journalist and foreign correspondent covering emerging technologies, development, Indigenous communities, and neglected conflicts and crises. In 2020, Jess was an American Association for the Advancement of Science Mass Media fellow. In 2021, she received a Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists grant to report on the impacts of climate change and illegal commercial concessions in the Congo.
Jess holds undergraduate degrees in microbiology and English writing and a graduate degree in public health. She can be reached at jessica.craig@vox.com.
Latest articles by Jess Craig


An intervention to reduce child mortality may accelerate drug resistance.

Supporting groups that work on malaria, lead poisoning, and other health issues can make a big difference with just a little money.

Volunteers, not FEMA, are the bedrock of disaster response. How do we best support them?


Preventing the disease can improve the quality of life for thousands.


Rwandan public health officials have a strategy that could help prevent further outbreaks.

Bacteria-eating viruses might be able to fight antibiotic resistance where new treatments are most needed.


The Georgia chemical plant fire, explained.


How diseases like cancer and diabetes are growing, explained in four charts.

From granola bars to chips, more studies are revealing that UPFs are tied to diseases like cancer and depression.

But there might be global consequences.