Katie Scarlett Brandt is an award-winning journalist and editor-in-chief for Chicago Health andCaregiving magazines. She was a 2023 Journalists-in-Aging Reporting Fellow with The Gerontological Society of America and the Journalists Network on Generations, as well as a 2021 fellow with the National Cancer Institute and Association for Health Care Journalists. Her interest in covering topics such as public health, environmental health, and the homelessness crisis grew out of her time at Ohio University, where she studied journalism and Spanish.