Michal Ruprecht
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My name is Michal Ruprecht, and I’m a medical student and health reporter. I cover global health for NPR as a Stanford Global Health Media Fellow, reporting on how power, misinformation and prejudice shape who gets care and who is left behind. I leverage my medical training to inform the types of stories I write. I focus on nuanced issues affecting patients and providers in the Global South, rather than flashy medical breakthroughs that rarely reach the communities that need them most.

As a Stanford Global Health Media Fellow, I spent a semester taking graduate-level journalism courses through the Stanford Journalism Program. Alongside my studies, I became the first fellow to receive a reporting fellowship at NPR, working for the outlet while completing my coursework. Building on my work at Stanford and NPR, I will report for CNN and complete a reporting trip abroad.

Previously, I worked at NPR as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow and interned at ABC News and MedPage Today during medical school. In college, I interned with the American Public Health Association and reported for The Michigan Daily, the University of Michigan's independent daily student newspaper.

Beyond reporting, I serve on the Society of Professional Journalists Student Advisory Board, where I advocate for press freedom and industry ethics. I'm also a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists Membership Committee.

I am a fourth-year MD student at Wayne State University School of Medicine. I serve on the board of directors of the Michigan Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Riley’s Way Foundation, a nonprofit that invests in the next generation of kind leaders. I graduated with honors with a Bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from the University of Michigan in 2022, where I leveraged community action and social change to partner with individuals affected by the Flint water crisis. For my senior thesis, I studied a membrane protein and created three ceramic sculptures representing the channel.

Outside of work, I am passionate about brewing jun kombucha, sculptural ceramics in the realm of BioArt, contemporary literary fiction, vinyasa yoga, international half marathons, taro bubble tea, open water swimming and caring for my Anthurium house plant. I've been an avid listener of the "How I Built This" podcast since 2017 and stay updated with STAT's Morning Rounds Newsletter.

I am always open to story ideas. I receive a lot of pitches, but I read them all and respond quickly. I can be reached at mruprecht@umich.edu or on Signal at @mrup.01.

REPORTING

Global health
Domestic health *This article is cited in Merriam-Webster's Dictionary as an example of how to use the word emphasize in a sentence!

Discrimination and abuse in academia
Medical education
Health care policy
Sex and gender
Profiles and human-interest features
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Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Feasibility of implementation of the zero suicide model in community-based organizations serving Afghan refugees resettled in Michigan
Kaljee, L. M., Ahmedani, B., Srinivasan, S., Wells, E., Ruprecht, M. T., Ahmed, Y., Randall, S., Beckwith, C., & Keuten, J.
BMC Public Health, 2025 Management of a Pseudoaneurysm After Carotid-Esophageal Fistula Repair Secondary to Button Battery Ingestion in an Infant
Ruprecht, M. T., Arasa, V. C. A., Ortega, L. F. A., & Torres, A. R.
ACG Case Reports Journal, 2025 A Complex Presentation of Vestibular Paroxysmia in an Adolescent With Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
Nunez, M., Ruprecht, M. T., Aguirre, A. S., & Torres, A.
Pediatric Neurology, 2024 Engaging Caregivers through mHealth to Support Chronic Care Patients
Ruprecht, M. T., Kaljee, L., Zervos, J., Gleason, J., Lorenz-Goings, K., & Ashlock, G.
e-Service Journal, 2023 Membrane exporters of fluoride ion
McIlwain, B. C., Ruprecht, M. T., & Stockbridge, R. B.
Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2021 Synthesis of “three-legged” tri-dentate podand ligands incorporating long-chain aliphatic moieties, for water remediators, and for isolating metal ions in non-aqueous solution
Pothoof, J., Ruprecht, M. T., Sliwinski, B. D., Sosnowski, B. M., Fitzgerald, P. R., Kosmas, S., & Benvenuto, M. A.
Physical Sciences Reviews, 2018

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