Najifa Farhat
Health ReporterNajifa Farhat is an award-winning investigative reporter covering health for KBIA’s Health and Wealth Desk. Her reporting focuses on the intersection of health and broader issues of well-being, including environmental and climate impacts, food security, marginalized communities, and emerging solutions and technologies. She approaches her work with the belief that every story has a health component.
Farhat holds a master’s degree in environmental journalism from the University of Montana and has reported extensively across the Mountain West, Southwest Michigan and now, Missouri.
She can be reached at najifa.farhat@missouri.edu
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On this month’s Socially Transmitted, KBIA's Najifa Farhat and Rebecca Smith look at what we do and do not know about the practice of mouth taping. -
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services data show 254 people died from heat-related causes between 2014 and 2026. About 6% of those deaths were listed as being related to occupational activities. -
The Climate Prediction Center says parts of southwestern Missouri could experience rapidly developing drought and extreme heat in early September -
Here's a roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA Newsroom -
On this month's Socially Transmitted, reporters Najifa Farhat and Rebecca Smith examine the safety of drinking raw milk. -
Researchers examined 202 monitoring locations across Missouri and found potentially unsafe levels of fecal indicator bacteria at 171 locations, or 85% of the sites, on at least one day of testing. -
A recent analysis by ValuePenguin found the estimated number of pickleball-related injuries treated in U.S. emergency rooms nearly quadrupled between 2018 and 2025, with falls, slips and trips accounting for nearly 65,000 ER visits nationwide. -
Missouri blood centers say they have not reached the point of issuing an emergency appeal yet but are watching closely -
Before the smelter shut down in 2024, air monitors showed the surrounding area exceeded the federal one-hour sulfur dioxide standard -
In Missouri, nearly 600 people have fallen ill after fresh produce products identified as potential sources in the outbreak reached grocery store shelves across the state.
