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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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. -
Despite Missouri's rising case count, the state has not been included in the CDC's multistate outbreak investigation. -
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The new clinic on Commerce Street replaces the health system's previous Glasgow location with a larger, more accessible facility -
On this month’s Socially Transmitted, KBIA's Najifa Farhat and Rebecca Smith look at nicotine-free vapes, which allow people to inhale other substances, such as ginseng, melatonin and caffeine. -
Boone County had confirmed 37 cases as of Monday morning. -
Here's a roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA Newsroom
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The legislature-mandated report reviewed pregnancy-related deaths between 2019 and 2023. During that period, 340 Missouri women died while pregnant or within one year after the end of a pregnancy. -
A recent study published in the journal Transfusion found a growing number of patients and parents are requesting blood from donors who have not received COVID-19 vaccines — despite the fact that vaccination status is not a criteria for blood donation
