Cheryl Platzman Weinstock is an award–winning science journalist who regularly reports about health and science research. She specializes in writing deeply reported features about the biggest public health issues in America using a population-wide lens to address systemic factors across entire communities. Her work has appeared in KFF Health News, The New York Times, NPR, AARP, Reuters, Newsday and other major national outlets.
She recently investigated how the crackdown on immigration has increased domestic violence against undocumented immigrants, the alarming number of suicides among children in the foster care system, as well as why national suicide prevention strategies and school threat assessment teams tasked with preventing school shootings are failing.
She has earned many national awards and fellowships, including a 2023-2024 grant from the NIHCM Foundation to investigate disparities in mental health care and suicide prevention and the 2019 SAVE national media award for excellence in reporting on suicide.
She has won gold and bronze awards in the 30th Mature Media Competition for her reporting on COVID for AARP, as well as several National Federation of Press Women awards, The American Society of Journalists and Authors Arlene Eisenberg Award for Writing That Makes a Difference and the New England Chapter of the American Medical Writer’s Association Will Solimene Award for Excellence.
Weinstock also frequently writes and reports on metropolitan and breaking news for The New York Times. She contributed to the newspaper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of 9/11.
Weinstock is a member of the Connecticut Suicide Advisory Board which influences her work.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in biology from Brooklyn College and a Master of Arts in journalism and a certificate in science and environmental reporting from New York University. She was an intern at Newsday’s “Discovery” section before launching her freelance career.
Weinstock has been an adjunct professor of journalism at Brooklyn College, York College and Long Island University and also teaches writing at public relations firms and other corporate venues.
She is a frequent speaker on women’ health. In 2011 she began, “Shop Talk,” a program bringing important health news to women during department store lunch and learn sessions. The program launched at Saks Fifth Avenue. She often present at Bloomingdales.
She is a member, past board member and was chair for several years of the awards committee of ASJA. She has also been a member of the awards and freelance committee of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and is currently a member of the freelance committee of the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ).
She is active in many charities, including being a board member of Pink Aid which helps under-served breast cancer patients survive treatment with support and dignity.
She recently investigated how the crackdown on immigration has increased domestic violence against undocumented immigrants, the alarming number of suicides among children in the foster care system, as well as why national suicide prevention strategies and school threat assessment teams tasked with preventing school shootings are failing.
She has earned many national awards and fellowships, including a 2023-2024 grant from the NIHCM Foundation to investigate disparities in mental health care and suicide prevention and the 2019 SAVE national media award for excellence in reporting on suicide.
She has won gold and bronze awards in the 30th Mature Media Competition for her reporting on COVID for AARP, as well as several National Federation of Press Women awards, The American Society of Journalists and Authors Arlene Eisenberg Award for Writing That Makes a Difference and the New England Chapter of the American Medical Writer’s Association Will Solimene Award for Excellence.
Weinstock also frequently writes and reports on metropolitan and breaking news for The New York Times. She contributed to the newspaper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of 9/11.
Weinstock is a member of the Connecticut Suicide Advisory Board which influences her work.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in biology from Brooklyn College and a Master of Arts in journalism and a certificate in science and environmental reporting from New York University. She was an intern at Newsday’s “Discovery” section before launching her freelance career.
Weinstock has been an adjunct professor of journalism at Brooklyn College, York College and Long Island University and also teaches writing at public relations firms and other corporate venues.
She is a frequent speaker on women’ health. In 2011 she began, “Shop Talk,” a program bringing important health news to women during department store lunch and learn sessions. The program launched at Saks Fifth Avenue. She often present at Bloomingdales.
She is a member, past board member and was chair for several years of the awards committee of ASJA. She has also been a member of the awards and freelance committee of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and is currently a member of the freelance committee of the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ).
She is active in many charities, including being a board member of Pink Aid which helps under-served breast cancer patients survive treatment with support and dignity.