Michal Ruprecht is a contributor to NPR‘s science desk and a fourth-year medical student at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He reports on how power, misinformation and prejudice shape who gets care and who is left behind. Ruprecht previously worked at NPR as an AAAS Mass Media Fellow and Stanford Global Health Media Fellow. As a Stanford fellow, Ruprecht spent a semester taking graduate-level journalism courses through the Stanford Journalism Program. Alongside his studies, he became the first fellow to receive a reporting fellowship at NPR, working for the outlet while completing coursework. He later worked at CNN, reporting on how the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is affecting foreign-born doctors. He also spent a month in Uganda reporting on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with support from The Pulitzer Center. He has also interned at ABC News and MedPage Today during medical school. Ruprecht serves on the boards of the Michigan Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Riley’s Way Foundation. He is a student advisory board member of the Society of Professional Journalists and a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists Membership Committee.