Margaret Manto

Former Reporter & AJI Fellow

Margaret covered science and health policy for NOTUS.

She received her bachelor’s degree in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2019. Before NOTUS, she was a biologist developing environmentally friendly agricultural products. She began her reporting career as a freelancer for C-Ville Weekly and Charlottesville Tomorrow.

Brown’s President Says the Trump Administration Is Withholding Millions in Grant Funding

May 01, 2025 03:31 p.m.
Health Leaders Throw Cold Water on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Sweeping Goals and Fast Timelines

April 23, 2025 12:55 p.m.
DOGE Is On a Tear at HHS. Even Insiders Are Struggling to Keep Up.

April 22, 2025 05:31 a.m.
RFK Jr. Says He Will Find the ‘Environmental Toxin’ Behind the Rise in Autism

April 16, 2025 01:06 p.m.
Where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is Aligning With His Old Anti-Vaccine Organization

April 11, 2025 05:47 a.m.
Republicans Don’t Have a Cohesive Message on Measles — Except That They Support RFK Jr.

April 02, 2025 11:35 a.m.
DOGE Orders HHS to Cut 35% of Contract Spending

April 02, 2025 10:48 a.m.
Top CDC Officials Get a Choice: Move Far Away or Quit

April 01, 2025 04:03 p.m.
‘This Is a Safe Media Space’: Behind the Strategic Insulation of the MAHA Movement

March 28, 2025 05:17 a.m.
DOGE is Slashing HHS Personnel and Health Projects. States Are Already Feeling the Strain.

March 28, 2025 05:03 a.m.
The Department of Health and Human Services Is Facing Major Cuts — And DOGE Is Already at NIH

March 27, 2025 09:34 a.m.
Trump’s CDC Pick Is a Standard Bureaucrat. MAHA Activists Are Furious.

March 25, 2025 08:59 p.m.
A Flu Recommendations Vote Was Scrapped From an Upcoming Vaccine Advisory Committee Meeting

March 21, 2025 01:53 p.m.
The NIH Is Quietly Laying Off Contract Workers

March 20, 2025 05:01 p.m.
‘We Don’t Know Anything’: Senators Blindsided by Cancelled CDC Nomination

March 13, 2025 10:46 a.m.
DOGE Fired NIH Employees Who Worked on Lab Leak Prevention

March 12, 2025 01:40 p.m.