Steve Baragona is an award-winning multimedia journalist covering science, environment and health for Voice of America (VOA). His work has focused on the ways climate change impacts people鈥攆rom the economy and policy to health and human rights. He has reported on the relationship between , , the Paris Agreement and everything in between.
Baragona joined VOA as an international health reporter from 2002 to 2004. He then spent more than four years as communications and public affairs officer for the Infectious Diseases Society of America before returning to VOA as a food, agriculture and nutrition correspondent. He assumed his current role as a science correspondent with VOA in 2013.
Before his career in journalism, he spent eight years in molecular biology and infectious disease research before deciding that writing about science was more fun than doing it. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a master鈥檚 degree in journalism in 2002.听
