Nick Loomis
Investigative Reporter, NPR's Midwest NewsroomExpertise: Reporting, writing and producing stories on health and health care, human rights, religion, agriculture and West/Central African culture and politics
Education: Master's degree from the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, Bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa
Favorite Iowa Destination: Effigy Mounds
Experience:
- Recently returned to the Midwest after living and working abroad as a reporter for nearly 14 years
- Has reported from more than 25 countries
- Was regularly deployed by the BBC throughout West and Central Africa to report across TV, radio and digital platforms in English and French
- Has produced several short documentary films, including one that helped to reshape drug treatment policies throughout West Africa
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Federal agencies have mandated and facilitated testing for the H5N1 virus to try to protect birds, cows and humans; researchers in the Midwest hope those efforts continue under the new presidential administration.
