Erica Zurek
Senior Health Reporter
Meet Erica Zurek
Erica Zurek is a senior health reporter at MPR News.
Erica began her multimedia journalism career in Montana where she reported on health, policy, the environment and other subjects. Her reporting has appeared on WBUR’s “Here & Now,” Montana Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and in KFF Health News, NPR, CBS News, the Daily Montanan and elsewhere.
Before journalism, Erica worked in violence prevention, taught high school and led a peer health educator program at Western Washington University. She also guided climbing, backpacking and sea kayaking trips in the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia and Alaska.
Erica has a master's degree in environmental science and natural resource journalism from the University of Montana. She recently returned to Minnesota after 25 years in the American West. She is excited to learn about the flora and fauna in Minnesota’s biomes and try cold-water surfing in Lake Superior.
Recent Contributions
- Minnesota Department of Health announces layoffs amid federal funding cuts
- What to know now about measles in Minnesota after one case confirmed in state resident
- Trump administration says it will pull back billions in COVID funding from local health departments
- Minnesota National Guard members receive email instructing those with gender dysphoria to voluntarily separate
- ‘Identical patients’: A Minneapolis ER doc remembers the COVID-19 surge
- Minnesota cancer researchers face uncertainty amid sudden proposed changes to NIH funding rules
- Minnesota joins lawsuit against Trump’s move to restrict gender-affirming care
- University of Minnesota and Essentia announce new health care alliance
- Minnesota sees decline in flu and COVID-19 hospitalizations, RSV cases climb
- ‘Winter bug’ norovirus surges in Minnesota with unusually high number of cases