![St Fleur Nicholas Aih24](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/85377f9b-f07e-4cdd-b0db-19cd92c10217/St.Fleur_Nicholas_AIH24.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=294%2C64%2C5197%2C5210&w=290)
Nicholas St. Fleur
Science Reporter and Host of "Color Code" Podcast, STAT
Nicholas St. Fleur is a science reporter at STAT; host of STAT's health equity podcast, “Color Code;” and associate editorial director of events at STAT. He covers the intersection of race, medicine, and the life sciences. He came to STAT as a Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow in 2020. Prior to joining STAT, St. Fleur was a freelance science journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area covering archaeology, paleontology, space, and other curiosities of the cosmos. He previously worked for The New York Times and The Atlantic. St. Fleur won the 2021 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists and was a winner of the 2023 June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism.
Previously
![What Animal Health Can Teach Us](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/6988b843-bb9a-4c5f-9bb1-730a4d574952/53808903483_011fedee0e_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C9%2C5831%2C3280&w=400)
Human beings sometimes forget they are animals themselves. The biological and emotional patterns of other mammals—seen in cancer among golden retrievers, high blood pressure i...
![On Your Mark, Get Set, Go: The Power of Play at Any Age](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/284ebcb0-ee70-4812-8e61-21178da716bb/53810282838_c2d3e8654a_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C130%2C4651%2C2618&w=400)
From early childhood to advanced age, we all need some fun. Society hints that there is something childish, even self-indulgent, about playing, but it’s quite the opposite: pl...
![How To Dismantle Structural Racism in Health?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/26db16fe-9f06-4ff3-88be-c9edd1717752/53806498237_abd97894b4_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C4651%2C2618&w=400)
Structural racism, reflected in uneven access to care, inequitable community conditions, and the wealth gap, drives persisting racial disparities in health. Unconscionable dif...
![Closing Session](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/e2ae40ae-7c31-4abc-a20f-f50361ab7f37/230624_closing_036.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C416%2C4000%2C2251&w=400)
Featuring three one-on-one conversations, our tenth anniversary closing session is not to be missed! We begin with comedian Iliza Shlesinger, who opens up to bestselling autho...
![Does the Future of Medicine Lie in Space?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/49f630c0-e55d-4280-83e3-811cd5d81391/52997838775_d845b34459_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C5472%2C3080&w=400)
When it comes to biomedical research, Earth’s gravity can be an obstacle, making it harder to program stem cells into viable organs, obscuring the crystalline structure of pro...
![Health Tech Showcase](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/320852a7-03f5-4a15-94a4-9b8bac29dce0/52997834255_2e2fd28b10_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C8%2C5472%2C3071&w=400)
The belief that the paralyzed will walk and the deaf will hear is a staple of religion, literature, and myth. Now, technology is actually making that happen. Zeen has designed...
![Ready Next Time? Preparing for Another Pandemic](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/e96b06c3-4849-477a-88c6-628f03ab2156/aih-062223-pandemic-listing.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C67%2C533%2C300&w=400)
Scientists and policymakers all agree that another pandemic is inevitable—and that we are still not prepared. Whether it is a COVID mutation, a bird flu, or something entirely...
![Creative Tensions: How Can We Re-Build Trust in Healthcare?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/ad5a20b7-038c-49df-9a69-82942cdbcfed/52995181541_02f41678d8_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C5472%2C3078&w=400)
This interactive session led by Ideo.org recognizes that little is more personal than the health of our minds and bodies and that deciding to seek out healthcare is to acknowl...
![Aspen Ideas: Health Closing Session](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/58d8f325-7571-4e3e-9ab6-a52ad36a2404/52173013215_28a5718814_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C422%2C8256%2C4646&w=400)
A Conversation with Xavier Becerra, Interviewer: Kate Snow; A Conversation with Pavlo Kovtoniuk, Interviewer: Elizabeth Cohen; A Conversation with Deepika Chopra, Int...
![Finding Healthcare at Your Laundromat, Grocery Store, or Barber Shop](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/a6ca412e-e23e-4695-94b7-aef2ba028f2e/52170844305_2f44d899e2_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C131%2C6048%2C3397&w=400)
In some communities, the laundromat has become a place to get a mammogram, a blood test, or a skin cancer screening. Mental health counseling is being offered at churches, hea...
![Can Medicine Become More Equitable?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/ac33fbe9-7a65-4852-93bf-963d0ae7aafc/52172332406_d6c782dd49_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=562%2C608%2C5486%2C3088&w=400)
In its landmark 2002 study, Unequal Treatment, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) stated bluntly that racial and ethnic minorities receive lower-quality health services than whit...
![PhRMA Presents: Realizing the Promise of Health for All](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/1d476819-bcff-4471-9706-c689f4de2a50/220623_promisehealth_021.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C83%2C4000%2C2245&w=400)
America’s robust biomedical ecosystem and the therapeutic advances it has introduced are making remarkable progress against cancer, heart disease, stroke, and other serious il...