Michal Ruprecht

Michal Ruprecht is a contributor to NPR's science desk. He reports on how power, misinformation, and prejudice shape who gets care and who is left behind. He focuses on nuanced issues affecting patients and providers, rather than flashy medical breakthroughs that rarely reach the communities that need them most.

Previously, he worked at NPR as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow and Stanford Global Health Media Fellow. As a Stanford fellow, Ruprecht spent a semester taking graduate-level journalism courses through the Stanford Journalism Program. Alongside his studies, he became the first fellow to receive a reporting fellowship at NPR, working for the outlet while completing coursework. Building on this work, he later worked at CNN, reporting on how the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is affecting foreign-born doctors.

He has also interned at ABC News and MedPage Today during medical school. In college, he interned with the American Public Health Association and reported for The Michigan Daily, the University of Michigan's independent daily student newspaper. Ruprecht was a finalist for the 2026 Nicholas Kristof Reporting Trip.

Ruprecht is a fourth-year medical student at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He graduated with honors and holds a B.S. in neuroscience from the University of Michigan in 2022.

Ruprecht serves on the boards of the Michigan Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Riley's Way Foundation. He is a student advisory board member of the Society of Professional Journalists and a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists Membership Committee.