About
I’m Elizabeth Daube, a Philadelphia-based writer and editor who loves research. I specialize in turning complex ideas and information into stories that are clear, compelling and credible.
I write about health, science and society, covering topics ranging from Ozempic to cancer to sex hormones. As a contributing editor to UCSF Magazine, I work closely with some of the world’s leading medical researchers at the University of California, San Francisco – home to groundbreaking discoveries and Nobel Prize-winning faculty.
My reporting has taken me from HIV/AIDS clinics in Kenya to women’s empowerment initiatives in India, and I have produced global health and human rights stories for outlets including Public Radio International’s The World, The Huffington Post and Medium. My career started in Florida newsrooms, writing and editing for The Florida Times-Union, The Jacksonville Daily Record and The St. Augustine Record.
I hold a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Flagler College and master’s degrees in social work and public health from Boston University.
Selected Work
HEALTH & SCIENCE
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The trending health hazards you may not know about (UCSF, 2025)
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Are the new weight loss drugs too good to be true? (UCSF, 2024)
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The cancer breakthrough boom (UCSF, 2023)
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What you didn’t learn in school about sexual health (UCSF, 2022)
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Detoxing: can you buy your way to better health? (UCSF, 2022)
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Brain boosters: can puzzles and pills make us sharper? (UCSF, 2021)
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Probiotics: health hack or hype? (UCSF, 2021)
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An epidemic of inequality (UCSF, 2020)
GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS
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Every two seconds, another girl gets married (AJWS, 2019)
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Taking the road less traveled: Khushi’s story (AJWS, 2018)
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Hope for her daughters: Rekha’s story (AJWS, 2017)
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The end of the road: Burma’s refugees fear what will happen to them next (Huffington Post, 2014)
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In Kenya, sex workers want jobs and protection, but not just condoms (PRI’s The World, 2014)
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Best interests: who should be taking care of Kenya’s orphans? (Medium, 2014)
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Life on $3 a day: Cambodia’s garment workers (Huffington Post, 2014)