Trenton Daniel

Trenton Daniel

Senior Reporter, Healthbeat

Trenton Daniel is a Senior Reporter for Healthbeat covering New York. Previously, he spent almost 14 years at The Associated Press, most recently as a reporter on the global investigations team using public records to break news and bolster the AP report. Trenton started at AP as its Haiti correspondent, in 2011, writing about reconstruction efforts following the 2010 earthquake and a subsequent cholera outbreak. Before AP, he spent almost eight years as a staff writer at The Miami Herald and reported extensively from Haiti, Iraq and throughout the Caribbean. Trenton also covered his share of hurricanes, homicides and zoning meetings. He lives in Brooklyn and, when not working, is probably training for a marathon by running an unhealthy number of laps inside Prospect Park.

FROM Chalkbeat New York
Staten Island high school bets on hologram therapists in new $500K mental health studio

The nearly $500,000 studio will let students meet virtually face-to-face with therapists miles away and explore creative uses of technology at a time when its impact on teen mental health is under scrutiny.

By 
Trenton Daniel
 | October 21
FROM Chalkbeat New York
9/11’s health effects on young people have received scant attention. A federal program wants to change that.

WTC Health Program will launch a group in 2027 to study people who were 21 and under on 9/11.

By 
Trenton Daniel
 | September 10
FROM Chalkbeat New York
NYC Council sends Mamdani a plan to address parents’ vaccine hesitancy

Rates of some childhood immunizations in New York City are starting to lag. A City Council plan tasks the health department and schools with educating parents about the importance and safety of the shots.

By 
Trenton Daniel
 | April 30
FROM Chalkbeat New York
NYC is offering 2,000 free child care seats by fall. Can the health department keep up with the background checks?

Concerned by a history of backlogs, the city council is looking to cut red tape for the health department, which will have to do background checks on new providers.

By 
Trenton Daniel
 | April 24
FROM Chalkbeat New York
NYC health budget plan: More support for children, less for fighting disease

The $2.51 billion spending plan includes increases for early childhood initiatives and a new public health lab - but less funding to fight communicable diseases, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis.

By 
Trenton Daniel
 | March 20