About Me

Nicholas St. Fleur is an award-winning science and health journalist with a decade's worth of experience covering everything from medical research and health disparities to dinosaurs and outer space. He is also a live events host, programmer and panel moderator based in the Washington, D.C., area.

St. Fleur previously worked for STAT, The New York Times, and The Atlantic. At STAT, he reported on the intersection of race, medicine, and the life sciences, and hosted the award-winning health equity podcast "Color Code." In his role as the associate editorial director of events, he emceed, programmed and moderated STAT summits and other live events. Some notable figures he has interviewed onstage include Dr. Anthony Fauci, pop star Nick Jonas, 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki, astronaut Nicole Stott, and former surgeon general Dr. Jerome Adams. On the virtual stage, he has interviewed comedian Seth Rogan, Dr. Uché Blackstock, and Admiral Rachel Levine, among many others.

A 5,000-word feature he wrote about “hot spots of death” in the U.S., where young men are dying at higher rates from colorectal cancer, won the 2023 June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism. As part of the story, St. Fleur documented his own colonoscopy, which was featured on Good Morning America. The video was also awarded an EPPY award for Best Enterprise Video, which the judges said was “Impressive journalism! Interesting, factual, touching, informative and personal.”

St. Fleur's reporting on race, medicine and research won the 2021 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists. The judges said St. Fleur was recognized "for exploring issues of race, while being unsparing yet respectful in his storytelling." He is a recipient of the 2024 Lazarex Cancer Foundation’s Disruptor Award for his reporting on diversity in clinical trials.

He joined STAT in 2020 as a Knight-Wallace Fellow to report on racial health inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Before that, he worked at The New York Times as a science reporter and then as a freelance journalist covering archaeology, paleontology, space, and other curiosities of the cosmos. His reporting on Lithuanian mummies earned him the 2018 Gene S. Stuart Award from the Society for American Archaeology. At The New York Times, he was a lead reporter covering the 2017 Great American Eclipse.

He has moderated panels at many major events, including the Aspen Ideas Festival: Health, Milken Institute Global Conference and Future of Health Summit, HLTH, the Lake Nona Impact Forum, Web Summit, Rock Health Summit, the Behavioral Health Tech Conference and the American Psychological Association's Conference.

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St. Fleur also loves to write about science for kids. He is the author of the children’s book "Did You Know? Dinosaur" (DK Publishing and the Smithsonian) and has written several cover stories for The New York Times for Kids on topics from dinosaurs and great white sharks to exoplanets and the Perseverance Mars rover.

His work has appeared in Scientific American, Science, NPR, NatGeo for Kids, The San Jose Mercury News, and The Monterey County Herald. He is a founding co-chair of the National Association of Black Journalists' (NABJ) Science & Health Taskforce and is chair of the National Association of Science Writers' (NASW) Diversity Committee.

St. Fleur holds a B.S. in biology from Cornell University and is a graduate of the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.