About Me

I'm a journalist at The Wall Street Journal and a part of its News Associates program for early-career reporters. My background is in health care research. Before starting at The Journal, I worked at the Center for Advancing Health Policy Through Research, a nonpartisan health services research center. You can find my past work in Health Affairs, JAMA, The Boston Globe, Gothamist and WNYC.

I graduated in 2025 from Brown University, where I tried seven majors before settling on statistics and public health. But I spent most of my time on campus at our school paper, The Brown Daily Herald.

I grew up on Long Island and now live in Brooklyn.

Writing

Here is a selection of my work:

• How a Youth Wrestling Club Became a Multimillion-Dollar Gambling Operation — The Wall Street Journal.
• The American Servicemembers Who Were Killed in Kuwait — The Wall Street Journal.
• Epstein Files Fallout: 40 Famous Names and High-Profile Exits — The Wall Street Journal.
• The Famous Names in the Latest Release of Epstein Files — The Wall Street Journal.
• Epstein Used His Fortune to Infiltrate America’s Most Prestigious Universities — The Wall Street Journal.
• ‘Ignore It.’ How the Elite Consoled Jeffrey Epstein Over His Crimes. — The Wall Street Journal.
• Flirty Emails and Chummy Photos Show How Far Epstein Reached Into Business World — The Wall Street Journal.
• The Lawyer for the Agent Who Shot Renee Good Thinks ICE Has Gone Too Far — The Wall Street Journal.
• What We Know So Far About Alex Pretti — The Wall Street Journal.
• Border Patrol Agent Fatally Shoots Man in Minneapolis, Escalating State-Federal Standoff — The Wall Street Journal.
• Suspect in Brown University Shooting Confessed in Videos — The Wall Street Journal.
• Education Department Investigates Brown University’s Security Systems After Shooting — The Wall Street Journal.
• Two Young Physicists Seemed Destined for Greatness. Two Decades Later, One Shot the Other Dead. — The Wall Street Journal.
• Brown and MIT Shooting Suspect Found Dead in New Hampshire — The Wall Street Journal.
• Frustration Grows as Hunt for Brown Shooter Drags On — The Wall Street Journal.
• New Video Shows Suspected Brown Gunman’s Movements Before and After Attack — The Wall Street Journal.
• He Wasn’t Even in the Class. She Almost Switched Seats. Now Brown Is Mourning Them. — The Wall Street Journal.
• Police Ask Public to Help Identify Potential Brown Shooting Suspect Seen in New Videos — The Wall Street Journal.
• Person of Interest in Brown University Shooting Released as Manhunt Continues — The Wall Street Journal.
• A Night Huddled in Lockdown at Brown: ‘It Could’ve Been Any One of Us’ — The Wall Street Journal.
• Police Detain Person of Interest in Brown University Shooting While Campus Mourns — The Wall Street Journal.
• Brown University Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, 9 Injured — The Wall Street Journal.
• Unpacking Private Equity Investments In Drug Industry Third-Party Entities — Health Affairs Forefront.
• Transparency Reveals A Billing And Payments System In Need Of Overhaul — Health Affairs Forefront.
• The loophole that could allow another private equity debacle in Mass. health care — The Boston Globe.
• How Massachusetts’s New Health Care Reform Takes Aim at Private Equity — Health Affairs Forefront.
• The Corporate Backdoor to Medicine: How MSOs Are Reshaping Physician Practices — Milbank Memorial Fund.
• Forget Office Conversions. Cities Are Turning Old Hospitals Into Residential Housing. — The Wall Street Journal.
• California’s Failed Bid To Regulate Private Equity Investment In Health Care — Health Affairs Forefront.
• Related Closes In on Deal to Rescue Notoriously Stalled Massive Housing Project — The Wall Street Journal.
• The Anti-Adam Neumann of the Co-Working Industry — The Wall Street Journal.
• San Francisco Is Sinking in Bad Hotel Debt — The Wall Street Journal.
• Hotel Owners and Union Clash Over Proposal to Regulate Nonunion Hotels — The Wall Street Journal.
• America’s Smallest Apartments Are Getting Even Smaller — The Wall Street Journal.
• Foreign Buyers of U.S. Homes Pay Record Prices, but Sales Dwindle — The Wall Street Journal.
• Exclusive Ivy League Social Clubs Are Desperate for Members — The Wall Street Journal.
• Funeral for NJ's late Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver concludes 3-day state service — Gothamist.
• Inside a Brooklyn housing complex, where a third of tenants face eviction — Gothamist.
• NYC's eviction hotspots: Tracking the 10K removals since moratorium ended — Gothamist.
• As actors and writers strike continues, NYC freelancers brace for months without pay — Gothamist.
• City to open migrant relief center near old psychiatric hospital in Queens — Gothamist.
• Nearly 400 Department of Transportation employees sue city, alleging unpaid overtime — Gothamist.
• Queens residents concerned over migrant shelter on the grounds of an old psychiatric hospital — Gothamist.
• The NYPD doesn't report where it deploys police. So scientists used AI, dashcams to find out. — Gothamist.
• NYC says it's winning war on rats as monthly complaints remain below last year's epic highs — Gothamist.
• NYC broker fees are skyrocketing. The City Council is trying to put the fees on landlords. — Gothamist.
• MAP: Harlem Council race leads turnout in NYC primary election — Gothamist.
• NYC board votes to increase rents on 1 million rent-stabilized units by 3% — Gothamist.
• Rat complaints in NYC fell 15% vs. a year ago. But are we just getting used to them? — Gothamist.

Research

Here are some of my recent projects:

• Mehta, Neil; Jena, Anupam B. 2025. Changes in diversity language in National Institutes of Health grant awards: observational study. BMJ 391: e087222. doi:10.1136/bmj-2025-087222.
• Gaudino, Stephen J; Beaupre, Michael; Lin, Xun; Joshi, Preet; Rathi, Sonika; McLaughlin, Patrick A; Kempen, Cody; Mehta, Neil; Eskiocak, Onur; Yueh, Brian. 2021. IL-22 receptor signaling in Paneth cells is critical for their maturation, microbiota colonization, Th17-related immune responses, and anti-Salmonella immunity. Mucosal Immunology 14(2): 389–401.
• Nguyen, Thuy D; Whaley, Christopher M; Simon, Kosali; Mehta, Neil; Yu, Hao; McBain, Ryan K; Mehrotra, Ateev; Cantor, Jonathan H. 2025. Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in the Health Care Sector. JAMA Health Forum 6(11): e255029–e255029.
• Duanmu, Hongyi; Ren, Thomas; Li, Haifang; Mehta, Neil; Singer, Adam J; Levsky, Jeffrey M; Lipton, Michael L; Duong, Tim Q. 2022. Deep learning of longitudinal chest X-ray and clinical variables predicts duration on ventilator and mortality in COVID-19 patients. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 21(1): 1–15.
• Babar, Mustufa; Jamil, Hasan; Mehta, Neil; Moutwakil, Ahmed; Duong, Tim Q. 2024. Short-and Long-Term Chest-CT Findings after Recovery from COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Diagnostics 14(6): 621.
• Mehta, Neil; Brown, Erin Fuse; Arnold, Daniel. 2025 Closing the Gaps: Policy Solutions for Cross-Market Hospital Mergers Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) Digital Collection. doi:10.26300/3ksg-qz14.
• Singh, Simran; Mehta, Neil; Noh, Madeline; Bond, Keosha; Threats, Megan; Jackson, John; Nnawulezi, Nkiru; Mercedes, Marquisele; Agénor, Madina. 2025. Weight-Based Health Care Discrimination and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Black Sexual and Gender Minoritized Assigned Female at Birth Adults in the United States. Health Equity 9(1): 22–30.
• Mehta, Neil; Assenov, Assen; Ogletree, Aaron; Farhat, Tilda. 2023. Using a Novel Socioeconomic and Health Indicator Visualization Tool to Improve Minority Health. Value in Health 26(6): S372.
• Noh, Madeline; Mehta, Neil; Kim, Christine; Bond, Keosha; Threats, Megan; Jackson, John W.; Nnawulezi, Nkiru; Agénor, Madina. 2025. Association between healthcare discrimination and medical mistrust among Black sexual and gender minoritized assigned female at birth adults in the United States. LGBT Health.
• Singh, Yashaswini; Murray, Roslyn; Reddy, Megha; Perkins, Jared; Mehta, Neil; Whaley, Christopher; Brown, Erin Fuse. 2025. Private Equity Investments in Physician Practices in Maryland: A Report Prepared for the Maryland Health Care Commission.

Contact Me

Reach me via email: neil[dot]mehta[at]wsj[dot]com. For confidential tips, reach me via Signal at neilmehta.01.

You can also find me on X/Twitter @neilmhta, Linkedin @neilmhta and (most importantly) Spotify @neilmhta.

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