Dr. Andrea Velez

Dr. Andrea Velez edits the Fullimedia wellness desk. She is a physician and science journalist, with a clinical background and a health-policy focus, and she built the wellness beat around a single frustration: that most health content online is either fear-based or for sale.

Her beat is evidence-based wellness — preventive care, mental health, nutrition and fitness — reported with the same standards a good clinician would expect. She is interested in what the research actually says, how strong that evidence is, and what a reasonable person should do given genuine uncertainty. She has no patience for supplement marketing dressed up as science.

At Fullimedia, Dr. Velez insists that wellness coverage distinguish clearly between established findings and early signals, that it cite the studies it leans on, and that it never substitute for a reader's own clinician. She is especially focused on mental health and on the health-system and insurance decisions that shape what care people can actually access.

Dr. Velez is based in Madrid. She writes the way she wishes more doctors spoke to patients: plainly, honestly, and without overpromising.