Farrah Anderson
Investigative Health ReporterFarrah Anderson is an investigative health reporter at WFYI and Side Effects Public Media. Most recently, she worked at Invisible Institute producing police accountability investigations in collaboration with Illinois Public Media and as a fellow with the Investigative Reporting Workshop in Washington, DC.
Farrah has published work with The New York Times, National Public Radio, The Intercept, The Appeal, Wisconsin Watch, and St. Louis Public Radio. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Central Illinois native.
Contact her at fanderson@wfyi.org and follow her on X at @farrahsoa.
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The term “excited delirium” has been used as a diagnosis to describe people who die suddenly in police custody. But physicians and medical boards have long dismissed excited delirium as unscientific, and some argue it’s used by police to avoid accountability and justify excessive force.
