Health Reporters and Journalists - 2024 Contact List

Jessica is the editor for products and reviews at GoodHousekeeping.com, and a longtime product tester, reviewer, writer, and editor for beauty, lifestyle, health, and home content. Previously, she worked as Beauty Editor at USA TODAY's Reviewed and has covered lifestyle and travel trends for publications like The Boston Globe and The New York Times. She’s a graduate of Northeastern University’s school of journalism. When she’s not fawning over new beauty releases and researching the best products on the market, you can find her eating pizza and/or petting dogs (especially her rescue, Redford).

Specialties: Health Law, Compliance, Reimbursement

Hilary Brueck is a senior health and science reporter at Insider where she focuses on public health and human performance. Hilary writes regularly about fitness, nutrition, infectious diseases, vaccine safety, mental health, and toilets of all kinds. Her reports range from exploring how sherpas effortlessly climb into the thin air 29,029 feet above the sea to summit Mount Everest, to revealing how the chemicals in our food, water, and homes influence our bodies.

Experienced attorney with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Westlaw, legal research, editing, and legal writing. Strong media and communication professional.

I'm a senior healthcare reporter for Business Insider, reporting about the intersection of policy, politics, and business. My stories are reported from Congress, the White House, the Department of Health and Human Services, and association meetings across Washington, D.C. I have written about the ins and outs of the Affordable Care Act; interviewed communities in the midst of the opioid crisis; and shed light on social policies, including paid family leave, religious objections in medicine, abortion, and medically assisted suicide. I am passionate about public health, including the prevention of infectious disease; how changes in communities, homes, and schools can keep people out of doctors offices and hospitals; and how policies can encourage people to make healthier choices.I regularly appear at live events and multiple radio outlets, as well as CNN, Fox News, and C-SPAN. I hold a bachelor's degree from the University of Richmond, where I completed all my academic requirements in less than three years. My work has appeared in the Washington Post, Kaiser Health News, and The Atlantic.

I'm a healthcare reporter at Business Insider, covering the pharmaceutical world and biotech industry. I previously covered the drug industry for BioPharma Dive.

Versatile print and digital men's lifestyle editor with more than 10 years of experience working for a wide range of service-driven national consumer magazines, as well as regional and custom publications.

Irvine-based Roy M. Wallack writes about health and fitness for various publications. An endurance cyclist and runner, he has competed in some of the world's toughest athletic challenges, including the Eco-Challenge, the 750-mile Paris-Brest-Paris ride, and the Badwater Ultramarathon. His latest book is "Bike for Life: How to Ride to 100."

I write about how to do more with your consumer gadgets. I’ve been writing about technology, gadgets, and pop culture for the past two decades. I’ve seen the rise and fall (and rise again) of Apple. I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate… In addition to Forbes.com, I am a contributor at The Roarbots, Book Riot, and GeekDad. As a technical writer, I specialize in deciphering the undecipherable, untangling the kraken-like documentation tangles that software companies find themselves in, and teaching users how to successfully navigate their products on the other side.

I am a freelance reporter and writer focused on entrepreneurship, small business, HR/workplace, personal finance, healthcare and logistics. Ex-Dow Jones Newswires and AP.

I'm a health and science writer for Lifehacker, Medscape, and others. Member of NASW and AHCJ. Author of Outbreak: 50 Tales of Epidemics That Terrorized the World (Adams Media, October 2016) My current interests: evidence-based medicine, nutrition, fitness, healthcare costs, microbiomes, maternal health, sports injuries, infectious disease, vaccines, public health, women's health.

Scott covers health care, tourism, sports business and economic development.

Maryn McKenna is an independent journalist and author who specializes in public health, global health and food policy. She is a contributor at National Geographic, where she also helped launch the award-winning food site The Plate, and a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. She is one of the stars of the 2014 documentary Resistance, and her 2015 TED Talk, "What do we do when antibiotics don't work any more?", has been viewed 1.4 million times and translated into 30 languages.

Healthcare reporter at @washingtonpost. Author of The Health 202. paige.cunningham (at) washpost (dot) com

Melinda Beck is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, writing the weekly Health Journal column in the Personal Journal section and related features.

Reed Abelson has been a reporter for The New York Times since 1995. She currently covers the business of health care, focusing on health insurance and how financial incentives affect the delivery of medical care.

Brian O’Connell is a Doylestown, Pennsylvania-based freelance writer with 17 years experience covering business news and trends, particularly in the financial, health and sciences, Internet and technology, political and career management sectors.

Ross Andersen is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees the Science, Technology, and Health sections. He was previously deputy editor of Aeon Magazine.

Genevieve Scarano is a native New Yorker who loves reporting and photography. She enjoys writing about many topics, including business, fashion, health, retail and technology. Her work has been featured in Sourcing Journal, The Huffington Post, Urbanette Magazine and other publications.

I am MIT Technology Review’s associate editor for biomedicine, reporting from Washington, D.C. I look for stories about how biotechnology and innovations in medicine are changing our health and livelihoods—and at what cost. I am also interested in the degree to which these advances affect health equity around the world. Previously, I was a contributor at Forbes and an associate editor at FierceBiotech.

Deborah Kotz writes the Daily Dose column for the Boston Globe and is a consumer health reporter. She’s been covering the health beat for more than two decades and previously worked as a senior writer for US News and World Report.

Executive Editor @Medscape by WebMD; contributor @SciAm and @NPR; health, science and former donut writer