List of Stat News Journalists and Reporters

1. Helen Branswell

Designation Senior Writer Author Bio Helen Branswell is a senior writer at STAT covering infectious diseases and global health; she joined STAT at its founding in 2015. Helen was introduced to epidemic reporting during the 2003 SARS outbreak; in the years since she has written about bird flu, the H1N1 flu pandemic, Ebola, Zika, polio, mpox, and led STAT’s coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. Helen was a 2011 Nieman Global Health Fellow at Harvard. She was the recipient of the 2020 George Polk Award for Public Service for coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic and was awarded the 2021 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Sci...ence Reporting.more
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2. Sarah Mupo

Designation Senior Copy And Production Editor Author Bio Sarah Mupo is the senior copy and production editor at STAT. She joined STAT at its founding in 2015 as a multiplatform editor. She previously worked as a copy editor for The Daily Item of Lynn, Mass., and for GateHouse Media, a publisher of newspapers nationwide. An Emerson College graduate, Sarah got her start in journalism as an intern for the Living/Arts section of the Boston Globe.
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3. Adam Feuers

Designation Senior Writer Author Bio Adam Feuerstein is a senior writer at STAT covering the intersection of biotech and Wall Street, and a co-host of
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4. Matthew Herper

Designation Senior Writer Author Bio Matthew Herper is a senior writer at STAT covering medicine, and oversees the editorial portion of STAT’s events, including its industry-leading Summits. He has covered medical innovation — both its promise and its perils — for two decades, writing about medicines from Lipitor to hydroxychloroquine and profiling figures from “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli to billionaire Bill Gates. Before joining STAT in 2019, he worked for 18 years at Forbes, where he wrote 17 cover stories.
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5. Ed Silverman

Designation Senior Writer Author Bio Ed Silverman is a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, and has covered the pharmaceutical industry for more than 25 years. Prior to joining STAT at its founding in 2015, he worked at The Wall Street Journal, The Star-Ledger of New Jersey, and New York Newsday, among other publications. He won the Gerald Loeb Award for business journalism commentary in 2018 for his Pharmalot View columns. Along with several former Wall Street Journal colleagues, Ed was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in explanatory journalism in 2016 for a series of stories on prescription drug pricing. He earned an account...ing degree from Binghamton University and a master’s in journalism from New York University.more
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6. Jon Keegan

Designation Contributor Author Bio Reporter at @themarkup. Previously @WSJ. https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser Signal: jonkeegan.73 https://t.co/OFbHgKEXpV
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7. Bob Herman

Designation Reporter Author Bio Bob Herman is a business of health care reporter at STAT. He covers hospitals, health insurance, and other corners of the industry — with a goal of explaining and shining light on the massive amount of money flowing through the system. Prior to joining STAT in 2022, he covered the health care industry at Axios for more than five years. He also previously was an editor and reporter covering health insurance and hospitals at Modern Healthcare. Bob and his family are based in Indiana, so naturally he has a deep love for all things basketball.
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8. Theresa Gaffney

Designation Reporter Author Bio Theresa Gaffney is a reporter and podcast producer at STAT. She graduated from the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, where she studied investigative health reporting. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Timmerman Report, and more. Before journalism, Theresa was a book publicist at Penguin Random House.
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9. Isabella Cueto

Designation Reporter Author Bio Isabella Cueto is a chronic disease reporter at STAT. She joined in 2021 as the inaugural Sharon Begley-STAT Science Reporting Fellow. Before coming to STAT, Isabella covered local government in Santa Cruz, Calif. She got her start working as a reporter for The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. Isabella is originally from Miami, where she attended the University of Miami, edited the student newspaper, and worked for South Florida's NPR station, WLRN. While interning at WLRN, she covered a Miami man's wrongful conviction as part of her work for Northwestern University's Medill Justice Project.
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10. Jason Mast

Designation Reporter Author Bio Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. He was previously a reporter at Endpoints News and, before that, spent a rather unsuccessful year as an English teacher in Israel. He’s currently in search of a large dog that will fit his tiny New York apartment.
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11. Allison DeAngelis

Designation Reporter Author Bio Allison DeAngelis is a biotech reporter at STAT, covering biopharma startups and venture capital. Prior to joining STAT, Allison covered the drug industry at Insider and the Boston Business Journal. She was named the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association's News Writer of the Year in 2016. She is based in Boston and, in non-pandemic times, enjoys traveling internationally.
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12. Nicholas Florko

Designation Reporter Author Bio Nicholas Florko is the commercial determinants of health reporter for STAT, reporting on how business decisions impact public health. Nick joined STAT in 2018 as a Washington correspondent and was the former author of the D.C. Diagnosis newsletter. He previously covered the Food and Drug Administration and drug pricing for Inside Health Policy.
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13. Eric Boodman

Designation General Assignment Reporter Author Bio Eric Boodman is a general assignment reporter at STAT, focused on narrative features. He's written about everything from entomologists who specialize in fictional infestations to lapses in infant death investigations. He joined STAT at its founding in 2015. He got his start in journalism in high school, reviewing bird books for the Montreal Gazette, before studying at Yale, and his stories have won the American Society of Magazine Editors
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14. Olivia Goldhill

Designation Investigative Reporter Author Bio Olivia Goldhill is an investigative reporter at STAT, focused on holding public bodies and corporations to account. She reports on reproductive health and mental health, and previously covered the Covid-19 pandemic. Her work has been recognized as a 2020 Livingston Award finalist, a 2021 EPPY finalist, and a 2024 New America National Fellow, supported by Jonathan Logan Family Foundation.
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15. Alexa Gagosz — Boston Globe

Designation Contributor Author Bio Business reporter with @BostonGlobe/ @Globe_RI covering housing & more. Author of the RI #FoodClub, a newsletter on restaurants. From CT. ****@globe.com
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16. Amanda Gokee — Boston Globe

Author Bio Journalist covering New Hampshire for @BostonGlobe /@Globe_NH. Formerly @NHBulletinNews and @VTDigger. Drop me a line! ****@globe.com
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17. Evan Allen — Boston Globe

Designation Contributor Author Bio Crime reporter for the Boston Globe. Contact me at ****@globe.com
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18. Nicholas Stfleur

Designation General Assignment Reporter Author Bio Nicholas St. Fleur is a general assignment reporter, associate editorial director of events and host of STAT's health equity podcast, Color Code. He covers the intersection of race, medicine and the life sciences. Nicholas won the 2021 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists and was a winner of the 2023 June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism. He came to STAT as a Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow in 2020. Prior to joining STAT, he was a freelance science journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area covering archaeology, paleontology, space, and other curiosities of the cosmos.... He previously worked for The New York Times and The Atlantic. Nicholas received a B.S. in biology from Cornell University and is a graduate of the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.more
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19. Deborah Balthazar

Designation Reporter Author Bio Deborah Balthazar is the 2023-2024 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow at STAT. Previously, she was a freelance science journalist with bylines in Science News, Science News Explores, and Scholastic Classroom Magazines. Before that, Deborah wrote for three years about the local government in her hometown and surrounding towns in New Jersey for TAPinto.net, a hyperlocal daily online newspaper. She has also worked as a substitute science teacher. Balthazar received a B.A. in biology with minors in English and chemistry from Caldwell University and received a master's degree in science journal...ism from the Science, Health & Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP) at New York University. In her free time, she enjoys crocheting and reading webcomics.more
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20. Jessica Bartlett

Designation Author Author Bio I'm a medical reporter for @BostonGlobe. Got something to say? Let me know about it.
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21. Jonathan Wosen

Designation Life Sciences Reporter Author Bio Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter, based in his hometown of San Diego. Prior to joining STAT in 2022, he was the biotech reporter for the San Diego Union-Tribune, and he’s previously interned for the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Knowable magazine, and STAT, among other places. Jonathan holds a doctorate in immunology from Stanford and a master’s in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Yes, that is a lot of school. In his spare time, he enjoys jogging and following all things NBA-related.
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22. Tara Bannow

Designation Reporter Author Bio Tara Bannow is a hospitals and insurance reporter at STAT. She came to STAT in 2022 from Modern Healthcare magazine, where she was a senior reporter covering hospital finance. There, she wrote about subjects like unscrupulous medical debt collection and private equity’s health care investments. She’s also written for newspapers in Oregon and Iowa. Tara earned her journalism degree from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She lives in Minneapolis.
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23. Brittany Trang

Designation Reporter Author Bio Brittany Trang is a business of health care reporter at STAT. Previously, she was a 2022-2023 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow. Before joining STAT Brittany has covered health and science at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Mass Media Fellow. Brittany has an undergraduate degree in chemistry and English from the Ohio State University and a chemistry Ph.D. from Northwestern University, where she developed PFAS remediation methods.
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24. Damian Garde

Designation National Biotech Reporter Author Bio Damian Garde is a national biotech reporter for STAT, based in New York. He co-writes The Readout newsletter and co-hosts "The Readout LOUD" podcast. Prior to joining STAT in 2016, he spent four years covering drug development at FierceBiotech, and previously wrote for Patch.com and the Albuquerque Journal. Damian spends his free time watching movies and shouting at the New York Knicks through screens of various sizes.
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25. Angus Chen

Designation Reporter Author Bio Angus Chen is a cancer reporter at STAT. He was previously a reporter at WBUR and NPR, covering health and science. His work has also appeared in Scientific American, Hidden Brain, 99% Invisible, and other publications and podcasts. Before journalism, Angus was a geology research grunt where his primary job was smashing rocks with a very large hammer. He lives in Oakland, Calif., and enjoys surfing at gnarly Ocean Beach, San Francisco.
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26. Catherine Carlock — Boston Globe

Designation Contributor Author Bio That's Carlock, like you lock your car. @BostonGlobe real estate reporter. Formerly @bosbizcre. Watcher of cranes, sayer of y'all. ????️
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27. Karen Pennar

Designation Editor Author Bio Karen Pennar is the night news editor at STAT. Previously she was the editor of Voices of NY, a website at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. Karen has worked in health care research, written plays, and was an editor at BusinessWeek magazine for nearly two decades. She has a master’s degree in public health from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Barnard College.
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28. Hyacinth Empinado

Designation Special Projects Editor Author Bio Hyacinth Empinado is the special projects editor for STAT's multimedia team. She’s also the senior producer of "The Readout LOUD" podcast. A biology graduate, Hyacinth worked as a lab technician before receiving her master’s degree in health and medical journalism from the University of Georgia, where she filmed videos about malaria research in Ghana and interned at WUGA-TV. In 2018, she won a Mass Creator Award and earned a Webby nomination. Hyacinth enjoys watching sitcoms and collecting rainbow-colored things.
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29. Mohana Ravindranath

Designation Correspondent Author Bio Mohana Ravindranath is a Bay Area correspondent covering health tech at STAT and has made it her mission to separate out hype from reality in health care. She is also a co-author of the twice-weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. She previously covered health tech for Business Insider and POLITICO, and other business and tech topics for Nextgov and the Washington Post before that. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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30. Mario Aguilar

Designation Correspondent Author Bio Mario Aguilar is a health tech correspondent at STAT. He is also a co-author of the twice-weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. Previously he worked at Gizmodo, Protocol, CNN Business, and Wired. He lives in New York.
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31. John Wilkerso

Designation Washington Correspondent Author Bio John Wilkerson is a Washington correspondent for STAT who writes about the politics of health care. He has extensively covered policies that impact prescription drug prices, and for more than 20 years he has reported on how health care is paid for and regulated. Previously, he worked at Inside Health Policy, the Associated Press, and the St. Louis Business Journal.
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32. Usha Lee Mcfarling

Designation Correspondent Author Bio Usha Lee McFarling is a national science correspondent for STAT, covering the toll of Covid-19 as well as people and trends behind biomedical advances in the western U.S. She previously reported for the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau, and the San Antonio Light, where she covered killer bees, bat rabies outbreaks, and cases of leprosy linked to armadillo taxidermy. Her work on the diseased state of the world's oceans earned the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. Usha graduated from Brown University with a degree in biology and later earned a master...'s degree at UC Berkeley after spending years studying the behavior of desert woodrats. She was also previously an artist-in-residence at the University of Washington.more
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33. Andrew Joseph

Designation Chicago-based National Correspondent Author Bio Andrew is STAT's Europe correspondent, based in London. Before moving to the U.K. in 2023, he worked as a general assignment reporter in STAT's Boston headquarters, starting with its launch in 2015. He was part of the STAT team that was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for early coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. Prior to STAT, Andrew worked at the San Antonio Express-News and San Francisco Chronicle. He graduated from Dartmouth College and has covered everything from crime to health policy.
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34. Sarah Owermohle

Designation Correspondent Author Bio Sarah Owermohle is a Washington correspondent at STAT, reporting on the Biden administration’s health goals, federal health policy and politics. She previously covered health policy and the drug industry for POLITICO and S&P Global Market Intelligence. Before returning to her home state of Virginia, Sarah spent five years in Dubai and Beirut reporting on business, finance, and development in the Middle East and Africa, including a three-year stint as the editor of Banker Africa. She graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.
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35. Casey Ross

Designation Correspondent Author Bio Casey Ross is a national technology correspondent at STAT. His reporting examines the use of artificial intelligence in medicine and its underlying questions of safety, fairness, and privacy. Before joining STAT in 2016, he wrote for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Boston Globe, where he worked on the Spotlight Team in 2014 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A Vermont native, he now lives in Ohio with his wife and three children. When he's not with them, he's in his cornfield, cultivating some of the sweetest bi-color in the Midwest.
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36. Rachel Cohrs

Designation Washington Correspondent Author Bio Rachel Cohrs is a Washington correspondent for STAT, reporting on the intersection of politics, business, and health policy. She is also the author of the twice-weekly D.C. Diagnosis newsletter. She previously covered health care policy for Modern Healthcare and prescription drug pricing for Inside Health Policy. Rachel earned a degree in journalism from the University of Southern California.
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37. Katie Palmer

Designation Correspondent Author Bio Katie Palmer is a health tech correspondent at STAT. She previously led health and science coverage as a senior editor at Wired and as an editor at Quartz. In 2018, she was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, where she investigated conflict of interest nondisclosure in research using computer-assisted reporting. She is based in western Massachusetts.
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38. Jeffrey A. Singer

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39. Richard J. Tofel

Designation Contributor Author Bio Richard J. Tofel, the former president of ProPublica, is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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40. Paul J. Hauptman

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41. Jonathan Wolfson

Designation Contributor Author Bio Jonathan Wolfson is the chief legal officer and policy director at the Cicero Institute.
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42. Peter D. Kramer

Designation Contributor Author Bio Author of Listening to Prozac, Ordinarily Well, Against Depression, &tc. Latest: **Death of the Great Man: A Novel** @peterdkramer.bsky.social https://peterdkramer.com/
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43. Lucy Foulkes

Designation Contributor Author Bio Lucy Foulkes, Ph.D., is an academic psychologist at the University of Oxford, U.K. Her first book, “Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness,” was published in the U.S in 2021.
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44. Gloria Coronado

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45. Leslie Bienen

Designation Contributor Author Bio public health matters; harm reduction over zero covid; reading fiction is important; views are my own. https://lesliebienen.substack.com/?utm_source=navbar&utm_m
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46. H Conley

Designation Contributor Author Bio H Conley is a New York-based science and health journalist and audio maker. Their work has appeared in Bon Appétit, Edible Manhattan, City Limits, the Embodied Podcast from WUNC, and Meat and Three from HRN.
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47. Richard Hughes Iv

Designation Contributor Author Bio Richard Hughes IV is a partner with Epstein Becker Green and a professorial lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School. He served as vice president of public policy at Moderna during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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48. Kerry Dooley Young

Designation Contributor Author Bio Kerry Dooley Young is a freelance journalist in Washington, D.C. who has been covering Medicare since 2006.
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49. Gideon Meyerowitz-katz

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50. Kimberly M. Baker

Designation Contributor Author Bio Kimberly M. Baker is an associate professor of biology at the University of Indianapolis and a visiting scholar of pharmacology & toxicology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. She is a public voices fellow with The OpEd Project.
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51. Shira Fischer

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52. Tiffany Cornwall

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53. Christopher Medrano

Designation Contributor Author Bio Christopher Medrano, M.D., is a family medicine resident physician in Chicago.
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54. Richard Joseph

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55. Aaron Birnbaum

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56. Matthew Makansi

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57. Vineet Aro

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58. Adam Shyevitch

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59. David Michaels

Designation Contributor Author Bio David Michaels is a professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. He was assistant secretary of labor for OSHA from 2009 to 2017, and is the author of “The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception” (Oxford University Press, January 2020).
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60. Mitchell Berger

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61. Tara Rynders

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62. Meredithe Mcnamara

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63. Neeraj Sood

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64. Jagpreet Chhatwal

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65. Craig Spencer

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66. Charles K. Fisher

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67. Sammer Marzouk

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68. Rachel Layne

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69. Saskia Popescu

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70. Jason Karlawish

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71. Peter Grinspoon

Designation Contributor Author Bio Peter Grinspoon, M.D., is a primary care physician and a cannabis specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of the new book “Seeing Through the Smoke: A Cannabis Expert Untangles the Truth about Marijuana.”
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72. Abdullahi Tsanni

Designation News Intern Author Bio Abdullahi Tsanni is a news intern at STAT. Abdullahi recently earned a master’s degree in science writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has written extensively for Nature, BMJ, and Popular Science. He was an early-career fellow at The Open Notebook and is passionate about expanding coverage of biomedical research, infectious diseases, and global health issues in Africa. He helped found the nonprofit African Science Literacy Network to connect African scientists with journalists to enhance science communication across Africa.
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73. Megan Molteni

Designation Science Writer Author Bio Megan Molteni is a science writer for STAT, covering genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. Prior to joining STAT, she was a staff writer at WIRED, where she wrote about CRISPR, the rise of big DNA data, and genetic privacy before leading WIRED’s science coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. She has broken stories from inside the gene-editing industry and written extensively about the expansion of invasive new DNA technologies into U.S. law enforcement. Her work has also appeared in Popular Science, Discover, Undark, and Aeon. Megan received a B.A. in biology from Carleton C...ollege and a master's of journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. She is based in Minneapolis.more
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74. Lev Facher

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75. Jeremy C. Fox

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76. Seth Berkley

Designation Author Author Bio Medical doctor specializing in infectious disease epidemiology and global health. Former CEO of @Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance & @IAVI. Co-Founder of @COVAX.
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77. Elsa Pearson Sites

Designation Author Author Bio Health policy for @VeteransHealth + @HarvardChanSPH Words in @NPR, @UpshotNYT, @statnews, @usatoday, @bostonglobe Forever yelling about mergers + bipartisanship
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78. Max Bennett

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79. Ateev Mehrotra

Designation Author Author Bio Physician researcher at Harvard Medical School and RAND
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80. Jonathan Saltzman

Designation Author Author Bio Report at The Boston Globe; covers biotech; former Spotlight Team member; Bob Dylan fan; swimmer
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81. Patrick Skerrett

Author Bio Editor, First Opinion for @STATnews
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82. Wendy Dean

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