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4 ways to diversify your beat as a freelance health journalist

Association of Health Care Journalists

At that point, I’d had at least a dozen years of experience translating complex medical topics for both highly educated health professionals (including graduates of the George Washington University’s medical and public health schools and Ph.D.-level Long story short: No.

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Make America Healthy Again: An Unconventional Movement That May Have Found Its Moment

KFF Health News

Within days of Donald Trump’s election victory, health care entrepreneur Calley Means turned to social media to crowdsource advice. Means is among a cadre of health business leaders and nonmainstream doctors who are influencing President Donald Trump’s focus on health policy.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Public Health and the Dairy Cow in the Room

KFF Health News

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” As a result, public health is closely tied to things like the environment, nutrition, and safety.