Sixteen journalists were selected for SABEW’s 2024 Health Care Symposium in Washington, D.C., October 20-22. Throughout the three-day program, fellows will take a deep dive with experts and veteran reporters into some of the big issues facing U.S. health care, from the growing impact of private equity ownership, to the ways in which blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drugs are widening health disparities, the crisis of rural health care, and the battles ahead on women’s reproductive health.
This year’s Health Care Symposium Fellows are:
- Noor Adatia, commercial real estate reporter, Dallas Business Journal/ACBJ
- Emily Brindley, health reporter/business team, Dallas Morning News
- Annika Kim Constantino, pharmaceutical reporter, CNBC
- Kristine de Leon, consumer health reporter, The Oregonian/Oregon Live
- Shannon Firth, Washington correspondent, MedPage Today
- Elizabeth Hayes, staff reporter, Portland Business Journal
- Carson Kessler, investigations fellow, The New York Times
- Sean Kirkby, senior editor, Wisconsin Health News
- Astrid Landon, freelance journalist
- Madeline Nguyen, health disparities digital reporter, Arizona PBS— Cronkite News
- Sarah Owermohle, Washington correspondent, STAT News
- Maia Pandey, connect reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Rachel Roubein, health care reporter, The Washington Post
- Helen Santoro, reporter, The Lever
- Nancy Vu, health care reporter, Bloomberg Government
- Gwendolyn Wu, reporter, BioPharma Dive
The Health Care Symposium will take place at the National Press Building Conference Center in Washington, D.C.
The symposium will include speakers from:
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- KFF Health News
- The Commonwealth Fund
- The New York Times
- The Washington Post
The Health Care Symposium is part of a grant from The Commonwealth Fund to SABEW to educate journalists on health care issues. The Commonwealth Fund is a national, private foundation based in New York City that supports independent research on health care issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy.
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