Aneri Pattani

Aneri Pattani, senior correspondent, reports on mental health, suicide, and substance use. Her multiyear series about how state and local governments are spending billions in opioid settlement funds made her a finalist for a Livingston Award and a Scripps Howard Award. It was also featured on an episode of the late-night comedy show Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. Pattani was a 2019 recipient of the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism and now serves on the program’s advisory board. 

She received a bachelor’s in journalism from Northeastern University and a master’s in public health from Johns Hopkins University. As part of her master’s work, she co-authored a free online course to teach journalists how to responsibly report on suicide.