As a California-based reporter for KFF Health News, Christine Mai-Duc will cover healthcare policy and politics in the Golden State. She previously reported for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered housing and state politics, including the state legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom. Her reporting has explored California’s homelessness crisis, attempts to enact single payer healthcare and funding for mental health treatment.

Mai-Duc started her career at the Los Angeles Times, where she covered the 2018 midterms and was part of a team that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.