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Kate Wells is the Michigan correspondent for KFF Health News. She reports on public health and health policy, with a focus on how national systems and decisions play out in people's daily lives.

Hayat Norimine is a regional editor based in Boise, Idaho, and joined KFF Health News after 10 years in local news. Most recently, she was the accountability editor at the Idaho Statesman, where she oversaw national award-winning projects and collaborations with ProPublica as part of its Local Reporting Network.

Andrew Jones is a rural health correspondent for western North Carolina. Previously, he worked at the non-profit news outlet Asheville Watchdog and at the region's paper of record, Asheville Citizen-Times, focusing on hospitals and health care as an investigative reporter.

Mary-Ellen Deily, partnerships editor, was previously a health and science editor at The Washington Post. Mary-Ellen edited staff and freelance reporters on personal health care and policy at The Post, and in 2024 edited the Health 202/Health Brief newsletter, which regularly published KFF Health News content.

Maia Rosenfeld is a data reporter on the enterprise team at KFF Health News. As a hybrid numbers/news nerd, she uses data analysis to find the people behind statistics and share their stories.

J.J. Evans is a deputy copy chief at KFF Health News. Before joining KFF, he spent 13 years as a multiplatform editor at The Washington Post. That followed stints at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk and smaller newspapers in Illinois and Indiana. He’s a graduate of Franklin College of Indiana, with a degree in journalism.

Claudia Boyd-Barrett is the Southern California Correspondent for KFF Health News. She writes about health care access and affordability issues facing the region’s diverse populations, and local impacts of national health policy changes.

Amanda Seitz is a health policy reporter. From her perch in Washington, she covers how federal regulations, laws and policies impact the health of Americans around the country. Seitz previously worked as the health care policy reporter for The Associated Press.

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.

Jackie Fortiér, Peggy Girshman fellow, covers health policy nationally from her base in California. She’s the newsroom’s first audio-first fellow, a selection that honors Girshman, who was an NPR alum and longtime champion of audio journalism.