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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.

Stephanie Armour, senior health policy correspondent, has reported on the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Medicare, covid-19, abortion, and how politics and regulations in Washington, D.C., affect patients, providers, and the health care industry.

Amy Maxmen, national public health correspondent, covers efforts to prevent disease and improve well-being outside of the medical system, and the obstacles that stand in the way. Before joining KFF Health News in 2024, she was a senior reporter at Nature covering health inequities, global health, infectious diseases, and genomics.

Alex Wayne is executive editor of KFF Health News. He previously worked for Bloomberg News, where he led coverage of the Joe Biden and Donald Trump presidencies and reported on health care policy, including the development of the Affordable Care Act.