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KFF designs, conducts and analyzes original public opinion and survey research on Americans’ attitudes, knowledge, and experiences with the health care system to help amplify the public’s voice in major national debates.
KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the organization’s core operating programs.
Tarena Lofton, audience engagement producer, leads content creation for daily health care and health policy stories at KFF Health News, and promotes that content across social platforms. She joined the organization in 2019 as a social media intern and was soon promoted to assistant social media manager.
Tony Leys, rural editor/correspondent, is based in Des Moines, where he worked 33 years as a reporter and editor for the Des Moines Register. Tony was the Register’s lead health care reporter for more than 20 years and served four terms as a board member for the Association of Health Care Journalists.
Noam N. Levey, senior correspondent, joined KFF Health News in 2021 after 17 years at the Los Angeles Times, the last 12 as the paper’s national health care reporter based in Washington, D.C.
Brett Kelman, correspondent, joined KFF Health News after 15 years of reporting at three newspapers in the USA Today Network. Most recently he covered health care, the opioid crisis, and the coronavirus pandemic for The Tennessean in Nashville.
Emmarie Huetteman, senior editor, oversees a team of Washington reporters, as well as KFF Health News-NPR’s “Bill of the Month” feature and KFF Health News’ weekly podcast, “What the Health?” She previously spent more than a decade reporting on the federal government, most recently covering surprise medical bills, drug pricing reform, and other health policy…
Katheryn Houghton, Montana correspondent, covers health policy and politics, access to treatment, and the business of health care in that state. Previously, she reported on health care issues for newspapers including the Bozeman Daily Chronicle and the Daily Inter Lake. Katheryn was an Association of Health Care Journalists fellow.
Angela Hart, senior correspondent, covers health care politics and policy in California and the West, with a focus on California Gov. Gavin Newsom, government accountability, and political influence. She has been reporting on health care for more than five years, and has won awards for her work on homelessness, public health, and the covid-19 pandemic.
Holly K. Hacker, data editor, previously was an investigative reporter at The Dallas Morning News, writing stories and analyzing data about health care, housing, education, politics, and business. She also spent many years covering education there, as well as for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Ventura County Star in California.
Phil Galewitz, senior correspondent, covers Medicaid, Medicare, long-term care, hospitals, and various state health issues. He has covered health for more than three decades. He is a former board member of the Association of Health Care Journalists. As a Kaiser Media Fellow in 2004-05, he wrote about community solutions for the uninsured.
Fred Clasen-Kelly, senior correspondent, reports on the South from his base in Charlotte, North Carolina. Previously, he wrote about housing, racial inequality, and social justice in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia for the USA Today Network and was a member of The Charlotte Observer’s investigation team.
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