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Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent, hosts the KFF Health News weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” Previously, she spent 16 years as a health policy correspondent for NPR, where she helped lead the network’s coverage of the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third edition. In 2005, she received the…

Renuka Rayasam, senior correspondent, joined KFF Health News in 2022 from Politico, where she wrote for its magazine, covered Texas policy and politics, and helped launch a daily covid-19 briefing called “Nightly.” Previously, she worked for the Austin American-Statesman and U.S. News & World Report. She also freelanced from Berlin for newspapers and magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. She has a master’s in international…

Jordan Rau, senior correspondent, reports on the American health care system’s costs and quality, with a focus on hospitals, nursing homes, doctors, and other types of medical providers. His stories have been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, and dozens of other media outlets. He joined KFF Health News at its founding in 2009 after working for 18 years at daily newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times,…

Rachana Pradhan, senior correspondent, reports on an array of national health policy issues and their effects on everyday Americans. She came to KFF Health News from Politico, where for five years she covered health care policy and politics. Rachana reported on former HHS Secretary Tom Price’s extensive use of private jets at taxpayers’ expense. The investigation, which resulted in Price’s resignation, was a 2018 finalist for the American Society of News Editors’ O’Brien Fellowship Award…

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…

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, correspondent, works for the KFF Health News rural health desk. She covers how policy affects access to health care in rural and Native American communities. Previously, Orozco Rodriguez worked for The Nevada Independent, where she focused on the state's Latino and Native American communities. She completed the Journalism and Women Symposium Health Journalism Fellowship in 2025 and the Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellowship in 2021. Her work has been recognized by the Indigenous…

Hannah Norman, video producer and visual reporter, joined KFF Health News after covering health care for the San Francisco Business Times. Previously, she was a fellow at AtlanticLIVE, The Atlantic’s event branch. Her work has appeared on Al Jazeera, NBC News, CNN, and other national outlets. She graduated from Wesleyan University.

Ngoc Nguyen, ethnic media editor, develops and expands editorial collaborations with ethnic media in California for KFF Health News and California Healthline. She previously worked as an editor and reporter for New America Media, a national nonprofit news service for ethnic media, where she co-directed a health and environmental reporting fellowship program for ethnic-media journalists based in California. She also worked as an environmental reporter for The Sacramento Bee and as an assistant producer for…

Tarena Lofton, distribution editor, was previously the audience engagement producer at KFF Health News. She joined the organization in 2019 as a social media intern and was soon promoted to assistant social media manager. In 2021, she was hired as a strategic communications specialist by a top government relations and strategic communications firm based in Washington but returned to KFF. Lofton holds a master’s degree from Indiana University’s Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and…

Tony Leys, rural editor/correspondent, is based in Iowa City, Iowa. He previously worked 33 years as a reporter and editor for the Des Moines Register, including more than 20 years as the newspaper's lead health care writer. He served four terms as a board member for the Association of Health Care Journalists, and he is an alum of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.