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Aneri Pattani, senior correspondent, reports on a range of public health topics, focusing on mental health and substance use disorders. Her work has received national recognition, including a 2021 award from the Institute for Nonprofit News for reporting on the flawed oversight of addiction treatment facilities in Pennsylvania.
Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, correspondent, works for the KFF Health News rural health desk and is based in Elko, Nevada. She explores how health issues such as food security, climate change, and agricultural practices affect rural areas. Previously, Jazmin worked for The Nevada Independent, where she focused on the state’s Latino and Native American communities.
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.
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.
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