Health policy and politics
A selection of journos, advocates, researchers and other people who know/talk/write about health policy and politics
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@citizencohn.bsky.social
@sabrinacorlette.bsky.social
Research prof and co-director, Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) at Georgetown University #healthpolicywonk #swimmingobsessed #inagartenfan
@emmawage.bsky.social
Team ACA @ KFF. Senior health policy analyst by day, senior Taylor Swift analyst by night. Build more housing.
@jasonlschwartz.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Health Policy and the History of Medicine, Yale School of Public Health. Vaccine policy, health policy-making, pharmaceuticals, FDA/CDC, etc. http://jschwartz.yale.edu
@christinasho.bsky.social
law professor, former House and Senate staffer, ex Clinton White House, etc. Health policy and ballet are both embodiment practices. Book: https://tinyurl.com/Normalizing-Right-to-Health
@drkavitapatel.bsky.social
Stanford University Faculty, Venture Partner New Enterprise Associates NBC Medical Contributor and Obama Policy Alum
@greggbloche.bsky.social
Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Health Law, Policy, & Ethics, Georgetown Law. Revelations & perspective on medicine's uses & abuses, health care disparities, 💰 in the health sphere.
@danweissmann.bsky.social
Reporter. I make An Arm and a Leg— a show about why health care costs so freaking much, and what we can maybe do about it. Distributed by @kuow.org www.armandalegshow.com
@drewsnews.bsky.social
Endpoints News executive editor -- where the business of medicine gets answers. Posts on biotech, pharma, drugs, financial markets science and business (and how they all intersect). #biosky Priors: Bloomberg News + the Covid vaccine tracker. CQ.
@maya-goldman.bsky.social
Axios health care reporter maya.goldman@axios.com Signal: mayagold.57 or 646-820-5874
@lmnichols.bsky.social
Health economist, SDOH financing focus, New Orleans resident, fan of St.Louis Cardinals and New Orleans Saints.
@rachelcohrs.bsky.social
@meganmesserly.bsky.social
politico white house reporter | proud alum of the nevada independent | uc berkeley grad | california born + raised | home still means nevada
@krutika.bsky.social
Health policy at KFF. Health economics PhD. That person in your feed cross-posting on multiple platforms 🤷🏽♀️ #healthpolicy #healthecon https://www.kff.org/person/krutika-amin/
@egolberstein.bsky.social
Health policy and economics. Some Prince, some Minnesota. Opinions my own.
@jasonlevitis.bsky.social
Health and tax policy and law, private insurance, Marketplaces, 1332 waivers, admin burdens. Led ACA implementation at Treasury. Now Urban Institute, SHVS, and Yale Solomon Center.
@rockcreekpolicy.bsky.social
Health care policy nerd; faculty @USCPrice, Snr. Advisor @ManattHealth, principal rockcreekpolicy. Health care is 2 words.
@thehowie.bsky.social
Physician, Professor, Melancholic Optimist 🏳️🌈 (Health Policy, Health Economics, Finance, Politics, Public Health, Radiology) New Haven, CT Co-Host, Health & Veritas Podcast: https://insights.som.yale.edu/podcasts/health-veritas
@jsgatnyt.bsky.social
Biz investigations reporter @nytimes.com. Send tips! Signal: 347-843-9767, Jessica.silvergreenberg@nytimes.com
@berkeleyjr.bsky.social
💊 🏛️ NBC News Medical Reporter covering health policy, drugs & federal agencies • DM for Signal | IG: @BerkeleyJr www.nbcnews.com/author/berkeley-lovelace-jr-ncpn1284341
@zekeemanuel.bsky.social
World leader in health policy, widely cited bioethicist, UPenn provost and professor, and oncologist. Latest book: "Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?"
@owermohle.bsky.social
Reporter at STAT News writing about health policy, politics and Washington D.C. Signal: sarah_owermohle.07
@sartiga.bsky.social
VP and Director, Racial Equity and Health Policy, @KFF.org #Healthpolicy analysis focused on racial health disparities and immigrant health and well-being
@jcubanski.bsky.social
Medicare expert. Deputy Director, Program on Medicare Policy @KFF. Part D, prescription drug policy, Medicare spending & financing, cyclist, NYT spelling bee fanatic.
@drishp.bsky.social
Associate Director, Racial Equity & Health Policy; Director, Immigrant Health Policy @KFF.org PhD from George Washington University MPH from Emory University BS from The Ohio State University
@drjoshs.bsky.social
Posting on public health topics … some interesting photos if I manage to take them … & occasionally the Baltimore Orioles.
@askellyphd.bsky.social
Associate Prof. of Public Health at CSU East Bay. Political Scientist studying and teaching health policy. Editorial Board Member/Book Review Editor at the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Go O’s.
@alekagurel.bsky.social
Director of government affairs at HealthSherpa. ACA nerd. She/her, views my own.
@karagavin.bsky.social
Science/medical writer & media relations for University of Michigan (Michigan Medicine/Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation) focusing on #primarycare, #mentalhealth, aging & #healthpolicy Mom, wife, baker, French horn player, AAAS Fellow, J! bronze
@ewburak.bsky.social
Research faculty, maternal and early childhood health policy Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF) based at the McCourt School of Public Policy. Medicaid/CHIP policy + interesting (to me) miscellany.
@amgasteier.bsky.social
Mama & Massachusettsian who loves the ACA, state-based insurance marketplaces, good public policy, cooking, loud music, and dogs. Views are my own.
@ruthielizabeth.bsky.social
#HealthPolicy staffer at U.S. Senate @umich and @illinois alum. Opinions my own.
@laurapackard.com
Founder @healthcarevoices.org @voicesofhealthcare.org, Exec Dir Health Care Voter, Principal PowerThru LLC, host weekly streaming health care call-in show & podcast #CareTalk, #CancerSurvivor, Speaking Inquiries @collectivespeakers.bsky.social, she/her
@haroldpollack.bsky.social
University of Chicago Professor. Posts are my own. Reposts do not imply endorsements. Oh--Pay your credit card off in full every month. That's the best risk-free,-tax-free investment available on Planet Earth.
@bradfowd1.bsky.social
Health economist. Editor-in-Chief at Health Economics. Professor at the University of Georgia - which really wants me to clarify these are my opinions and not those of UGA. https://spia.uga.edu/faculty-member/w-david-bradford
@aorris.bsky.social
Senior Fellow @centeronbudget focusing on Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. Previously CMS and OMB/OIRA. She/her
@ipersist.bsky.social
Health insurance, disability equity, pain policy. I will not sit quietly while they try to take health care and health research away from us. Never share a screenshot of text w/out the entire text in alt text so it's actually accessible.
@chrisfriesern.bsky.social
Posts, etc. are personal views & mine alone. No DMs unless we are acquainted, thanks
@rgourevitch.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management at University of Maryland, College Park
@dmaanderson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Health Services, Policy & Management @ University of South Carolina. I study health insurance with a specific focus on the ACA individual market. Was @bjdickmayhew on Twitter All opinions are only mine
@mcbridetd.bsky.social
Professor, Washington University in St. Louis Co-Director Center for Advancing Health Services Policy and Economics Research. https://source.washu.edu/experts/timothy-mcbride/ Substack: @timothymcbride Views my own.
@asacarny.bsky.social
Associate Professor @columbiahpm.bsky.social. Also @nber.org & @j-pal.bsky.social. Economics & health policy. #econsky #healthpolicy #medsky 📈🚞🐈🗽🏳️🌈 http://sacarny.com Posts represent my views, not my employer's
@xpostfactoid.bsky.social
Blogging mostly healthcare policy at http://xpostfactoid.substack.com. ACA implementation watcher. CSR czar. AKA Andrew Sprung.
@johngraves.bsky.social
Professor of Health Policy and Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Professor of Management, Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management
@joanalker1.bsky.social
ED of Georgetown Center for Children and Families and Research Professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy; post mostly about Medicaid, CHIP and such... Visit our website at ccf.georgetown.edu
@emily-gee.bsky.social
SVP for Inclusive Growth at the Center for American Progress. Econ and health policy wonk. HHS and Obama CEA alum. Double-Washingtonian. Private account, opinions my own.
@awright2care.bsky.social
Executive Director, Families USA. Longtime health care consumer advocate working to make health care & coverage more accessible and affordable, and for health & economic security & justice, for all. Views my own. Go Yankees, Kings, Mammoths, and Sagehens.
@tricia-neuman.bsky.social
Senior Vice President, KFF and Executive Director, Program on Medicare Policy
@reedabelson.bsky.social
Health care reporter for NYTimes — following money and misdeeds in medicine. Very fond of dogs, old movies and mysteries. Give me a shout at abelson@nytimes.com.
@erictopol.bsky.social
physician-scientist, author, editor https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/ Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
@sarahl202.bsky.social
VP for Health Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. DSM native and @WSJ alumna. Views expressed here are mine. she/her
@sararcollins.bsky.social
Senior Scholar, Health Care Coverage and Access and Tracking Health System Performance at the Commonwealth Fund commonwealthfund.org.
@heatherhhoward.bsky.social
I study and teach health policy @Princeton. Still figuring this site out.
@starrprospect.bsky.social
Sociologist, Princeton University; co-founder, The American Prospect; author of books on history of American medicine; media; liberalism. Forthcoming: American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now.
@ashishkjha.bsky.social
Physician, Researcher, Advocate for the notion that an ounce of evidence is worth a pound of opinion. @brownpublichealth.bsky.social My views are solely my own (who else would want them??)
@oberlanderunc.bsky.social
UNC-Chapel Hill professor in Social Medicine and Health Policy & Management, Editor of Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, 80s music fanatic
@robinr.bsky.social
VP / Director of the Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured @KFF.org researching #HealthPolicy with a focus on all things related to #Medicaid
@prof-heidiallen.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Columbia University, ❤️ Medicaid and all things health policy
@jenkatesdc.bsky.social
Senior VP/Director, Global Health & HIV Policy, @kff.org. Health policy, epidemics, data, & parenting. NYC born & raised, DC is now home.
@mattafiedler.bsky.social
Senior Fellow, Center on Health Policy, The Brookings Institution. Former Chief Economist for Council of Economic Advisers.
@jennifernuzzo.bsky.social
Epidemiology and global health security policy. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-nuzzo-0972414/
@awgaffney.bsky.social
Pulmonary & ICU doctor, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, past president PNHP, author "To Heal Humankind", dabbler, tweets my own. Webpage: https://dradamgaffney.com/ Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KChlDTsAAAAJ&hl
@assumenormality.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Health Policy at Vanderbilt w/ expertise in access to care, Medicaid, Veterans' health. Formerly Boston University, Department of Defense, US Army (CIV). Views are my own. #HealthEconomics #PublicHealth
@emmasandoe.bsky.social
Medicaid. Oregon now. North Carolina recently. Massachusetts and DC before. California native. Salad lover. Cheese fan (joke and food variety).
@dgorenstein.bsky.social
Founder & Executive Editor @Tradeoffs. Former health care reporter @Marketplace Philly. tradeoffs.org Tips: dgorenstein@tradeoffs.org
@yfeyman.bsky.social
A mild mannered health economist doing health services research. My opinions =\= my employer's. Zionist. 🇮🇱
@commonwealthfund.org
Affordable, quality health care. For everyone. About Us: https://buff.ly/3PTPkDt
@judygraham.bsky.social
Investigative reporter, national correspondent, columnist. Interested in all things having to do with the healthcare system. And aging. Knitter, potter, hiker, daily cook. Chicago-born. Now a Rocky Mountain gal.
@davidmcutler.bsky.social
Economist, health policy researcher, occasional troublemaker. All postings my own.
@louisenorris.bsky.social
Health policy analyst. Health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, health care reform. I write for healthinsurance.org, medicareresources.org, Verywell.com, and healthinsurancecolorado.net. She/Her
@lorenadler.bsky.social
Fellow and Associate Director, Brookings Institution Center on Health Policy | mostly health econ, occasionally budgets or Knicks
@dusetzinas.bsky.social
Health services researcher at Vanderbilt Health Policy. Avid coffee drinker, investigator of drug policies & prices. RT not an endorsement. Opinions are mine.
@josephzeballos.bsky.social
Economic policy reporter in DC | Past: Semafor, Business Insider | Concert enthusiast | josephzeballos@gmail.com
@sarahgollust.bsky.social
Prof @ U Minnesota School of Public Health; studies media & politics & health policy & public opinion; teaches ethics & health policy. Member of Collaborative on Media & Messaging for Health & Social Policy (@commhsp.bsky.social). Wesleyan & UMich alum.
@adamcancryn.bsky.social
White House reporter at POLITICO. I write about the politics, policy and people shaping Trump’s health and domestic agenda. Tell me what you’re hearing and seeing—my Signal username is cancryn.01
@rachelsachs.bsky.social
Law professor. Researching and writing about innovation and access to new healthcare technologies, mostly in health law, FDA law, and patent law.
@edwincpark.bsky.social
Health policy especially Medicaid, CHIP and the Affordable Care Act. Research Professor at the Center for Children and Families (CCF) at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. ccf.georgetown.edu
@aawayne.bsky.social
Executive Editor, KFF Health News Read and republish everything we do for $0: https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us/ Florida man | Never cruise *I do not respond to most PR pitches* AlexW@kff.org
@dariustahir.bsky.social
health tech journo at KFF Health News. do people really read the bios, if they're not of Civil War generals?
@sangerkatz.bsky.social
Covering health care at @nytimes.com. Enjoy metaphors. Dislike mixed metaphors. Reach me on Signal: sangerkatz.01
@celinegounder.com
MEDICINE / INFECTIOUS DISEASES / EPIDEMIOLOGY / JOURNALISM 🔹 Senior Fellow & Editor-at-Large for Public Health at @KFFhealthnews.bsky.social 🔹 Medical Contributor for CBS News 🔹 Prof/Doc at NYU Grossman School of Medicine & Bellevue Hospital
@lizszabo.bsky.social
She/her. Award-winning independent health journalist covering medical news for The New York Times, NBC News, Scientific American, AARP and others. Loves dogs and cats.
@sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social
Journalist covering intersection of pharma, health policy & politics for the Pink Sheet. On Signal at SarahKarlinSmith.34 KFF Health News’ ‘What The Health?’ panelist. Co-created Prescription PULSE at Politico. GWU alum, dabbled in SMPA adjunct-ness.
@kffhealthnews.org
A national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues; a core program of @KFF.org. Also publishes California Healthline.
@bobjherman.bsky.social
Health care business reporter for @statnews.com and its Health Care Inc. newsletter. Contact: bob.herman@statnews.com or bobjherman.09 on Signal. Sign up: https://www.statnews.com/signup/health-care-inc/
@shefali.bsky.social
Reproductive health @19thnews.bsky.social. I wrote UNDUE BURDEN, a book about abortion in post-Dobbs America. Past lives: KHN, The Texas Tribune. Julien Baker + Boston Celtics enthusiast. She / Her. sbluthra(at)19thnews(dot)org; Signal: shefaliluthra.94
@scottgottliebmd.bsky.social
Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Partner, New Enterprise Associates. Contributor CNBC. 23rd Commissioner of the U.S. FDA. Public boards: Pfizer, Illumina, TempusAI.
@jacobhacker.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science; co-director, Ludwig Program on Public Leadership, Yale Law School; co-leader, Consortium on American Political Economy (CAPE); director, Yale American Political Economy eXchange (APEX); jacobhacker.com
@matthewherper.bsky.social
I write about medicine at STAT. This is biology's century. Every data point has a face.
@julierovner.bsky.social
Chief Washington Correspondent KFF Health News, Host "What the Health?" podcast/horseperson/corgimomx2/unapologetic Michigan fan.
@petermorley.bsky.social
Patient Advocate (morethanmySLE from Twitter) *Disability & Chronic Illness Activist. *♿️, Cancer Survivor & #Lupus Warrior. *Testified 3x for Congress. *Anjelika is my #servicedog YouTube Congress Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@petermorley_sle/videos
@alikodjak.bsky.social
Assistant Managing Editor @ProPublica. Former @NPR, @APNews, @Business. Past President of the National Press Club. Your news tips welcome here!
@adrianna.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Politics. I study strategies to improve health insurance coverage and the politics of health reform. she/her/Michigander https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcintyre
@adamfeuerstein.bsky.social
Reporter at STAT. The Harry Kane of biotech. Dog ❤️er. Polk Award winner. Said one analyst: The likes of Adam Feuerstein attack viciously.
@dylanlscott.bsky.social
Senior correspondent and editor at Vox. All good things in all good time. Tips/pitches: dylan.scott@vox.com.
@meganranney.bsky.social
Emergency physician & Dean of the Yale School of Public Health. Gun violence prevention researcher. Incorrigible optimist (because we can and do create change, together). Mom of two teens. GO BILLS. @meganranney at the other place 🛟🩺📉📈🧪
@benjysarlin.bsky.social
Assignment editor at Washington Post Opinion desk. Send pitches, feedback, etc to Benjy.Sarlin@washpost.com.