SABEW names 16 journalists for health care symposium

Sixteen journalists were selected to attend SABEW’s 2024 Health Care Symposium in Washington, D.C., Oct. 20-22.

Throughout the three-day program, fellows will take a deep dive with experts and veteran reporters into some of the big issues facing U.S. health care, from the growing impact of private equity ownership, to the ways in which blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drugs are widening health disparities, the crisis of rural health care, and the battles ahead on women’s reproductive health.

This year’s Health Care Symposium Fellows are:

1. Noor Adatia, commercial real estate reporter, Dallas Business Journal/ACBJ
2. Emily Brindley, health reporter/business team, Dallas Morning News
3. Annika Kim Constantino, pharmaceutical reporter, CNBC
4. Kristine de Leon, consumer health reporter, The Oregonian/Oregon Live
5. Shannon Firth, Washington correspondent, MedPage Today
6. Elizabeth Hayes, staff reporter, Portland Business Journal
7. Carson Kessler, investigations fellow, The New York Times
8. Sean Kirkby, senior editor, Wisconsin Health News
9. Astrid Landon, freelance journalist
10. Madeline Nguyen, health disparities digital reporter, Arizona PBS— Cronkite News
11. Sarah Owermohle, Washington correspondent, STAT News
12. Maia Pandey, connect reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
13. Rachel Roubein, health care reporter, The Washington Post
14. Helen Santoro, reporter, The Lever
15. Nancy Vu, health care reporter, Bloomberg Government
16. Gwendolyn Wu, reporter, BioPharma Dive

The Health Care Symposium is taking place at the National Press Building Conference Center in Washington, D.C.