Fifteen journalists were selected for SABEW’s 2026 Health Care Symposium in Washington, D.C., March 19-21.
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 crisis of rural health care, and the changing landscape of medical debt and consumer protection.
This year’s Health Care Symposium fellows are:
- Josh Archote, health reporter, San Antonio Report
- Hilary Brueck, health correspondent, Business Insider
- Andrea Galliano, freelance
- Sarah Gantz, health care reporter, The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Sally Ho, reporter, The Associated Press,
- Simmerdeep Kaur, federal policy reporter, Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
- Jeremy Olson, medical reporter, Star Tribune
- Maaisha Osman, health policy reporter, Inside Health Policy
- McKenna Oxenden, freelance
- Nyah Phengsitthy, health reporter, Bloomberg Law
- Nikki Ross, health care and technology reporter, Nashville Business Journal
- Hilke Schellmann, associate professor of journalism, NYU
- Anastasia Valeeva, data reporter, Newsday
- Victoria Vesovski, staff reporter, Moneywise
- Frank Vinluan, senior biopharma reporter, MedCity News
The Health Care Symposium will take place in Washington, D.C.