Sources, 2024
December 30, 2024
There is an enormous amount of excellent health and health policy reporting in the US. Here are some of the sources I’ve relied on during 2024.
Written journalism
● KFF Health News (formerly Kaiser Family Foundation) provides excellent overall reporting, and their stories are often printed in the Washington Post or USA Today.
● Commonwealth Fund, which does especially good reporting on health equity and global health
● Health Affairs, which offers its Forefront (blog) articles without a paywall.
● StatNews, an affiliate of the Boston Globe, which focuses on biotech and pharmacy. Many of the excellent articles, especially on pharmaceutical companies, are behind a paywall.
● JAMA Network, which offers a weekly email that gives free access to the most-read articles of the previous week. JAMA Health Forum and JAMA Network Open have no paywalls
● CIDRAP, the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy of the University of Minnesota. I learned to love this during the pandemic - they offer a daily newsletter with excellent links.
● Propublica, a nonprofit news service, does excellent reporting especially around access to reproductive health care. Seven of its ten most read stories this year were related to health care.
Podcasts:
● What the Health (KFF Health News)
● Tradeoffs (University of Pennsylvania)
● The Dose (Commonwealth Fund)
● Listening In (Catalyze Payment Reform)
● An Arm and a Leg (KFF Health News)
Substack Newsletters
(All have free subscriptions with an option to pay)
● Ground Truths (Eric Topol, genetics and medical futurism)
● Inside Medicine (Jeremy Faust, variety of clinical and health policy topics)
● Your Local Epidemiologist (Katelyn Jetelina)
● Force of Infection (Caitlin Rivers) I just finished her new book Crisis Averted, which I highly recommend.
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