Joanne Kenen is executive editor of health care at POLITICO, where since 2011 she has led an expansion of its health coverage while also contributing to the POLITICO Agenda policy magazine. Kenen covered health for Reuters on Capitol Hill for more than a decade and wrote about end of life during a Kaiser Family Foundation fellowship in 2007. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Slate, Kaiser Health News, and Health Affairs, among others. A regular panelist on KHN’s “What the Health” podcast, she has been a radio and TV commentator, a frequent speaker and moderator, and a Fellow at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.
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