Author

Joanne Kenen is the Commonwealth Fund journalist-in-residence at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She was previously the health editor at Politico and has worked for Reuters in New York, Florida and the Caribbean and Washington – mostly covering Congress. As a Kaiser Family Foundation media fellow in 2006-07, she wrote about aging and palliative care. She also wrote about health policy at the nonpartisan New America Foundation.Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic, Kaiser Health News, the Washingtonian, CQ, The Washington Post, the Center for Public Integrity, Health Affairs, National Journal and Slate.