Peggy Girshman is the Executive Editor for online at Kaiser Health News, a nonprofit news service covering health care and health policy. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is a nonpartisan operating foundation based in Washington D.C. KHN publishes stories on its website and partners with major news organizations, including USA Today, The Washington Post, NPR, McClatchy Newspapers, among many others. Peggy worked as a producer for TV stations in Washington DC and New York City and as the senior producer for several PBS series, including Scientific American Frontiers and a 26-part series on statistics. She helped edit science/health news at National Public Radio (NPR), eventually becoming a Managing Editor responsible for "converging" the radio and digital parts of NPR News. She was Senior Medical Producer at Dateline NBC from 1998-2001. She had journalism fellowships, at the Marine Biological Lab and at M.I.T. She is a co-winner of the AAAS science-writing prize and is on the NASW board.

How to Pitch Kaiser Health News:
KHN is interested in stories that illuminate the U.S. health care system, the practice of medicine, hospital
practice, comparative effectiveness and most anything connected to the Affordable Care Act, A.K.A.
Obamacare. We do not cover medical treatments (unless there is an insurance/financial/public policy
angle), public health or global health. Please check out our website before you
pitch: www.kaiserhealthnews.org

Contact information:
peggyg@kff.org