Laura Helmuth is the health, science and environment editor for the Washington Post. She was previously the director of digital news for National Geographic, science and health editor for Slate, science editor for Smithsonian magazine, and a news editor for Science magazine. She is the incoming president of the National Association of Science Writers.

For pitches, she is interested in breaking news, features, and profile ideas from any field of science. Stories that have a politics or policy angle are particularly welcome.