Céline Gounder
Editor-at-Large for Public Health, KFF Health News; Medical Contributor, CBS News
Céline Gounder is editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News and a CBS News medical contributor. She is best known for coverage of the COVID, Ebola, Zika, opioid overdose, gun violence, and disinformation epidemics. Gounder is a clinical associate professor of medicine and infectious diseases at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine. Among other honors, in 2023 she was named one of New York City and State’s Health Care Power 100, a New York State Woman of Distinction, and a National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Gounder and her podcast production team won the 2023 Edward R. Murrow Award for a podcast by a small digital organization for American Diagnosis S4E5: “Power to Police Perpetrators.”
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