{"id":19584,"date":"2019-02-12T11:01:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/khn.wp.alley.ws\/about\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:44:22","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<aside class=\"wp-block-kff-shared-sidebar alignright khn-slab\">\n\t\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kff-shared-heading-divider wp-block-kff-shared-heading-divider--black\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"wp-block-kff-shared-heading-divider__headline\">About KFF Health News<\/h2>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-style-default\">\n<li class=\"has-source-sans-3-font-family has-heading-7-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\/\">About Us<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-source-sans-3-font-family has-heading-7-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/syndication\/\">Republish Our Content<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-source-sans-3-font-family has-heading-7-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/people\/?s=&amp;team=journalism\">Meet the Staff<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-source-sans-3-font-family has-heading-7-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/editorialpolicy\/\">Editorial Policy<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-source-sans-3-font-family has-heading-7-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-source-sans-3-font-family has-heading-7-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/ethics-guidelines\/\">Ethics Guidelines<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-source-sans-3-font-family has-heading-7-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/awards\/\">Awards and Honors<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-source-sans-3-font-family has-heading-7-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/faq\/\">FAQs<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-source-sans-3-font-family has-heading-7-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/contact-us\/\">Contact Us<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-source-sans-3-font-family has-heading-7-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/tips\/\">Send Us a Tip<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-source-sans-3-font-family has-heading-7-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/content-type\/news-release\/?ep_filter_series=kff-health-news-announcements\">Announcements<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-source-sans-3-font-family has-heading-7-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/events\/?ep_filter_series=kff-health-news-events\">Events<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/aside>\n\n\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\" href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with policy analysis and polling, KFF Health News is one of the three major operating programs at <a title=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>. KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KFF Health News reports on how the health care system \u2014 hospitals, doctors, nurses, insurers, governments, consumers \u2014 works. In addition to this website, our stories are published by news organizations throughout the country. Our site also features <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/Email-Subscriptions.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\">daily summaries<\/a> of major health care news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-kff-shared-sidebar alignright \">\n\t\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<\/aside>\n\n\n<p>KFF President and CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/person\/drew-altman\/\">Drew Altman<\/a> is KFF Health News\u2019 executive publisher and wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/presidents-message\/\">this message<\/a> about KFF Health News when we launched in 2009. KFF Executive Director of Media and Technology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/person\/david-rousseau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Rousseau<\/a> is KFF Health News\u2019 publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn about our <a href=\"\/EditorialPolicy.aspx\">editorial policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KFF Health News accepts no advertising and all original content is <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/syndication\/\">available to&nbsp;other news organizations<\/a> and the public free of charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span>Neither KFF Health News nor KFF is affiliated with the health insurance company Kaiser Permanente.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-heading-4-font-size\" id=\"h-kff-health-news-leadership\">KFF Health News Leadership<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default\"><strong>Alex Wayne<\/strong>, Executive Editor, previously worked for Bloomberg News, where he led coverage of the Joe Biden and Donald Trump presidencies and reported on health care policy, including the development of the Affordable Care Act. In 2020, he helped manage and edit articles about the coronavirus\u2019 infiltration of Trump\u2019s White House that won the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. Earlier in his career, Alex reported on health care, immigration, Social Security, and other topics for Congressional Quarterly, and covered local and state government for the News &amp; Record of Greensboro, North Carolina. He started his journalism career in Florida at The Villages Daily Sun, where he reported on local businesses, government, and some pretty wacky crimes. 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Questions about funders or funding policies can be directed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/person\/david-rousseau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Rousseau<\/a>, KFF Health News\u2019 Publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span>External support for KFF Health News includes:&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arnoldventures.org\/\"><span>Arnold Ventures<\/span><\/a><span>: coverage of&nbsp;federal&nbsp;and state health policy,&nbsp;women\u2019s reproductive health care issues,&nbsp;and general operating support.\u202f<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chcf.org\/\"><span>California Health Care Foundation<\/span><\/a><span>: coverage of health policy news in California.\u202f<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calwellness.org\/\"><span>California Wellness Foundation<\/span><\/a><span>:\u00a0support for our\u00a0work with California ethnic media.\u202f<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dogwoodhealthtrust.org\/\"><span>Dogwood Health Trust<\/span><\/a><span>:\u00a0coverage of rural health care issues from western North Carolina.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorisduke.org\/\"><span>Doris Duke Foundation<\/span><\/a><span>:\u00a0coverage of changes in federal health research funding agencies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/\"><span>Gates Foundation<\/span><\/a><span>:&nbsp;support for KFF Health News\u2019&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/topics\/public-health\/\"><span>Healthbeat<\/span><\/a><span>&nbsp;partnership with&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthbeat.org\/\"><span>Civic News Company<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiahealthinitiative.org\/\"><span>Georgia Health Initiative<\/span><\/a><span>: coverage of health care issues in Georgia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.headwatersmt.org\/\"><span>Headwaters Foundation<\/span><\/a><span>: coverage of Montana and other Mountain States.\u202f<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhartfound.org\/\"><span>John A. 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