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Research Interests
trust, disinformation, equity, domestic violence, gun violence, social drivers of health, decarbonization of the health care system; media and American health
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Experiences & Accomplishments
Joanne Kenen is an experienced public health and health care journalist who has been the journalist in residence at the Bloomberg School of Public Health since late 2021. She also co-teaches a course about how the changing economic and political media landscape in the United States affects public health. During the decade before she came to the Johns Hopkins University, Kenen was at Politico where she oversaw the prize-winning health reporting team—from the implementation of the ACA through the coronavirus pandemic. Her work has appeared in numerous national publications: Politico and Politico Magazine, KFF Health News, the Washington Post, Stat, the Atlantic, Health Affairs and many other outlets. Kenen has guest lectured at numerous universities and done training for health journalists both through the Association of Health Care Journalist and the USC Center for Health Journalism. She is a regular on KFF's "What the Health" podcast.
Honors & Awards
- Commonwealth Fund, Inaugural Journalist in Residence. 2021-2023.
- Finalist, National Institute of Health Care Management journalism prize for investigative series on veterans’ nursing homes. 2022
- Voices of Leadership Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. First and to date only journalist ever selected as a Menschel Fellow.
- ACEP Magazine Award, American College of Emergency Physicians for Slate Magazine article about palliative care in the Emergency Department. 2011
- National Mental Health Association Magazine Award, Washingtonian article about the suicide of a senator’s son. 2006
- Inter-American Press Association Pedro Beltran Medal. (Staff reporter on the publication that won the public service award.) 1982