Eli Cahan
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United States
Freelance Journalist and Medical Resident, Boston Children's Hospital
2024-2025
Eli Cahan MD, MS is the Benjamin Von Sternenfels Rosenthal Grantee for Mental Health Investigative Journalism. He is an award-winning investigative journalist covering the intersection of child welfare and social justice. His written work has been featured in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, and USA Today, among other publications. His multimedia work has appeared on TV via ABC and radio via NPR. Cahan’s reporting has won awards from the National Press Club and the News Leaders Association. He has received reporting fellowships from The McGraw Center, The National Press Foundation, and The Dart Center. He has also been a grantee of the Fund for Investigative Journalism and The Pulitzer Center. Cahan is also a pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has published nearly two dozen studies and been featured in NEJM, JAMA, BMJ, and Health Affairs. He is Journalist-in-Residence at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the associate director for the Health Equity Media Fellowship at Stanford School of Medicine, and a health communication advisor for the National Academy of Medicine.