Jess Mador is WABE’s Health Reporter, following public-health policy and health disparities and exploring their impacts on Atlanta. Her stories can also be found at NPR News and KFF Health News through a partnership with NPR and local stations. Her award-winning journalism has taken her around the country, to stations including Minnesota Public Radio in the Twin Cities, Knoxville’s WUOT, where she produced TruckBeat for AIR’s Localore, to WYSO in Ohio and GPB in Atlanta. Mador’s contributed to West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s Inside Appalachia show. She’s reported for news outlet 100 Days in Appalachia on opioids in East Tennessee. And worked in film and PBS television, including for Bill Moyers. Mador was a 2024 Association of Health Care Journalists Reporting Fellow. She has a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.