Independent Judges Panels
Digital Media Award Judges
- Julia Belluz, Senior Health Correspondent, Vox.com
- Aaron E. Carroll, Indiana University School of Medicine; contributor, The New York Times; The Incidental Economist; Healthcare Triage
- Christopher J. Conover, Retired health policy faculty, Duke University; contributor, The Apothecary, Forbes
- Michael Millenson, President, Health Quality Advisors LLC; Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University; contributor, Forbes & The Health Care Blog
- Alan Murray, President and CEO, Fortune
- Meredith White, formerly Newsweek, ABC News and San Francisco Chronicle
Print Journalism Awards Judges
- Eliza Barclay, Science and Health Editor, Vox.com
- John Carreyrou, Author of Bad Blood, formerly Investigative Reporter with The Wall Street Journal
- Ceci Connolly, President and CEO, Alliance of Community Health Plans, formerly with The Washington Post
- John Fauber, Medical Reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel & USA Today Network
- John Iglehart, Founding Editor, Health Affairs
- Clifton Leaf, Editor-in-Chief, Fortune
- Fred Schulte, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News
Research Award Judges
- Laurence C. Baker, Professor & Chair of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University
- Tsung-Mei Cheng, Health Policy Research Analyst, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University
- William Custer, Associate Professor & Director, Center for Health Services Research, Georgia State University
- Karen DeSalvo, Chief Health Officer, Google
- Sherry Glied, Dean, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
- Vicky Gregg, Consultant
- Joseph P. Newhouse, John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard University
- Mark Pauly, Professor of Health Care Management & Business Economics an Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania
- Gail R. Wilensky, Senior Fellow, Project HOPE
Television & Radio Award Judges
- Callie Crossley, Television Commentator, GBH; Radio Commentator, NPR; former Health and Medicine Producer, 20/20, ABC News
- Susan Dentzer, Visiting Fellow, Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke University; former Senior Policy Adviser, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; former Health Correspondent, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS
- Gisele Grayson, Deputy Editor, Science Desk, NPR
- Stone Phillips, StonePhillipsReports.com; former Dateline NBC Anchor
- Alice Pifer, Co-Producer, Beyond Hoarding Documentary; Co-Editor, The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity; former Producer, ABC News
- Julie Rovner, Robin Toner Distinguished Fellow, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News
- Susan Wagner, Senior Coordinating Producer, Medical Unit, NBC News