Eli Cahan
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Eli Cahan is an award-winning investigative journalist covering the intersection of child welfare and health policy. His written work has been featured in Rolling Stone, where he is a contributing writer, as well as ProPublica, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications.
His multimedia work has appeared on TV via ABC and on radio via NPR. Cahan’s reporting has won awards from the National Press Club, the News Leaders Association, and elsewhere. He was shortlisted for the Livingston Award in 2025.
Cahan has received reporting fellowships from The McGraw Center, the National Press Foundation, and the Dart Center, among others.
Cahan is a neonatal intensive care doctor at Stanford University, having completed his pediatrics training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is the director of the Health Media Fellowship at Stanford University, and was the inaugural journalist-in-residence at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
He has published nearly two dozen studies that have garnered over 600 citations and have been featured in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the British Medical Journal, among other publications.
