Liz Seegert

Liz Seegert is an award-winning independent health journalist with more than three decades of experience covering aging, women's health, social determinants of health and health policy. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, TIME, Fortune.com, Harvard Public Health, The Wirecutter, Money, and PBS.com, and been syndicated in Forbes, the Los Angeles Times, the Hartford Courant and the Saturday Evening Post, among other outlets.

As a contributing editor for the Association of Health Care Journalists, Liz helps guide reporters through the nuances of covering aging. She also co-directs two fellowships, focused on training and mentoring emerging journalists in health and age- beat reporting best practices. Liz holds a bachelor's in journalism from Boston University and a master's in social policy from Empire State University. A Queens native, she now lives in New York's Hudson Valley. When not writing, you can find her playing with her two young granddaughters, reading historical fiction, or losing herself in a good music documentary.