I was the founding community manager here at ReportingonHealth.org and helped design, build and create this community from 2010 to 2012. I created and launched the Career GPS blog and advocated design changes that would prioritize and highlight members' work. I'm happy to continue here as a member and incorporate important questions about health into my reporting.

I'm now the Social Media Manager at Public Radio International, where I work on the digital side of show like The World to build coverage and conversation around global health and immigration.

I've also worked as a freelance journalist writing online and magazine pieces from across Asia, including China, Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. I am the co-editor of Chinese Characters, a collection of stories about life in China to be published by UC Press this year. I was a South Asian Journalists Association Reporting Fellow in 2007/08 and the editor of the online magazine AsiaMedia from 2004 to 2007. I am now a consulting editor to the Journal of Asian Studies. My writing has appeared in the LA Weekly, Far Eastern Economic Review, Mother Jones Online, Pacific Standard, TimeOut Singapore and Global Voices.

Articles

So you want to write a book?

<p>You know you want take the long journey of writing a book, but how do you take the first step? Here are some top tips for getting published from three health writers who have been there.</p>

How I Got Here: The Genesis of Careers in Health Media

<p>Last week, Ed Yong over at the <em>Discover</em> blog <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/"><em>Not Exactly Rocket Science</em></a> wrote a brilliant post.</p><p>And when I say brilliant, I mean to say that it is brilliant because he didn't write much at all. The post is called "<a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/07/29/on-the-or… the Origin of Science Writing</a>" and it's a lovely example of the power of crowd-sourcing. At last look, 124 people have commented to explain how they became science writers.</p>

Sneak Preview: The Next Big Stories in Health

<p>We are two weeks out from the <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/blogs/recap-week-challenging-our-heath… week of seminars and conversations</a> where this year's USC/California Endowment National Health Journalism Fellows and Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism grant recipients met each other and dived deeply into their reporting projects. If you're curious about what they're working on, here's a rundown. (Read more by clicking on fellows' names, and comment to give them ideas for their work.)</p>

The Nonprofiteers

<p>Sheri Fink won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting this year for her compelling narrative about life-and-death choices made by health care providers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. While the story ran in <em>The New York Times Magazine</em>, she did her reporting while enmeshed in the nonprofit journalism world, as a <a href="http://www.kff.org/mediafellows/">Kaiser Media Fellow</a> and later as a reporter at the nonprofit newsroom <a href="http://www.propublica.org/">ProPublica</a>.</p&gt;

Churning out Content, or Ways to Make a Buck

<p>One of the central ironies for beleaguered journalism job hunters today is that the demand for content is huge. If you are among those who regularly scour journalism job sites, you might have noticed that some of the most common listings are calls for writers to produce short articles at low piecemeal rates.</p>