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

Pitch Perfect

<p>The Open Notebook's Pitch Database gives freelance health journalists great examples and lessons to help them get their stories into magazines.</p>

A Hot List of Job Opportunities

<p>From Adweek's annual Hot List, this week in <em>Career GPS&nbsp;</em>we look for health-related jobs in thriving media outlets.</p>

Finding Sources on LinkedIn

<p>Twitter and Facebook rule our social media lives, but LinkedIn can also be a useful place to find sources and learn about the media organizations we want to work for.</p>

Thanksgiving

Merck pays to settle Vioxx investigation, and a Thanksgiving roundup

<p>Today's news roundup features the good and the bad in the fight against AIDS, health questions about food in cans, and a book for your long weekend. The <em>Daily Briefing</em> will go offline until Monday, so we sign off with some (health-related) Thanksgiving reads.</p>

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Hiring Anywhere: What MedCity News looks for in an editor

<p>Chris Seper is looking for an editor for MedCity News and while he's not looking for a social media expert, he does want someone who understands search and writing for the web. This week in <em>Career GPS</em>, he answers questions about the position.</p>

Los Angeles Times chronicles life and death behind bars

<p>Today's <em>Daily Briefing</em> features reporters' struggles to access health information, the health of truck drivers and women who have just given birth, and a must-read about what it means to die in prison.</p>

Seniors for Sale

Small Lessons from Michael Berens' Big Investigation of Senior Abuse

<p>Michael J. Berens,investigative reporter at <em>The Seattle Times</em>, spent 20 months working on the "Seniors for Sale" series. Even if you don't have that kind of time, you can still do investigative work in small pieces, he told this year's California Health Journalism Fellows.</p>