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

Career Profile: 24 years of health reporting at one newspaper

<p>André Picard has an enviable and unusual journalism career. He began his professional life as a summer intern at <em>The Globe and Mail</em> in Canada and stayed on with the paper for 24 years. "Yes, I have a very boring CV," Picard joked in a phone interview from Montréal.</p>

Zingers, quotes, anecdotes and other things that make your writing great

<p>When we think about how to get eyeballs on our reporting these days, we talk a lot about Twitter and Facebook and online branding.&nbsp;Tracy Weber, senior reporter at ProPublica, took California Health Journalism Fellows back to the basics of getting and keeping readers: great writing.</p>

Treating "Slum Housing Disease"

<p>Dr. Rishi Manchanda wants to practice smart medicine. From a clinic in South Los Angeles, he told the California Health Journalism Fellows, "It is not smart to take a cockroach out of an ear and just send that child home," Manchanda says.</p>

Starting a conversation about PTSD

<p>Mental health professionals say that journalists need to get informed and be open to talking about how their work affects their mental health. This week at&nbsp;<em>Career GPS</em>, we get that conversation going.</p>

Awards for your best work in 2010

<p>Last week in <em>Career GPS</em>, the <em>ReportingonHealth</em> community shared its best health media in 2010. This week, we're highlighting awards to celebrate that work.</p>