Jacqueline Howard

Jacqueline Howard is a feature writer, reporter, and on-air talent at CNN Health, covering the latest news in fitness, diet, nutrition, parenting, relationships, medicine, diseases and healthy living. Previously, she served as senior science editor at The Huffington Post and host/producer of the video series “Talk Nerdy To Me.” She appeared weekly on HuffPost Live’s “Nerd’s Forum” segment in which she discusses the latest news in science, health, and technology, and she served as the on-air talent in a series of educational videos for The Nature Conservancy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Big History Project. Howard also has appeared on CNN and MSNBC. She was honored to serve as a guest judge in the prestigious 2015 Nikon Small World photomicrography competition and she was selected to participate in The White House’s “We the Geeks: Women Role Models” initiative in March 2014. As a published writer and television producer, Howard has produced content for USAToday.com, MTV Networks, CBS News Productions and WCPO-TV. She holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California and a bachelor's degree in communication studies from the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor.