Eli Cahan is a freelance journalist whose work has been featured in VICE, The LA Times, The Guardian, Vox, PBS, Foreign Policy, The Seattle Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Science, and Scientific American, among other publications. He is a contributor for Kaiser Health News. He is also a master's student in health policy at Stanford School of Medicine and a fourth year medical student at NYU School of Medicine. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. His academic research has been featured in NEJM, JAMA, BMJ, Health Affairs, and elsewhere.