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Yasmin Rafiei is a reporter-in-residence at the Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program. Her journalism focuses on healthcare and social welfare reform. Rafiei’s latest investigation, on private equity-owned nursing homes, was published in The New Yorker. She also has been published in The Guardian, Foreign Policy, The Globe & Mail and The New England Journal of Medicine, among others. She has been an Ida B. Wells Fellow and an Ida Tarbell Fellow. Her work is informed by experience in health policy. Rafiei has worked as an advisor to Canada’s COVID Task Force; an analyst at Chatham House, a global affairs think tank; and she’s completed graduate studies in politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Currently, she’s at work on a domestic violence feature for The New Yorker.