Eli Cahan, MD, MSc

Eli Cahan is an award-winning investigative journalist covering the intersection of child welfare and health policy. His written work has been featured in Rolling Stone, where he is a contributor, as well as ProPublica and The Washington Post, among other publications. His multimedia work has appeared on TV via ABC and radio via NPR.

Eli’s reporting has won awards from the National Press Club and elsewhere; he was shortlisted for the Livingston Award in 2025. He has received reporting fellowships from the National Press Foundation and the Pulitzer Center, among others.

Eli is also a neonatal intensive care doctor at Stanford University, having completed his pediatrics training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is the director of Stanford's Health Media Fellowship, and was the inaugural Journalist-in-Residence at Harvard's School of Public Health. He has published nearly two dozen studies which have been featured in NEJM, JAMA, and BMJ, among others.