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Natasha Loder

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London, United Kingdom
As seen in: The Economist
Covers:  medicine, health, global health, some pharma, drug pricing, healthcare, medical breakthroughs, medical technology.
Doesn't Cover: Corporate results, staffing changes, consumer health
Health Editor, The Economist

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Natasha Loder’s Biography

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Natasha Loder is The Economist's health policy editor. She is based in London. She covers the intersection between medicine, business, and society. She is widely sought as a commentator, speaker, and moderator.

Between 2011 and 2014 she worked as a foreign correspondent in Chicago, covering the Midwest, American education, and agriculture.

She has worked at the paper since 2000, spending a decade on the science desk. Here she covered a wide range of subjects in science, technology, medicine a…

What was your first job as a journalist?

A small newsletter called Research Fortnight in the UK.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

Curiosity and a compulsion to tell a story.

The Comment Awards

2016 - Science Commentator of the Year

Medical Journalism Association

2018 - Best feature

For the long feature about humanity's progress on wiping out cancer.

American Association for Cancer Research

2018 - June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism

Medical Journalism Association

2021 - Feature of the Year

Suddenly, hope. Cover feature about the arrival of the Pfizer vaccine.