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Rob Waters

(He/Him)
Oakland
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Covers:  I cover health, mental health, science, urban affairs, craftsmanship, travel and world culture -- and anything else that captures my interest and lends itself to good storytelling.
Journalist writing on health, mental health, science, public health. Founding editor, @MindSiteNews. This account has been archived, I will no longer post here.
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Rob Waters’s Biography

Rob Waters is the founding editor of MIndSite News, a digital publication focused on mental health that launched in Sept. 2021. An award-winning journalist and travel writer, Waters has been writing about health, science, public health, criminal justice and world culture for more than 30 years. He write frequently for Health Affairs and has been a contributor to STAT, Kaiser Health News/California Healthline, Craftsmanship Quarterly, NEO.LIFE and other publications. He covered biotechnology for Bloomberg News, was a senior editor at WebMD, contributing editor to the Psychotherapy Networker and editor-in-chief of the Tenderloin Times, a four-language San Francisco community newspaper. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Mother Jones, the Atlantic, BusinessWeek, San Francisco magazine, Salon.com, Sierra, Columbia Journalism Review, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. He co-authored From Boys to Men, published in 2004 by Simon & Schuster. He is based in Oakland and is a member of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto.