Selena Simmons-Duffin
Selena Simmons-Duffin reports on health policy for NPR.
She has worked at NPR for ten years as a show editor and producer, with one stopover at WAMU in 2017 as part of a staff exchange. For four months, she reported local Washington, DC, health stories, including a secretive maternity ward closure and a gesundheit machine.
Before coming to All Things Considered in 2016, Simmons-Duffin spent six years on Morning Edition working shifts at all hours and directing the show. She also drove the full length of the U.S.-Mexico border in 2014 for the "Borderland" series.
She won a Gracie Award in 2015 for creating a video called "Talking While Female," and a 2014 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for producing a series on why you should love your microbes.
Simmons-Duffin attended Stanford University, where she majored in English. She took time off from college to do HIV/AIDS-related work in East Africa. She started out in radio at Stanford's radio station, KZSU, and went on to study documentary radio at the Salt Institute, before coming to NPR as an intern in 2009.
She lives in Washington, DC, with her spouse and kids.
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The man charged in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was critical of U.S. health care. Experts say the system's problems are complex and can't be pinned on one player or industry. -
The death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson triggered a deluge of painful stories about health care denials on social media. -
The Ryan White program serves about half a million people with HIV, and 90% of them are successfully keeping the virus at undetectable levels. But will Republicans cut funding for the effort?
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President-elect Trump has tapped Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has a history of spreading conspiracies, including about vaccines, to run the Department of Health and Human Services.
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President-elect Donald Trump tried unsuccessfully to get rid of the Affordable Care Act during his first term. What action will he take this time around?
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The survey published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that trans teens taking puberty blockers or hormones had very low rates of regret. -
Only one-in-four employers cover in vitro fertilization in health insurance, according to KFF's annual survey. The costs of IVF have become a hot topic in the presidential race.
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More family medicine and primary care doctors are doing abortions and questioning why it’s been separated from other care for decades. -
The Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling upholds access to mifepristone, a drug used in more than 60% of abortions. The decision shocked some doctors and abortion rights advocates. -
The two major presidential candidates have very different approaches to health policy. What are they, and how might they shape health care access over the next four years?
