AHCJ Board Vice President

Christine Herman is an independent audio editor and health journalist. She\’s the editor of Illinois Public Media\’s Student Newsroom, where she trains University of Illinois journalism students to cover local news for the NPR station serving east-central Illinois. She got her start in public radio at Illinois Public Media in 2015 as a founding producer for The 21st show and went on to become a reporter for IPM News, and later, the managing editor of Side Effects Public Media based at WFYI in Indianapolis. Herman has been on the board of the Association of Health Care Journalists since 2021 and is currently AHCJ\’s vice president and chair of the contest committee. She received the 2023 Media Award from Mental Health America and is a 2018-19 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow. She got her Ph.D. in chemistry and M.S. in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.