Heather Boerner is an award winning independent journalist whose work has appeared in PBS NewsHour, NPR, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast and elsewhere. She has served as a contributing editor for the HIV website TheBody.com and covers HIV for Medscape Medical News. She is a winner of the Best HIV/AIDS Coverage award from the Association of LGBTQ Journalists. She has shared her expertise as a speaker on podcasts, a panelist and moderator of health journalism conference panels, and as a speaker on creative nonfiction. Her book, Positively Negative: Love, Pregnancy, and Science’s Surprising Victory Over HIV, came out in 2014.