Eli Cahan is co-winner of the National Press Foundation’s Thomas L. Stokes Award for Best Energy and Environment Writing.

Eli Cahan MD, MSc is an award-winning investigative journalist covering the intersection of child welfare and health policy. His written work has been featured in Rolling Stone, where he is a contributing writer, as well as ProPublica, The Washington Post, and the LA Times among other publications. His multimedia work has appeared on TV via ABC and radio via NPR. Eli’s reporting has won awards from the National Press Club, News Leaders Association, and elsewhere; he was shortlisted for the Livingston Award in 2025. He has received reporting fellowships from The McGraw Center, National Press Foundation, and Dart Center, among others; he has also been a grantee of the Pulitzer Center, Type Media Center, and elsewhere. Eli is also a neonatal intensive care doctor at Stanford University, having completed his general pediatrics training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is the director of the Health Media Fellowship at Stanford University, and was the inaugural Journalist-in-Residence at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.