Steve Sternberg is the assistant managing editor for health initiatives and an architect of the U.S. News & World Report Healthiest Communities Initiative, a population health assessment of roughly 3,000 U.S. counties. His most recent investigative projects focused on unsafe surgery in U.S. military hospitals worldwide and preventable deaths among children undergoing complex congenital heart surgery. Sternberg is a 2015 recipient of an Association of Health Care Journalist’s Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism, the Dag Hammarskjold Award for Human Rights Journalism and the American Heart Association’s Howard L. Lewis Achievement Award, among others. In 1992, he was awarded a John S. Knight Professional Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University, where he studied health policy and genetics.