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 and a .
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 .
She won a in 2015 for creating a video called "," and a 2014 for producing a series on .
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, , and went on to study documentary radio at the , before coming to NPR as an intern in 2009.
She lives in Washington, DC, with her spouse and kids.
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President Trump campaigned on lowering the cost of IVF, after a controversial ruling made the treatment stop in Alabama for a short time. -
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wins confirmation to be President Trump's secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. The vote was 52 to 48. -
Hospitals and clinics that have offered gender-affirming treatments to transgender youth reacted in a variety of ways to an executive order that aims to halt the care. -
Many groups that rely on a federal payment portal started experiencing problems accessing funds last week. HHS says "technical issues" are to blame and lag times continue. -
President Trump's executive order to ban gender affirming care for young people had immediate effects. Clinics canceled appointments and patients are in limbo. Now, there's a lawsuit.
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RFK Jr.'s nomination cleared the Senate Finance Committee by a 14-13 party line vote. -
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites. -
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wanted "gold standard science" on vaccines, but when presented with compelling research, he cited reasons to doubt it. -
RFK Jr. faced fierce questioning about vaccines, abortion and Medicaid in his confirmation hearing to be HHS Secretary.
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Senators grilled Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccines, abortion and Medicaid in his confirmation hearing to lead HHS. RFK Jr. has another hearing Thursday.
