For 7 years, I ran a PTA committee called Beast Relief at my kids' school, to help save wildlife. Each year, the kids wrote/illustrated a book about a real endangered animal. Our proudest moment: when Dr. Jane Goodall wrote the foreword for One Special Elephant. RIP Jane Goodall. 💔

Delighted to join Brown Club of Charlotte Oct. 16 7 PM ET to talk about pursuing investigative journalism in a misinformation age. Event open to all: brownconnectplus.brown.edu/events/12486...

"We are in a state of free fall." My new @vanityfair.com Q&A w/ pandemic preparedness expert @mtosterholm.bsky.social on publication of his new book, "The Big One: How We Must Prepare For Future Deadly Pandemics." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/p...

EXCLUSIVE: My latest @vanityfair.com story is a deep dive into RFK Jr's controversial deputy chief of staff Stefanie Spear. Formerly a radical environmental activist, she's become a powerful MAHA gatekeeper, dogged by opponents Laura Loomer + Steve Bannon: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m... /1

Great to talk w/ @theweekendprime.bsky.social about this consequential moment for public health.

Looking forward to going on @theweekendprime.bsky.social shortly to talk about RFK Jr. and the recent public health tumult. Tune in around 6:40pm.

I'm not sure I've ever seen anything that better captures Trump's second term. Note the "reported to be". Six months in and it wasn't even clear whether he was the head of the office. And in fact he wasn't. Or maybe he was. But now he's out. www.statnews.com/2025/07/30/w...

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump Administration's pandemic preparedness leader Gerald Parker has resigned and biosecurity expertise is flatlining at White House, I report in an exclusive for @statnews.com. The White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy www.statnews.com/2025/07/30/w... /1

NYC friends: this poor dog was almost on his freedom ride out of the pound when his foster didn't show up on him. He's now in danger of being put down. Do you have space in your home and heart to adopt him? ❤️ Also, lots of animals at this NYC shelter who need a home. nycacc.app#/browse/225834

Delighted to talk w/ @vinguptamd.bsky.social for this @meidastouch.com podcast about my latest @vanityfair.com article, on the rise of RFK Jr.’s right-hand man, Calley Means: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

So proud of my former @newmarkjplus.bsky.social students. Our 2-year @statnews.com investigation into the ethics of a Mount Sinai research study that takes brain tissue from vulnerable patients won a Silurians Press Club award for science + health reporting: www.silurians.org/2025-siluria...

".... a six-month Vanity Fair investigation raises questions about whether Means has embellished his personal story. “Calley Means is not a whistleblower. He is an opportunist...." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c... via @katherineeban.bsky.social @vanityfair.com

A devastating take down of the man driving RFK Jr on processed food: Says his former boss:” He is an opportunist, peddling junk science to make millions.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

If *MAHA* seems like an amateurish mess, it’s because it is. A big reason why is people like Calley Means — no relevant healthcare skills other than knowing how to curry favor and obtain power. Incredible reporting as always by @katherineeban.bsky.social www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

A major investigation into HHS advisor Calley Means by @katherineeban.bsky.social is out. She interviewed 60 people and raises big questions about his biography and whether he stands to benefit personally from the MAHA agenda: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

“Calley Means is not a whistleblower. He is an opportunist, peddling junk science to make millions,” says Steve Schmidt, Means’s former mentor. VF’s @katherineeban.bsky.social ‪ investigates the MAHA warrior.

EXCLUSIVE: @calleymeans, former wedding-dress entrepreneur, rose rapidly to become a #MAHA leader + top @SecKennedy advisor. A 6-month @vanityfair.com investigation raises Qs about whether he embellished his personal story + is pushing reforms that will benefit www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c... /1

Honored that my @vanityfair.com story "Inside the Bungled Bird Flu Response: Where Profits Collide with Public Health," won a Deadline Club award last week for magazine investigative reporting. Here's what the judges said.

Delighted my @VanityFair.com story on counterfeit Ozempic, Shots in the Dark, has won @NYPressClub award for magazine consumer reporting. Great addt'l reporting by @berileski.bsky.social @katherineli.bsky.social. Stellar editing by @tapeslammike.bsky.social. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Credit to @katherineeban.bsky.social for finding the former residents and getting the story.

Dog moms are definitely moms.

Casey Means, Trump’s nominee to be the next surgeon general, walked away from a promising career in the medical establishment, making her a MAHA rising star. Some fellow residents and a former department chairman say the situation was more complicated.

The new appointee for #SurgeonGeneral, #CaseyMeans, did not finish her ENT residency and is not licensed to treat patients. Excellent article in @vanityfair.com by @katherineeban.bsky.social Leaving medicine is not inherently bad! But misrepresenting yourself as a medical professional(1/2)

NEW: 2 former residents + retired department chairman tell @vanityfair.com that Casey Means, Trump's Surgeon General nominee, left her medical residency after suffering stress, then spun the story as a revelation about medical corruption, benefiting from the retrofitted narrative: t.co/9wVUNdvda2

Looking forward to going on the terrific new @msnbc.com “The Weekend: Primetime” show shortly to discuss the latest worrying healthcare developments in Trump 2.0. Tune in around 6:30pm.

Thanks for having me on, @gregolear.bsky.social

Honored my @vanityfair.com story Inside the Bungled Bird Flu Response won 1st place in @healthjournalism.org awards in public-health category; my story on fake Ozempic got 3rd place in investigative. Both had 1 great thing in common: editor Mike Hogan. healthjournalism.org/contest-entry/

Discovered today that shmurah matzo autocorrects to samurai matzo.

"In early March, Marks said, Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S." www.wsj.com/health/healt... via @WSJ

Measles and tariffs, what century is this?

Also, If you are a federal health employee, RIF-ed or not, and have specific info on the impact of these cuts, you can DM or reach me on Signal at KatherineEban.45.

It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.

NEW @vanityfair.com: When Americans died, were blinded, had eyeballs removed from tainted eye drops, @fda.gov relied on Dr Timothy Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies yesterday. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Delighted to speak with Scott Tong on @npr.org's Here & Now about my most recent @vanityfair.com piece on #COVID_19's origins, "Inside the FBI's Lab Leak Investigation." You can listen here: www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2....

In case you want some sweet news today. I’m volunteering at the book fair at my kid’s school, and discovered Dav Pilkey paid for the whole thing. For the entire school. Every kid pre-k through fifth grade (the whole school) goes home with two free books.

the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed

A must read on evaporation of press freedoms under autocracy, by one of Hungary’s leading investigative journalists: “We learned it is easy for billionaires…to be champions of press freedom when the risks are low, but you can’t count on them when things get tough. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I could write up why there’s no constitutional problem with the President using an auto-pen to sign official documents—or I could just post the 30-page 2005 opinion by George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel that explains why in lots of detail. I choose the latter: www.justice.gov/file/494411/...

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Loving our neighbors to the North right now. Hi, Justin!

Pleased to speak w/ Robby Soave and Marianne Williamson of @thehill.com Rising about my recent @vanityfair.com story, "Inside the FBI's Lab Leak Investigation." You can catch the clip here: thehill.com/video/fbi-pr...

NEW: Measles hits Pennsylvania Montgomery County is the site of Pennsylvania's first confirmed measles case this year amid a national surge of the highly contagious virus. An investigation and contact tracing are underway. The patient — a child — visited the following locations during the…

Especially after today…

For the record Pres. Zelenskyy has thanked the United States and Americans - 33 times to date including in an emotional speech to Congress.

MAGA are mad at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit for an official White House meeting. Meanwhile:

A child in Texas died from measles — the first measles death in the U.S. in a decade. The child wasn't vaccinated.

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

Not sure how I missed this, but delighted that @maddow.msnbc.com featured @vanityfair.com's reporting on how Don Jr.'s hunting buddy has been tapped to oversee America's food safety. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywin...

This should be front page news in every media outlet.