Christine Herman

Christine Herman is a Ph.D. chemist turned audio journalist who covers health for the Illinois Newsroom and Side Effects Public Media. Her work has aired on national broadcasts including Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Here & Now and has received awards from the Public Media Journalists Association, the Illinois Associated Press Broadcasters Association and the Radio Television Digital News Association.Christine is part of a national reporting partnership with NPR and Kaiser Health News and was a 2018-19 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism fellow. She started at WILL in 2015. Prior to her reporting role, she was a founding producer of WILL’s statewide talk show, The 21st.