Aneri Pattani is a senior correspondent at KFF Health News, a national nonprofit outlet covering U.S. health care and health policy. Pattani reports on a range of public health topics, with a focus on mental health, suicide, and substance use. Her multi-year series about how state and local governments are spending billions in opioid settlement funds made her a finalist for the Livingston Award and Scripps Howard Award. It was also featured on an episode of the late-night comedy show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Pattani was a 2019 recipient of the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism and now serves on the program’s advisory board. She received a bachelor’s in journalism from Northeastern University and a master’s in public health from Johns Hopkins University. As part of her master’s work, she co-authored a free online course to teach journalists how to responsibly report on suicide.