Jordan Lite

I am managing editor at Weill Cornell Medicine and specialize in communicating health and science information to general-interest audiences. I spent five years covering medicine for the New York Daily News, and prior to that was a general assignment reporter for the Associated Press, first in Des Moines and then San Francisco. I also was the lead writer for Scientific American’s first news blog, 60-Second Science. My freelance work has been published in Newsweek, The Nation, Prevention, SELF, Scientific American MIND, Psychology Today, Miller-McCune (now Pacific Standard), Wired News, GOOD, AOL Health and iVillage, among other publications. In addition, I have edited and written for various institutional, nonprofit and custom publications.

I earned my MPH from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health with an emphasis on history and ethics, and graduated with honors in biomedical ethics from Brown University. I teach a summer course in science communication at the Mailman School. Please visit Communicating Public Health in the Media for more information.

Education

• MPH Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (2011 — 2013)
• A.B. with honors Brown University (1993 — 1997)

Companies

• Managing Editor Weill Cornell Medicine (2017)
• Senior Editor Weill Cornell Medicine (2013)
• Instructor, Communicating Public Health in the Media Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (2013 — 2018)
• Freelance journalist and writer Self-employed (2009 — 2013)
• Teaching Assistant Columbia Business School (2012 — 2012)
• Graduate Fellow Task Force on Life and the Law (NYSDOH) (2012 — 2012)
• Lead Writer, 60-Second Science blog Scientific American (2008 — 2009)
• Health Writer New York Daily News (2004 — 2008)
• Assistant Managing Editor Women's eNews (2002 — 2003)

Skills

• Media Relations
• Grant Writing
• Public Policy

Other

Strategic Communications, Press Releases, Books, Women's Health, Public Health, Editorial, Publications, Social Media, Research, Newsletters, Writing, Feature Articles, Blogging, Editing, Journalism