Laura Helmuth is the Health, Science, and Environment Editor for The Washington Post, where she manages a team of a dozen reporters and three editors who cover all fields of research, science funding, health policy, and related subjects. She has been an editor for National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian, and Science magazines, and a freelance writer or editor for the New York Times, Nautilus, National Wildlife, Stanford Medicine and other publications. She was president of the National Association of Science Writers from 2016 to 2018 and currently serves on the advisory boards of High Country News, Spectrum, the Geological Society of Washington, the Society for Science and the Public, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s SciLine. She is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s standing committee on advancing science communication research and practice. She has a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the University of California at Berkeley and attended the University of California at Santa Cruz Science Communication Program.