Deborah Gastfreund Schuss is an award-winning writer and the recipient of a health/science journalism fellowship that supported her graduate education at the Harvard Kennedy School. She has worked for several news outlets as a reporter and editor, and her writing on health issues has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, WebMD, and the international health-policy journal Health Affairs, among other media. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, she has written and lectured widely on antisemitism.