Julie Wernau

Julie Wernau is a journalist and audio producer whose work explores the intersections of health, policy, business, addiction, mental illness, and public safety. She is a reporter and producer for the health policy podcast Tradeoffs. Previously, she reported for The Wall Street Journal, where she traveled across the U.S. covering mental illness and addiction, and worked as a business reporter at The Chicago Tribune and a crime reporter at her hometown newspaper, The Day. Her reporting on the fentanyl crisis and psychosis has earned two Pulitzer Prize nominations, as well as awards from the New York Press Club and the Newswomen’s Club of New York. She lives in Georgia, where she is also co-founder of Steel Pioneer Fire Cooking, an outdoor cooking school.

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