Anna Maria Barry-Jester is a reporter with ProPublica covering global health. She joined ProPublica in 2022 from KFF Health News, where she covered public health.

Barry-Jester has reported extensively on public health and environmental issues, including the Flint water crisis, gun deaths in the United States, catastrophic flooding in Pakistan and the health impacts of pollutants in India. She spent several years documenting and reporting the first international news stories on an epidemic of chronic kidney disease affecting agricultural workers in Central America and Southeast Asia for the Center for Public Integrity and other outlets. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she reported on the troubled public health response as well as the impact on state and local health departments for “This American Life,” the Los Angeles Times and other news organizations.

Barry-Jester’s work has been honored with a Gerald Loeb Award, a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, an AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award, the Investigative Data Journalism prize from the Online News Association and a communications award from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, among others.