Yasmeen Khan is currently a producer for the All Things Considered broadcast at North Carolina Public Radio--WUNC. She is also helping WUNC's news department start Public Insight Network, a new project devoted to bringing more citizen-voices into reporting.

Khan graduated from the Medical Journalism Program in 2007 as the second recipient of the Pfizer Minority Medical Journalism Scholarship.

While a medical journalism master's student, Khan completed a health reporting internship in the WUNC news department. During her internship she covered a domestic violence story that won an award from the Public Radio News Directors Inc. competition in the category of student newscast spot reporting.

Khan received a B.A. in sociology from Brandeis University in 2001. She continued her interest in international health by working for Pathfinder International, a Boston-based health organization focusing on reproductive and maternal and child health programs abroad.

 In 2003, Khan moved to Lima to work for the Pathfinder, Peru field office. For one year she assisted in managing local projects and initiated a pilot program for health interventions of gender-based violence. Khan has also held jobs as a bartender, toll collector and dish washer.

Yasmeen Khan's radio journalism links:

Health Intervention in the Black Church

Barbershop Health Project

Novartis Comes to Holly Springs

Cadaver Memorial Service

Soldiers Return to Fort Bragg