Jacqueline Howard

About

Jacqueline Howard is a health reporter for CNN, covering the latest news in medicine and healthy living around the world. She appears on CNN News Central, the network’s dayside programming, CNN’s The Situation Room and CNN International. Since joining CNN, many of Howard’s reporting assignments have led her to delve into the complexities of cancer, mental health, maternal health, and infectious diseases. When the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic in 2020, Howard was the first CNN reporter to break that news on the air and continued to cover the pandemic as it progressed. She also was honored to serve as a 2020 Press Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and a 2019 National Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. In 2017, Howard completed a journalist residency program at the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Prior to joining CNN, Howard served as senior science editor at The Huffington Post and host/producer of the video series “Talk Nerdy To Me.” As a communicator of health and science, Howard also has served as the on-air talent in a series of educational videos for The Nature Conservancy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Big History Project. She was selected to participate in The White House’s “We the Geeks: Women Role Models” initiative in 2014 and has appeared on The Steve Harvey Show to discuss health trends. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She currently serves as vice chair of the National Association of Black Journalists’ Health and Science Task Force.