Sarah Boden
Independent Health & Science Reporter
Independent Journalist
Professional Bio
As a teenager in Wisconsin, Sarah Boden worked after school as a telemarketer selling cable internet and TV. Making unsolicited phone calls to taciturn strangers prepared Sarah for a career in journalism.
Today, Sarah covers health and science for 90.5 WESA, where she's won numerous awards, including a 2023 Keystone Media Award for her series "The cost of forgetting: Dementia's tax on financial health." She also won a third-place Award of Excellence for her dementia series from the Association of Health Care Journalists.
Before coming to Pittsburgh in November 2017, she was a reporter for Iowa Public Radio, where she won a regional Edward R. Murrow for her story on a legal challenge to Iowa's felon voting ban.
As a contributor to the NPR-Kaiser Health News Member Station Reporting Project on Health Care in the States, Sarah's print and audio reporting appears on NPR and KFF Health News.
Today, Sarah covers health and science for 90.5 WESA, where she's won numerous awards, including a 2023 Keystone Media Award for her series "The cost of forgetting: Dementia's tax on financial health." She also won a third-place Award of Excellence for her dementia series from the Association of Health Care Journalists.
Before coming to Pittsburgh in November 2017, she was a reporter for Iowa Public Radio, where she won a regional Edward R. Murrow for her story on a legal challenge to Iowa's felon voting ban.
As a contributor to the NPR-Kaiser Health News Member Station Reporting Project on Health Care in the States, Sarah's print and audio reporting appears on NPR and KFF Health News.