Ben Harder is the general manager of health and science at U.S.
News & World
Report, where he oversees projects such as the Best
Hospitals
rankings.
He also contributes to the Washington Post's "How and Why" science column.
From
2001 to 2007,
he was a medical reporter and, later, the web editor at Science
News. One of his Science
News features was anthologized in Best
American Science Writing 2005.
Ben's
articles have also appeared in the Los Angeles Times,
Discover, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Slate, and USA
Today.
In the '90s, Ben worked for the Let's Go travel guides as
a correspondent in Southeast Asia, a guidebook editor
and eventually the company's editor in chief.
Since joining U.S. News in 2007, Ben
has
at turns served
its magazine and website as a health editor, science editor, and
senior director of business development.
Publications
Magazines
U.S. News & World Report (read the stories)
Science News
(read some of the stories)
Popular Mechanics (read the
stories)
Popular Science (read the story)
Slate (read the story)
Newspapers
Los Angeles Times (read the stories)
USA Today (read the stories)
The Washington Post (read the stories)
Websites & Wire Services
National Geographic News (read the stories)
Science magazine's ScienceNOW
Reuters Health
Books & Guidebooks
Best American Science Writing 2005 (HarperCollins;
contributor; read the
story as it appeared in Science News)
The Brazil
Guide 2005 (Bei Editora; consulting editor)
U.S. News & World Report: America's Best Colleges (contributor)
U.S. News & World Report: Best Graduate Schools (contributor)
The New Book of Knowledge (Grolier; contributing editor)
Let’s Go, Inc.
(editor in chief, 1998-1999)
Let’s Go: New York City 2000
(St. Martin's Press; managing
editor)
Let’s Go: Alaska & the Pacific Northwest 2000 (managing editor)
Let’s Go: South Africa 1999 (managing editor)
Let’s Go: Central America 1999 (managing editor)
Let’s Go: Southeast Asia 1999 (managing editor)
Let’s Go: Florence Map Guide (editor)
Let’s Go: Australia 1998 (editor)
Let’s Go: Southeast Asia 1997
(contributor; read NY
Times
account)
The Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard
1996-97 (contributor)
Fellowships
The New York Times
Company
Foundation
"Exploring the Brain" Journalism Institute
(December
2003)
John
S. and James L. Knight
Foundation
Knight Public Health Journalism Fellowship at CDC
(June-September 2002)