Judy Foreman

Nationally syndicated health reporter and speaker on health issues for everyone, from college students to retirees

Judy Foreman was a staff writer at The Boston Globe for 23 years, from 1978 through 2000, and a medical specialist and science writer since 1985. 

She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College in 1966. After 3 years in the Peace Corps in Brazil, she earned a Master's in Education for General Purposes from Harvard University Graduate School of Education. 

After getting her Master's, Ms. Foreman taught junior high school for several years, began a doctoral program in psychology, then took a job as a reporter for The Lowell Sun in Lowell, Mass. 

After moving to the Globe, she wrote for the Living section, then enjoyed a stint as a guest reporter at The Times of London for six months in 1982. Then, after becoming a science and medical writer, she won a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989-1990.

For years, she wrote the weekly Health Sense column for the Globe's Health & Science section; the column offers reader-friendly, practical medical advice for consumers. Her column was syndicated internationally through United Media in New York.

She now writes the Health Sense column on a monthly, freelance basis.Her column is internationally syndicated again and appears in numerous newspapers, including the LA Times, Dallas Morning News, and other papers here and abroad. She also appears regularly on WBUR, the NPR affiliate in Boston.

She has won numerous national journalism awards, including from groups such as National Headliners Awards, the American Society on Aging, the National Women's Political Caucus, the American Heart Association, the Arthritis Foundation, the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Clarion award, among others. 

She also co-wrote the script for a video documentary about a young woman dying of breast cancer that won the 1998 George Foster Peabody award. Foreman was formerly a Lecturer on Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a consultant/patient advocate at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Affiliated Scholar in the Women's Studies Program at Brandeis University. 

Besides her professional history as a health columnist, Foreman is also a competitive Masters swimmer.