He was the 2011-12 Nieman Foundation Global Health Reporting Fellow at Harvard University. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Economist, The Guardian, The Times, Time, National Journal, Mother Jones, The Nation, The Washington Post, Slate, The Lancet, and on PBS. From 2001-02 he was a Knight-Bagehot Journalism Fellow in Business and Economics at Columbia University. In 2013, he held an appointment as an associate research faculty at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University. During his fellowship, he will be investigating the political, economic, and institutional barriers to reforming American foreign assistance programs for global health and hunger.