Heather Boerner is an award-winning journalist and author based in Pittsburgh. Her work has been published in/on in The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, NPR, PBS NewsHour, Medscape Medical News, Washington Monthly, Al Jazeera America and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. An excerpt of her book, Positively Negative: Love, Pregnancy, and Science's Surprising Victory Over HIV, ran on TheAtlantic.com. She has been a contributing editor to The Body/The BodyPRO, and is the HIV reporter for Medscape Medical News. Her work centers on linking science to culture, policy and people, primarily through interlinking narratives. Her specialties are women's health, infectious disease, and HIV.

She is the recipient of an Award of Excellent in Health Care Journalism from the Association of Health Care Journalists, the Best HIV Coverage Award from the Association of LGBTQ Journalists, and of fellowships from AHCJ and the Center for Health Journalism.