About

Andy Miller

Miller has been a health care journalist since 1992. He was The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s main health care reporter from that time until May 2009, when he retired from the newspaper. He has been working as a freelancer for publications that include Kaiser Health News, AARP Bulletin, WebMD, msnbc.com, Arthritis Today, and AOL’s WalletPop, where he writes a column, Dollars & Health. From 2001 to 2002 he was a Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellow, studying indoor air quality and its effect on health. He has won numerous awards for health care reporting. In addition to his freelance work, he is developing a nonprofit health journalism news service that will focus on Georgia health care news, called Georgia Health News.

He serves on AHCJ's Freelance Committee and serves as president of the recently formed Atlanta chapter of AHCJ.

Prior to his journalism career, he was a social studies teacher and basketball coach at a North Carolina middle school and high school. He has an undergraduate degree in history from Duke University, and a master’s in teaching, also from Duke. He is married and lives in Atlanta.