Julia has been covering health, fitness, and wellness as an editor and writer for more than two decades. At HeathCentral, she headed up new content development and oversaw a team of veteran health editors to create engaging, informative stories about chronic diseases. She’s the former articles director of Fitness magazine and deputy editor at Marie Claire. Her stories have won the United Nations Friends of the World Food Program Media Award, the NARAL Pro-Choice Media Award, and the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women Humanitarian Award for domestic violence coverage.