Jeremy Faust, MD
Jeremy Samuel Faust, MD, MS, is a board-certified emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.
He serves as Editor-in-Chief of MedPage Todayand writes Inside Medicine on Substack, where he examines health policy, evidence, and clinical practice.
His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, CNN, and more.
Dr. Faust completed his residency training at Mount Sinai Hospital and Elmhurst Hospital Center after earning his MD and MS in Biomedical Sciences at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Jeremy Samuel Faust, MD, MS, MA is a physician, writer, and researcher. He is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, and author of the Inside Medicine newsletter on Substack, which surpassed 11 million views in 2025 alone.
His research and scholarship on COVID-19 outcomes, medical epidemiology, and public health policy have appeared in The Lancet, JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Pediatrics, JAMA Network Open, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, The American Journal of Public Health, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and others.
A prolific essayist, he was a recipient of the 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Excellence in Science Communications Award, given by the National Academies of Sciences.
His writing has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Scientific American, and Slate. He has been a frequent guest on news programs, including CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX, PBS, BBC, and NPR, and has spoken at the Aspen Ideas Festival, the 92nd Street Y, and delivered a keynote address at the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Long Covid symposium.
A dedicated classical musician, from 2010 to 2020, he served as board president and artistic advisor for Roomful of Teeth, assisting in the production of the ensemble’s GRAMMY-winning debut album featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning recording of Caroline Shaw’s Partita for Eight Voices. He serves as conductor and artistic director of The Longwood Chorus, Boston’s 110-voice ensemble of medical and science professionals.