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Rob Cullen

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Rob Cullen has been writing about health policy for What If Post since 2009. Founded in 2007, What If Post is a website dedicated to helping non-experts understand America’s massively complex healthcare system and the efforts to reform it.

Rob is also the web content manager for the Women’s Campaign Fund and writes their weekly MsRepresentation newsletter on women in politics. As a freelance writer based in Pittsburgh, his work has appeared in Pittsburgh City Paper, Pulp, Carnegie Mellon Today, MAKE Magazine, and other publications.