Tara Parker-Pope 

Pulitzer Prize winning Author | Emmy Award Winning Producer |
​Washington Post "Well+Being" Editor

As the editor of the Washington Post's Wellness Department and a former New York Times columnist, Tara Parker-Pope is one of the most popular and sought after journalists in the country. She appears regularly on radio and television including Today, Good Morning America and CNN.

​Tara Parker-Pope is an editor and columnist who has devoted most of her career to consumer health news and service journalism. Before joining The Washington Post, she was the founding editor of "Well," the New York Times’s consumer health site. She was part of the newsroom team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of the pandemic. In 2013, she won a News and Documentary Emmy for “Life, Interrupted,” a video series about living with cancer in your 20s, for which she was the senior editorial producer. Her story “Kept From a Dying Partner’s Bedside” prompted President Barack Obama to issue new rules guaranteeing hospital visitation rights for same-sex couples. Before joining the Times in 2007, Parker-Pope was a health columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where she worked in the Dallas, London and New York offices. She has also worked as a staff reporter for the Houston Chronicle and the Austin-American Statesman. Her most recent book is “For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage” (Dutton, May 2010). The daughter of an Air Force pilot, Tara grew up in Arizona, Japan, Taiwan, Texas and Ohio. She is a co-founder of East Coast Power Volleyball Club, one of the largest youth volleyball programs in the United States. 
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Speech Topics

The power of easy new thoughts on health and wellness
Tara discusses how to harness the emerging science of friction for better health and wellness. 





“Tara Parker-Pope has as keen an eye for sociological spiderwebs as Malcolm Gladwell." 
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— Christopher McDougall
Author of the New York Times bestseller Born to Run ​          ​

Previous Engagements

HLTH Health Conference


​Books

For Better: How the Surprising Science of Happy Couples Can Help Your Marriage Succeed
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In this eye-opening—and ultimately optimistic—look at marriage today, Parker-Pope reveals the heart behind the statistics to bust the myths and share the true secrets to marital happiness.

“The most credible and interesting marital self-help book of all time” -- Newsweek
The Hormone Decision: Untangle the Controversy; Understand Your Options; Make Your Own Choices
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Tara Parker-Pope has been an eyewitness to the growing controversy surrounding hormone therapy. Her understanding of menopause research, and her access to the experts behind it, has given her unique insight into the complex issues surrounding hormone use. In The Hormone Decision, Parker-Pope explores the scientific, political and social forces that have shaped current thinking on hormone therapy. 

“Tara Parker-Pope is well known for the balanced and clear prospective that she brings to the topic of menopause in her Wall Street Journalarticles. This book similarly provides a comprehensive and accurate explanation of the subject. Tara has summarized and accurately interpreted a massive body of scientific literature on hormone therapy, distilling it into an enjoyable and understandable manuscript. It is essential reading for any woman entering the menopause. I recommend it to all of my menopausal patients.”  --Hugh S. Taylor, M.D., Associate Professor, Director Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Yale University School of Medicine
Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke
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Cigarettes chronicles the controversies of a 350 billion dollar industry, telling the fast-paced business story of cigarettes―from seed to smoke―that surprises as it entertains.
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"An absorbing and informative history . . . Parker-Pope's up-to-date coverage . . . is not only concise and accessible, but illuminating."
--Publishers Weekly


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