Highlights

• Nearly 10 years of experience as a journalist and editor

• Master’s degrees in psychology and journalism

• Earned a 2020 USC Center for Health Journalism fellowship to report on mental health

Experience

Renée Fabian is the senior pet health editor at GoodRx. She’s worked for nearly 10 years as a journalist and editor across a wide range of health and well-being topics. The last 5 years, Renée has focused largely on mental health topics, from therapy tips to coping skills, nonsuicidal self-injury, and anything else you can find in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). 

Before joining GoodRx, Renée wrote for a variety of major publications about health, including The Washington Post, Healthline, Talkspace, The Fix, The Mighty, and GRAMMY.com. 

Renée earned a 2019 Association of Health Care Journalists fellowship to study comparative effectiveness research. In 2020, with the support of a University of Southern California Center for Health Journalism California fellowship, Renée investigated how mental health parity leaves psychotherapists behind. She also earned a community engagement fellowship to complete the project, which included interviewing and surveying hundreds of therapists, clients, and other industry stakeholders. The resulting feature story, “Therapists Want to Provide Affordable Mental Health Care. Here’s What’s Stopping Them,” was published by California Health Report and The Mighty.

Renée is a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists. She has also attended a number of conferences on journalism, health literacy, and mental health hosted by organizations such as the Institute for Healthcare Advancement, Investigative Reporters and Editors, International OCD Foundation, Therapy Reimagined, and PESI, among others.

Education

Renée holds a master's degree in psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles and a master's degree in journalism from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.