Jacqueline Howard is a feature writer and reporter for CNN Health, based at the network's world headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. You can follow Jacqueline at @jacqehoward and watch her appearances on CNN's morning show New Day and HLN's daily news program "Michaela."

Prior to joining CNN, Jacqueline served as senior science editor at The Huffington Post, and she was host/producer of the video series "Talk Nerdy To Me."

Jacqueline also has served as the on-air talent in a series of educational videos for The Nature Conservancy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Big History Project. She was honored to serve as a guest judge in the 2015 Nikon Small World photomicrography competition, and she was selected to participate in The White House's "We the Geeks: Women Role Models" initiative in 2014.

Jacqueline holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, and a bachelor's degree in communication studies from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Jacqueline is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.