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Erika Fry is a former senior writer at Fortune, focusing on features and investigative journalism on health care and international business. She has reported stories from India, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, among other locales, and she has won numerous honors for her work, including the WERT Prize for Global Business Reporting and a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Her story about the troubled rollout of the world’s first dengue vaccine in the Philippines was a finalist for a National Magazine Award and is anthologized in The Best American Magazine Writing 2020. She was a co-chair of the Fortune Most Powerful Women International conference and contributed to many Fortune franchises including Brainstorm Health and Change the World. Before joining Fortune in 2012, Erika worked as a writer and associate editor at the Columbia Journalism Review and as an investigative reporter with the Bangkok Post. A native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Erika graduated from Dartmouth College and received an MA in political journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Ken Langone and Bob Grossman at the NYU Langone Suffolk County hospital.
HealthHow big data and an A-list board turned struggling NYU Langone into a $14 billion hospital powerhouse
By Erika FryAugust 15, 2025
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FeaturesWill AI ever cure cancer? The multibillion-dollar race to bring the first AI-discovered drug to market
By Erika FryApril 3, 2025
Trump has promised to ‘knock out’ pharmacy benefit managers. How the drug middlemen became a $557 billion industry that its customers love to hate
MagazineTrump has promised to ‘knock out’ pharmacy benefit managers. How the drug middlemen became a $557 billion industry that its customers love to hate
By Erika FryJanuary 21, 2025
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Health20 innovative breakthroughs that will transform your health
By Erika FryDecember 18, 2024
How UnitedHealthcare and other mega-insurers came to dominate the $4.5 trillion health care industry that Americans both hate and rely upon
FeaturesHow UnitedHealthcare and other mega-insurers came to dominate the $4.5 trillion health care industry that Americans both hate and rely upon
By Erika FryDecember 14, 2024
How Eli Lilly went from pharmaceutical slowpoke to $791 billion juggernaut
MagazineHow Eli Lilly went from pharmaceutical slowpoke to $791 billion juggernaut
By Erika FryAugust 2, 2024
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FeaturesAmerica’s health system is still in crisis after its biggest cyberattack ever—but the ‘catastrophe’ is just a blip for the giant company that got hacked 
By Erika FryApril 23, 2024
Big Pharma's favorite lab monkey, the long-tailed macaque.
MagazineBig Pharma’s great lab monkey shortage: A crackdown on smuggling is causing chaos in America’s vital drug development pipeline
By Erika FryJanuary 27, 2024
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FeaturesIs Big Pharma’s favorite lab monkey endangered?
By Erika FryJanuary 27, 2024
A long-tailed macaque being held by lab employees.
FeaturesWhy Big Pharma can’t quit the lab monkey business
By Erika FryJanuary 27, 2024
a laboratory monkey sitting in its cage in the breeding centre for cynomolgus macaques (longtail macaques) at the National Primate Research Center of Thailand
FeaturesWhat losing vision in one eye helped me understand about animal research
By Erika FryJanuary 27, 2024
Addressing the social and racial barriers to health care equity
ConferencesAddressing the social and racial barriers to health care equity
By Erika FryOctober 13, 2023
A woman using a 'companion robot' from Intuition Robotics.
FeaturesShe was overwhelmed with loneliness after losing her husband of 65 years. Then a robot companion changed her life
By Erika FrySeptember 27, 2023
60% of Americans battling drug or alcohol addictions also have jobs. Here are the professions with the highest rates of substance-use disorder
Features60% of Americans battling drug or alcohol addictions also have jobs. Here are the professions with the highest rates of substance-use disorder
By Erika FryAugust 4, 2023
Catherine Forbes photographed at Genfoot's factory in Littleton, New Hampshire on July 20, 2023.
Magazine46 million Americans struggle with substance-use disorder. It’s time for bosses to stop ignoring them
By Erika FryJuly 27, 2023
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