Eric M. Strauss is an Emmy®, duPont, Peabody and RFK Award-winning
journalist and executive. As the executive producer of the ABC News
Medical team, he is responsible for health and medical reporting on
air, online and streaming. He works daily with platforms like “Good
Morning America,” “World News Tonight,” “Nightline,” ABC
digital and social platforms, and ABC News-affiliated and Disney Owned
Television (OTV) Stations throughout the country.

Strauss manages a team of award-winning journalists and medical
doctors who appear in reporting and produce and edit compelling vital
content. He has contributed to multiple primetime television and radio
specials, including the Emmy Award-winning “The Shot: Race for a
Vaccine” and the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning radio special
“Pandemic: A Nation Divided.” Under his tenure, Strauss has
increased reporting on critical issues such as the mental health
epidemic, maternal mortality, gun violence, health disparities and
ongoing infectious disease threats. Strauss has developed
collaborations with the ABC News OTV group and supervises the ABC News
medical journalism rotation that welcomes 30 resident physicians a
year to embed with the Medical Unit, teaching them how to better
communicate with the public.

Strauss is a graduate of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana,
where he studied political economics. In 2014, he was awarded a
prestigious Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of
Michigan. In 2004, he was part of a team that reported on Bridget
Kelly, a teacher who survived a violent sexual attack and became an
advocate for survivors. The two are now married and live with their
two children in New York.
