Brett Sholtis is WITF’s Transforming Health reporter, covering health care policy and community health issues across Pennsylvania. Topics of interest include mental health services, price transparency, and access to care. Previously, Brett was a business reporter at York Daily Record, where his work includes award-winning examinations of restaurant food safety and commercial nuclear waste storage. He’s a University of Pittsburgh graduate and saw some of his first bylines as a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette intern. In his life before journalism, Brett served in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard in Kosovo and worked in the motorcycle industry in Southern California.
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