
Aviva Patz
Author
Education: BA English Barnard College, Columbia University; MA in Magazine Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Expertise: Health, weight loss
Aviva is an award-winning health and lifestyle journalist with more than 25 years of print and digital writing and editing experience, including as executive editor of Psychology Today and Reader\\\’s Digest and TheHealthy.com.
Under Aviva’s leadership, Reader’s Digest earned several awards: Finalist, Editorial Team of the Year, Digiday Media (2023); Best Pet’s Article, CAPS (2023); and Google US SEO Visibility Winner, Sistrex (2022).
Aviva has written thousands of health articles for publications including Health, Prevention, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, InStyle, Shape, Fitness, Cooking Light, Redbook, SELF, Parents, New York Magazine, Latina and more.