David Heath (born 1959) is an American investigative journalist and author of "Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine."He was a Senior Reporter at The Center for Public Integrity.He won the 2002 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, with Duff Wilson, the 2001 George Polk Award, and two Gerald Loeb Awards: Large Newspapers in 2002 for "Uninformed Consent", and an Honorable Mention for Medium Newspapers in 2006 for "Selling Drug Secrets".