Pauline Dakin is the national health/medical reporter for CBC Radio National News. She's won numerous awards for her medical reporting, including a Michener citation, awards from the National Science Writers Association, The Canadian Medical Association/Canadian Nurses Association, the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, an Investigative Reporters and Editors prize, and multiple awards from the Canadian Association of Journalists.

Bornin North Vancouver, B.C. she's lived from coast to coast with stops in Winnipeg, and Saint John, N.B. She has reported for newspaper, television and radio. She's now based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she has been with CBC Radio since 1993, working at various times as a reporter, editor, producer and host.

Pauline's hobbies include gardening, renovating her 100-year-old house, playing piano and kick-boxing. She's the proud mom and devoted taxi-driver of two daughters.