Joey Berlin is the director of advocacy communications at THA. He creates and oversees creation of content to further THA’s messaging on sound health care policymaking at both the state and federal levels, primarily focused on legislative and regulatory matters.

View all posts Joey Berlin is the director of advocacy communications at THA. He creates and oversees creation of content to further THA’s messaging on sound health care policymaking at both the state and federal levels, primarily focused on legislative and regulatory matters. Regular pieces of content in which Joey plays a central role include THA’s weekly email newsletter, the Health Care Advocate; issue-focused white papers, state and federal priorities documents; the creation of advocacy videos highlighting important issues; and THA’s end-of-session report that recaps important legislation passed in each session of the Texas Legislature. Joey has served in communications roles in the health care trade association industry for nearly a decade. Prior to THA, he worked in communications at the Texas Medical Association (TMA) for seven years, serving as a reporter, associate editor of the association’s monthly magazine, and finally managing editor of TMA’s daily email newsletter. His areas of focus at TMA included legislative affairs, law, public health and quality. Before TMA, Joey spent most of his career in the world of daily news journalism, working at the Topeka Capital-Journal and Emporia Gazette newspapers in both reporting and editing roles in the news and sports departments, and for the news division of WorkCompCentral, a website focused on workers’ compensation. Awards that Joey has won for his newspaper work include a First Place award from the Kansas Press Association for Government/Political Story (Daily Division 2), and Wrestling Media of the Year from the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association for his high school wrestling coverage. Joey has lived in Austin since 2014 and joined THA in 2022. He’s originally from Leawood, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City.