Pauline Dakin is the award-winning National Health and Medical Reporter for CBC Radio. Her work has been recognized with the National Science Writers prize, multiple investigative reporting prizes from the Canadian Association Journalists, the RNAO health reporting award, a Radio-Television News Directors Association award for continuing coverage, and a citation from the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada. She was also nominated for a Michener Award in 2005 for a collaborative series on adverse drug reactions in children.

Pauline has worked as a producer, on-air host, assignment editor and reporter in film, television, radio and print for several years, and she has worked in Manitoba, New Brunswick and now in Halifax.