Apoorva Mandavilli
Apoorva Mandavilli | |
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| Nationality | American |
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| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | The New York Times |
| Known for | medical science articles |
| Website | apoorvamandavilli |
Apoorva Mandavilli is an American investigative journalist whose work has focused on medical science.[1] During the COVID-19 pandemic, she joined The New York Times as a health and science writer.[2] In the spring of 2019, she was writer-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin, where she joined a panel discussion on vaccine refusal while writing about containing a measles outbreak in Lowell, Massachusetts.[3][4][5]
Mandavilli is known for her work on autism, most notably being the founding editor-in-chief of Spectrum News, an online resource for the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative.[6] She is also a co-founder of Culture Dish, an organization dedicated to enhancing diversity in science journalism, and is the founding chair of the Diversity Committee for the National Association of Science Writers.[7]
Mandavilli was the 2019 winner of the Victor L. Cohn award for scientific journalism.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Apoorva Mandavilli | Tufts Office of the Vice Provost for Research". viceprovost.tufts.edu. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
- ^ "Apoorva Mandavilli Joining Health and Science". The New York Times company website (Press release). April 16, 2020.
- ^ Jordan Schelling (April 4, 2019). "Award-winning science journalist is UW-Madison writer in residence". Wisconsin Newspaper Association.
- ^ Chris Barncard (April 2, 2019). "Science journalist Mandavilli is UW–Madison writer in residence". University of Wisconsin–Madison.
- ^ Apoorva Mandavilli (April 19, 2019). "When Measles Arrives: Breaking Down the Anatomy of Containment". Undark Magazine.
- ^ Spectrumnews.org website
- ^ Apoorva Mandavilli; Nidhi Subbaraman (October 15, 2014). "Culture Dish: Promoting Diversity in Science Writing". Scientific American Voices blog.
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