Terry Waite
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Seema Yasmin
Emmy Award-Winning Medical Journalist
Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, medical doctor, professor, and author. She is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, clinical assistant professor in Stanford University’s Department of Medicine, and visiting professor at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA where she teaches crisis management and communications.
"Science Writer & Disease Detective"
In Detail
Dr. Yasmin’s reporting appears in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, WIRED, Scientific American, and on the BBC, NBC and other news networks. After training in medicine at the University of Cambridge, Yasmin served as an officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she investigated outbreaks in prisons, hospitals, reservations, and other settings; principal investigator for a number of epidemiologic studies; and was deployed as strategic advisor to foreign ministries of health. Her scholarly work focuses on the spread of health misinformation and disinformation, the growth of medical and news deserts, and the impact on public health.
What she offers you
Dr. Seema offers audiences a unique look inside her international health reporting and disease detective investigations as she takes them on profound learning journeys.
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