Apoorva Mandavilli Explained

Apoorva Mandavilli
Occupation:Journalist
Employer:The New York Times
Nationality:American
Known For:medical science articles

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, an online publication that stemmed from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative and is now part of The Transmitter.[6] She also co-founded 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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Apoorva Mandavilli Tufts Office of the Vice Provost for Research. 2021-08-19. viceprovost.tufts.edu.
  2. Apoorva Mandavilli Joining Health and Science . April 16, 2020 . The New York Times company website.
  3. Web site: Award-winning science journalist is UW-Madison writer in residence . Jordan Schelling . Wisconsin Newspaper Association . April 4, 2019.
  4. News: Chris Barncard . Science journalist Mandavilli is UW–Madison writer in residence . April 2, 2019 . University of Wisconsin–Madison.
  5. Web site: When Measles Arrives: Breaking Down the Anatomy of Containment . Apoorva Mandavilli . . April 19, 2019.
  6. https://www.spectrumnews.org/ Spectrumnews.org
  7. Web site: Apoorva Mandavilli . Nidhi Subbaraman . October 15, 2014 . Culture Dish: Promoting Diversity in Science Writing . Scientific American Voices blog.