Seema Yasmin Explained

Seema Yasmin
Caption:McGovern Lecture 2016
Birth Place:Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England

Seema Yasmin is a British-American physician, writer and science communicator based at Stanford University. She is Director of Research and Education at the Stanford Health Communication Initiative.[1] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Yasmin helped to debunk myths about the coronavirus.

Education and early career

Yasmin was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England and raised in London to a family of Indian and Burmese ancestry.[2] [3] [4] Her mother, Yasmin Halima, was born in India and is a Distinguished Careers Institute fellow who works on women's health.[5] At the age of seventeen, Yasmin decided that she wanted to take her mother's first name as her surname, and had her name changed with a lawyer. Yasmin trained in biochemistry at Queen Mary University of London and graduated in 2005.[6] She moved to the University of Cambridge to complete a graduate programme in medicine.[7] She started her medical career in the National Health Service, working at Homerton University Hospital for one year. In 2010 Yasmin was awarded a University of California, Los Angeles fellowship to train in clinical research in Botswana.[8] She moved to the United States with her mother. In 2011, Yasmin joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service[9] as a "disease detective" at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she studied outbreaks of disease in prisons, border towns and American Indian reservations.[10] Whilst studying an outbreak of flesh-eating bacteria on the Navajo Nation, Yasmin realised the power of effective science communication, and realised that she wanted to use journalism to shift public policy.

Career

In 2013 Yasmin was made a Dalla Lana Global Journalism Fellow at the University of Toronto.[11] Here she focussed on telling the stories of epidemics in an effort to encourage others to learn from tragedy.[12] Soon after completing her fellowship, Yasmin joined The Dallas Morning News as a reporter.[13] Her work there included coverage of the Ebola crisis in Dallas and the epidemic of gun violence in the US.[14] [15] She was a medical analyst for CNN, and had a weekly medical segment on television news partner NBC 5 DFW. She held a simultaneous position as Professor of Public Health at the University of Texas at Dallas.[16] [8] Yasmin delivered the 2016 University of Texas at Austin McGovern Lecture, where she discussed the lessons she had learned reporting from public health emergencies.[17]

Yasmin joined Stanford University as a John S. Knight Fellow in 2017. There she investigated the spread of misinformation and pseudoscience during epidemics.[18] As part of this fellowship, Yasmin started working with Wired to debunk pseudoscience and misinformation on YouTube. She delivered a talk at the TEDx OakLawn event in 2018. In 2019 Yasmin was appointed as Director of the Stanford University Health Communication Initiative.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Yasmin used social media, podcasts,[19] and popular science articles to better inform the public about the coronavirus disease.[20] [21] [22] She is also interested in the "spread of myths and hoaxes and rumors and outright lies about vaccines".[23] Yasmin became one of the most trusted public health experts on social media.[24] She used webinars to teach students about how to report responsibly on medical emergencies.[25] [26] In an interview with Bumble, Yasmin explained how to date during the pandemic.[27] A collection of her essays on health and medical misinformation from her newspaper column “Debunked” was published in 2021 as Viral BS : medical myths and why we fall for them.[28]

Her second book, Muslim Women Are Everything, started as a conversation on Twitter and ended as a six-figure book deal.[29]

Selected publications

Peer-reviewed scientific papers

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. News: Seema Yasmin. John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford. 2018-11-01.
  2. 1279412184506720256. DoctorYasmin. And George Eliot. Since I was born in Nuneaton and still haven't read Middlemarch . 4 July 2020.
  3. Web site: Former Dallas journalist's tweet-turned-essay on 'Muslim women do things' earns six-figure book deal . The Dallas Morning News. 16 May 2019. 30 May 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20190518201723/https://www.dallasnews.com/arts/books/2019/05/16/former-dallas-journalists-tweet-turned-essay-muslim-women-things-earns-six-figure-book-deal. 18 May 2019. dead.
  4. Book: Yasmin, Seema. Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them. 3. Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2020. 978-1-4214-4040-8.
  5. Web site: Q&A: mother and daughter Yasmin Halima and Seema Yasmin. 2019-01-30. The Stanford Daily. 2020-05-11.
  6. Web site: Cambridge health specialist joins The Dallas Morning News. Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. en. 2020-05-11.
  7. Web site: Seema Yasmin Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. munkschool.utoronto.ca. 2020-05-10.
  8. Web site: CNN medical analyst, Dallas Morning News reporter, Munk School graduate. University of Toronto News. en. 2020-05-10.
  9. The CDC's 'Disease Detectives' Are Our Front-Line Defense Against Coronavirus. Yasmin. Seema. 2020-02-29. Rolling Stone. en-US. 2020-05-11.
  10. Web site: Seema Yasmin's Profile Stanford Profiles. profiles.stanford.edu. en. 2020-05-10.
  11. Web site: The Dalla Lana Fellowship in Global Journalism — at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. www.dlsph.utoronto.ca. 2020-05-10.
  12. Web site: In The Moment ... For Every Epidemic, A Story: Seema Yasmin & Communicating About Disease. Laughery. Chris. listen.sdpb.org. en. 2020-05-10.
  13. Web site: Why a doctor joined the Dallas Morning News as a reporter. 2014-07-21. Poynter. en. 2018-11-01.
  14. News: Brit 'Disease Detective' Helps Ebola-Hit Dallas. en-GB. Sky News. 2018-11-01.
  15. Web site: Ebola Survivors. 2016-02-03. Pulitzer Center. en. 2020-05-10.
  16. Web site: Public Health Professor Brings CDC Experience, Expertise - News Center - The University of Texas at Dallas. www.utdallas.edu. 2018-11-01.
  17. Web site: McGovern Lecture: From Ebola to Zika: Lessons learned from reporting on public health emergencies - Texas Today: UT Events & Announcements Calendar. Texas Today: UT Events & Announcements Calendar. en. 2020-05-11.
  18. Web site: Seema Yasmin. Center for Health Journalism. en. 2020-05-10.
  19. Web site: Intercepted Podcast: Coronavirus and the Radical Religious Right's Bumbling Messiah. Intercepted. 2020-04-22. The Intercept. en-US. 2020-05-11.
  20. Web site: Dr. Seema Yasmin Debunks Coronavirus Myths. WIRED Videos. en. 2020-05-10.
  21. What's a Pandemic? Your Coronavirus Questions, Answered. en. Wired. 2020-05-10. 1059-1028.
  22. Web site: How Covid-19 immunity compares to other diseases WIRED Middle East. wired.me. 19 April 2020. 2020-05-11.
  23. Web site: Ross . Martha . Stanford doctor and author fights medical misinformation in time of COVID-19 . mercurynews.com . The Mercury News . 28 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210810230409/https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/24/stanford-doctor-and-author-fights-medical-misinformation-in-time-of-covid-19/ . 10 August 2021.
  24. Web site: Who Are Your Trusted Sources on COVID-19?. today.duke.edu. en. 2020-05-11.
  25. Web site: On-Demand Student Webinar: Responsible Reporting on Epidemics with Dr. Seema Yasmin. 2020-04-08. Pulitzer Center. en. 2020-05-10.
  26. Web site: Stanford doctor talks coronavirus, everything you need to know. MLive.com. 2020-02-03. mlive. en. 2020-05-10.
  27. Web site: Bumble - How to Date During Coronavirus, According to an Epidemiologist. Bumble. 2020-05-10.
  28. Book: Yasmin, Seema. Viral BS : medical myths and why we fall for them. 2021. 978-1-4214-4040-8. Baltimore. 1153340618.
  29. Web site: 2019-05-16 . Former Dallas journalist's tweet-turned-essay on 'Muslim women do things' earns six-figure book deal . 2020-05-10 . Dallas News . en.
  30. Ngugi. E. N.. Roth. E.. Mastin. Theresa. Nderitu. M. G.. Yasmin. Seema. 2012-09-01. Female sex workers in Africa: Epidemiology overview, data gaps, ways forward. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 9. 3. 148–153. 10.1080/17290376.2012.743825. 1729-0376. 4560463. 23237069.
  31. Regan. Joanna J.. Traeger. Marc S.. Humpherys. Dwight. Mahoney. Dianna L.. Martinez. Michelle. Emerson. Ginny L.. Tack. Danielle M.. Geissler. Aimee. Yasmin. Seema. Lawson. Regina. Williams. Velda. 2015-06-01. Risk Factors for Fatal Outcome From Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in a Highly Endemic Area—Arizona, 2002–2011. Clinical Infectious Diseases. en. 60. 11. 1659–1666. 10.1093/cid/civ116. 25697742. 4706357. 1058-4838. free.
  32. Book: Yasmin, Seema.. Impatient Dr. Lange : One Man's Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic.. 2018. Johns Hopkins University Press. 978-1-4214-2662-4. 1055272454.
  33. Web site: Seema Yasmin. HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher. en-US. 2020-05-10. 2020-04-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417175707/https://www.harpercollins.com/author/. dead.
  34. Web site: From Liberia, Ebola Survivors Report They Are Still Afflicted with Disabling Symptoms. Scientific American. en. 2020-05-11.
  35. Web site: Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference awards $18,000 in cash prizes in writing competitions. UNT News. 2020-05-10.
  36. Web site: 2016 Lone Star EMMY Nominations National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences – Lone Star. lonestaremmy.org. en-US. 2018-11-01.
  37. Web site: Hidden Threat: The Kissing Bug and Chagas disease. parks. seema yasmin,scott friedman,eva. 2015-11-16. interactives.dallasnews.com. en. 2020-05-10.
  38. Web site: Seema Yasmin GRANTEE . pulitzercenter.org . Pulitzer Center . 28 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210928023329/http://pulitzercenter.org/people/seema-yasmin . 28 September 2021.
  39. Web site: Seema Yasmin. HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher. en-US. 2020-05-10. 2020-04-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417175707/https://www.harpercollins.com/author/. dead. <ref>Book: Yasmin. Seema. Muslim women are everything : stereotype-shattering stories of courage, inspiration, and adventure. Azim. Fahmida. 2020. HARPERCOLLINS. 978-0-06-294703-1. 1111254482. [33]

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