Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, Pulitzer prize finalist, and a former officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she investigated outbreaks in maximum-security prisons, border towns, hospitals and other settings. Yasmin is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University, visiting professor of crisis management and communication at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, and a medical analyst for CNN.
Yasmin combines her expertise in epidemiology and communication to study evidence-based practices for effective health and science communication. As an Emerson Collective fellow, she studies the overlap of medical deserts and news deserts in the United States and the impact of the decimation of local news on public health and the spread of false scientific information.
The author of four books of non-fiction and poetry, Yasmin has received writing awards from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Mid-Atlantic Arts Council, and others. Her reporting appears in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, WIRED, Scientific American, and other outlets. She received her medical degree from the University of Cambridge and trained in journalism at the University of Toronto.