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Seema Yasmin

Emmy Award-Winning Medical Journalist & CNN Analyst

Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning medical journalist, public health physician, professor, CNN analyst and author.

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Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning medical journalist, public health physician, professor, CNN analyst and author. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news reporting in 2017 for her reporting on a mass shooting. As a former officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she was deployed as strategic advisor to foreign governments, won awards from the United States Public Health Service for leading epidemic investigations, and was principal investigator for scientific studies on disease outbreaks and their long-term consequences. Yasmin trained in medicine at the University of Cambridge and in journalism at the University of Toronto. She practiced medicine in the UK’s National Health Service, completed a fellowship in mathematical modeling at UCLA and conducted disease modeling research in sub-Saharan Africa.

Yasmin trained in journalism at the University of Toronto and was a staff writer at The Dallas Morning News when Ebola arrived in Dallas during the West African Ebola crisis. She has covered epidemics of Ebola and Zika, and other science and medical topics, for news organizations including Rolling Stone, WIRED, Scientific American, BBC, CBC, ABC, NBC, Reuters, and others. In 2017, she was selected for the John S. Knight in Journalism Innovation at Stanford University where she studied the spread of misinformation and disinformation during epidemics. She has won two awards from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Yasmin is Director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine. She overseas research and education programs on epidemics of disease and the contagious nature of information. She teaches medical journalism to students and advanced communication skills to medical school faculty.

She is author of The Impatient Dr. Lange: One Man’s Fight to End a Global HIV Epidemic; Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration and Adventure; If God Is a Virus: The Ebola Poems; and What the Fact? Finding the Truth in All the Noise.

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What the Fact? Finding the Truth in All the Noise

Inside the Outbreaks

Misinfodemics

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Imperfect Heroes | Seema Yasmin | TEDxOakLawn
Doctor Debunks Medical Myths | WIRED

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