Apoorva Mandavilli

Apoorva Mandavilli is an American investigative journalist whose work has focused on medical science.

Apoorva Mandavilli
NationalityAmerican
Education
OccupationJournalist
EmployerThe New York Times
Known formedical science articles
Websiteapoorvamandavilli.com

She joined The New York Times as health and science writer during the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] 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.[2][3][4]

She became known for her work on autism, most notably being founding editor-in-chief of Spectrum News, an online resource for Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative.[5] She also co-founded Culture Dish, an organization dedicated to enhancing diversity in science journalism, and was the founding chair of the Diversity Committee for the National Association of Science Writers.[6]

Mandavilli was the 2019 winner of the Victor L. Cohn award for scientific journalism.

References
  1. "Apoorva Mandavilli Joining Health and Science". The New York Times company website (Press release). April 16, 2020.
  2. Jordan Schelling (April 4, 2019). "Award-winning science journalist is UW-Madison writer in residence". Wisconsin Newspaper Association.
  3. Chris Barncard (April 2, 2019). "Science journalist Mandavilli is UW–Madison writer in residence". University of Wisconsin–Madison.
  4. Apoorva Mandavilli (April 19, 2019). "When Measles Arrives: Breaking Down the Anatomy of Containment". Undark Magazine.
  5. Spectrumnews.org website
  6. Apoorva Mandavilli; Nidhi Subbaraman (October 15, 2014). "Culture Dish: Promoting Diversity in Science Writing". Scientific American Voices blog.
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