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Dr. Seema Yasmin

Director, Stanford Health Communication Initiative; Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University; Medical Analyst, CNN; Author and Medical Journalist at Stanford University

About me

Dr. Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, a medical doctor, and author of five books including Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them; Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure; and If God is a Virus, poems based on her reporting on the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Yasmin is a medical analyst for CNN and a correspondent for Condé Nast Entertainment. Her writing appears in the New York Times, WIRED, Rolling Stone, Scientific American, and other outlets. She is a two-time awardee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news. She teaches science storytelling and health journalism at Stanford University, where she is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative and clinical assistant professor of medicine.