Amy Maxmen, PhD, is an award-winning science journalist who covers public health, health policy, genomics and biomedicine. She’s reported on Ebola, HIV, and other diseases around the world, including in the United States, Congo, Nigeria, Myanmar and Sudan. Her writing often focuses on inequities that compromise people’s wellbeing. Her investigative pieces hold governments to account. Maxmen has written for the New York Times, Nature and Wired, among others. She’s currently a public health correspondent at KFF Health News. Her work has been supported by several grants from the Pulitzer Center, a 2020 MIT Knight Science Journalism fellowship, and a 2022-23 press fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations. She earned a doctorate in evolutionary biology from Harvard University and lives in New York City.
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