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

Apoorva Mandavilli is an American investigative journalist whose work has focused on medical science.[1] During the COVID-19 pandemic, she joined The New York Times as a health and science writer.[2] 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.[3][4][5]

Mandavilli is known for her work on autism, most notably being the founding editor-in-chief of Spectrum News, an online resource for the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative.[6] She is also a co-founder of Culture Dish, an organization dedicated to enhancing diversity in science journalism, and is the founding chair of the Diversity Committee for the National Association of Science Writers.[7]

Mandavilli was the 2019 winner of the Victor L. Cohn award for scientific journalism.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Apoorva Mandavilli | Tufts Office of the Vice Provost for Research". viceprovost.tufts.edu. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  2. ^ "Apoorva Mandavilli Joining Health and Science". The New York Times company website (Press release). April 16, 2020.
  3. ^ Jordan Schelling (April 4, 2019). "Award-winning science journalist is UW-Madison writer in residence". Wisconsin Newspaper Association.
  4. ^ Chris Barncard (April 2, 2019). "Science journalist Mandavilli is UW–Madison writer in residence". University of Wisconsin–Madison.
  5. ^ Apoorva Mandavilli (April 19, 2019). "When Measles Arrives: Breaking Down the Anatomy of Containment". Undark Magazine.
  6. ^ Spectrumnews.org website
  7. ^ Apoorva Mandavilli; Nidhi Subbaraman (October 15, 2014). "Culture Dish: Promoting Diversity in Science Writing". Scientific American Voices blog.

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