Apoorva Mandavilli | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Education | |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | The New York Times |
| Known for | medical science articles |
| Website | apoorvamandavilli |
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, an online publication that stemmed from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative and is now part of The Transmitter . [6] She co-founded 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]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mandavilli stated that the lab leak theory was a conspiracy theory rooted in racism [8] [9] , which she later deleted from her social media posts after scientific and security experts concluded it to be the most likely source of the outbreak [10] [11] [12] [13] .
Mandavilli was the 2019 winner of the Victor L. Cohn award for scientific journalism. [1] She grew up in Southern India and speaks four Indian languages. She came to the United States to attend collage at age 17. [14]