Yasmeen Abutaleb

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Yasmeen Abutaleb
Alma mater University of Maryland, College Park
OccupationHealth Policy Reporter
Years active2014-present
Employer The Washington Post

Yasmeen Abutaleb is a New York Times best selling author [1] [2] and journalist who was the national health policy reporter and as of August 4, 2022 is a White House reporter for The Washington Post. [3]

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Education

Abutaleb graduated from Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland [4] in 2010, where she first learned about journalism on their newspaper, the Black and White.

Abutaleb received a B.S. in microbiology and a B.A. in journalism from University of Maryland in 2014. She served as the editor-in-chief of the school's newspaper, The Diamondback from 2012-2013. [5]

Career

Abutaleb started her career covering health care for Reuters, focusing on the Affordable Care Act, drug pricing and federal health programs. [6]

In 2016, she was one of three lead reporters on a five-part investigative series detailing the rising threat of antibiotic-resistant infections. [7] [8]

She joined The Washington Post in 2019 as a national reporter covering health policy. She focuses on the Department of Health and Human Services and health care in politics. [9]

Throughout her career, Abutaleb has reported on the opioid crisis, [10] changes to Medicaid [11] and how politics influence health policies. [12]

She has appeared on Washington Week, [13] C-SPAN [14] and MSNBC. [15] [16] [17]

Works

In June 2021, [18] Abutaleb and Damian Paletta co-authored “Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History,” a book detailing the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in America. [19] [20]

The book most notably reveals that President Trump considered displacing infected passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise ship at Guantánamo Bay, [21] and that the severity of President Trump's coronavirus infection was far worse than he originally let on. [22] [23] [24] [25]

References

  1. ↑ "The New York Times Best Sellers". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  2. ↑ "Yasmeen Abutaleb". globalaffairs.org. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
  3. ↑ "Yasmeen Abutaleb; National reporter focusing on health policy". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  4. ↑ "Graduations Begin June 1". Montgomery County Public Schools. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
  5. ↑ Admin, DBK (January 1000). "Diamondback's new editor in chief named". The Diamondback. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  6. ↑ "Yasmeen Abutaleb, Reuters". Reuters .
  7. ↑ McNeill, Ryan; Nelson, Deborah; Abutaleb, Yasmeen. "'Superbug' scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising human toll". Reuters . Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  8. ↑ Allen, Marshall (19 September 2016). "The Hidden Toll of Drug-Resistant Superbugs" . Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  9. ↑ WashPostPR. "Yasmeen Abutaleb joins National Desk as a health policy reporter". Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  10. ↑ Abutaleb, Yasmeen. "As Trumpcare health bill languishes in politics, former opioid abusers cling to lifeline". Reuters. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  11. ↑ Abutaleb, Yasmeen. "Trump administration to reject generous Medicaid expansion funding for Utah". Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  12. ↑ "Yasmeen Abutaleb, National Health Policy Reporter". PBS. Archived from the original on March 4, 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  13. ↑ "President Biden Visits Surfside After Deadly Collapse". PBS. 2 July 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  14. ↑ "Yasmeen Abutaleb on the Affordable Care Act". C-SPAN. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  15. ↑ "'So many missteps': Inside Trump WH's handling of the coronavirus". MSNBC. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  16. ↑ "Transcript: The Rachel Maddow Show, 6/29/21". MSNBC. Retrieved 2021-07-08.[ dead link ]
  17. ↑ https://www.c-span.org/video/?432749-3/yasmeen-abutaleb-affordable-care-act
  18. ↑ Kurtzleben, Danielle. "The 1st Wave Of Post-Trump Books Arrives. And They Fight To Make Sense Of The Chaos". NPR. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  19. ↑ Washington Post Live. "Trump's Coronavirus Infection Was Much Worse Than We Knew". Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  20. ↑ Betancourt, Sarah (23 June 2021). "Trump hoped Covid-19 would 'take out' former aide John Bolton, book claims". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  21. ↑ Szalai, Jennifer (28 June 2021). "Reliving a Year of Death, as Havoc Reigned in the White House". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  22. ↑ Saletan, William (25 June 2021). "Trump's Coronavirus Infection Was Much Worse Than We Knew". Slate. Retrieved 2021-07-06.
  23. ↑ Abutaleb, Yasmeen; Paletta, Damian (2021-06-29). Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History. HarperCollins. ISBN   978-0-06-306607-6. OCLC   1225066847.
  24. ↑ Abutaleb, Yasmeen; Paletta, Damian; Stead Sellers, Frances (29 June 2021). "Yasmeen Abutaleb & Damian Paletta discuss their new book "Nightmare Scenario"". Washington Post Live . Retrieved 30 June 2021– via YouTube.
  25. ↑ Abutaleb, Yasmeen; Paletta, Damian; Stead Sellers, Frances. "Transcript: Yasmeen Abutaleb & Damian Paletta, "Nightmare Scenario"". Washington Post Live . Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
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