Education
B.A. in scientific writing, University of California at San Diego, 1981

Work Experience

1984-85 Voice of America, Newswriter, Special English
1986-1990	Washington City Paper, Senior Editor
1990-Present Science, Contributing Correspondent
1993-1999	Science, Staff Writer
2010-2011, Wave Lines, Editor
1980-Present Freelance 

Articles have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, Washington Post (newspaper and magazine), New York Times (newspaper and magazine), Outside, Smithsonian, Slate, Technology Review, New Republic, Washington Monthly, Talk, Discover, Surfer, Wave Lines, Wired, Glamour and other publications.

Broadcast experience includes writing and voicing stories for Voice of America, National Public Radio, Slate V, Science videos, and Reporter’s Notebook (webcast by Kaiser Family Foundation from international AIDS conferences). Consultant on PBS documentary “Ending AIDS” (based on Shots in the Dark). Also interviewed on NPR’s Terry Gross, Diane Rehm, Weekend Edition, Marketplace and Science Friday; Newshour with Jim Lehrer; “Today” show. 

Books

Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine (W.W. Norton: 2001)

Coming to Term: Uncovering the Truth about Miscarriage (Houghton Mifflin: 2005)

Almost Chimpanzee: Searching for What Makes Us Human, In Rainforests, Labs, Sanctuaries and Zoo (Henry Holt: 2010)

Anthologies

Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011, editor Mary Roach, “Fertility Rites” (Houghton Mifflin: 2011)

Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008, editor Jerome Groopman, “Zonkeys are Pretty Much My Favorite Animal” (Houghton Mifflin: 2008)

Smithsonian Magazine, Editor’s Choice, “Gone Up North, Gone Out West” (Smithsonian Books, 1990).

Awards

2011 Communications Awards, National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, Books, Finalist
Almost Chimpanzee

2011 ASM Public Communications Award
“HIV/AIDS: Eastern Europe,” Science (July 9, 2010)
American Society for Microbiology

Excellence in Media Award for Global Health, 2009
Newspaper, Magazine and Major Print Publication
“Money Matters,” Science (July 25, 2008)
Global Health Council

Science and Society Award 2002 
First Place Book, Shots in the Dark
National Association of Science Writers 

International Health Reporting 1998
First Place, “The Rise and Fall of Projet SIDA,” Science (November 28, 1997) 
Pan American Health Organization, 

Sigma Delta Chi Washington 1988 Dateline Award, 
First Place Features in Weekly
“A Tale of Two Vaccines.” Washington City Paper


Grants

2010, Open Society Institute’s Public Health Program to support “HIV/AIDS: Eastern Europe” package for Science
2008, Kaiser Family Foundation, minifellowship to support “Follow the Money” package on HIV/AIDS for Science
2006, Kaiser Family Foundation, travel for HIV/AIDS in Latin America and Caribbean for Science
2003/4, Kaiser Family Foundation, travel for HIV/AIDS in Asia package for Science
2000 Sloan Foundation, complete Shots in the Dark
Fund for Investigative Journalism, May 1992, research story for Atlantic Monthly on polio vaccines.
Fund for Investigative Journalism, July 1988, research “In Search of the Finders” for Washington City Paper

Teaching

2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
Teach-ins for journalists from developing countries at international AIDS conferences. National Press Foundation and Kaiser Family Foundation

2004-2010 
Workshop on Science Journalism, Latin American journalists, Institute of the Americas 

2005-2007 
California Health Endowment Fellowships program for California and Latin American journalists

1993-Present 
Guest lecturer at UC San Diego, Stanford University, Medical University of South Carolina, National Association of Science Writers, University of Southern California, UC Berkeley Journalism Graduate Program, UC Santa Cruz Science Writing Graduate Program, Harvard University, Emory University, University of British Columbia, Scripps Research Institute
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