Passionate investigative journalist and author whose dynamic, award-winning works investigate the intersection of science, human rights and politics

“… fascinating book, elegantly written and superbly well-researched…”
- Nina Munk, Vanity Fair Contributing Editor, referencing The Fever
"Tour-de-force history...riveting."
–New York Times, referencing The Fever

“Fascinating, mordant...”
- Publisher’s Weekly, referencing The Fever
"… recall(s) popular science writers such as Steven Pinker and Stephen Jay Gould…”
-Michael Schaub, NPR

• Investigative journalist and author of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books on science, human rights and international politics
• Her latest book, The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years, has been described by international malaria expert Malcolm Molyneux as "thrilling" and "astonishing"
• Her 2006 drug industry exposé, The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients, has been hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a tautly argued study…a trenchant exposé…meticulously researched and packed with documentary evidence," and as "important [and] powerful" by The New England
Journal of Medicine.