Seema Yasmin Wiki Bio: Age, Birthday, Husband, Married, Parents, Education, Net Worth,

Seema Yasmin is a 37 years old Emmy Award-winning journalist, poet, medical doctor, and an author.

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Seema Yasmin Professional Bio:

Dr, Seema’s bio on the official website of Stanford reads,

Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, poet, medical doctor, and author. Yasmin served as an officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she investigated disease outbreaks and was principal investigator on a number of CDC studies. Yasmin trained in journalism at the University of Toronto and in medicine at the University of Cambridge.

Yasmin was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news in 2017 with a team from The Dallas Morning News and recipient of an Emmy for her reporting on neglected diseases. She received two grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. In 2017, Yasmin was a John S. Knight Fellow in Journalism at Stanford University investigating the spread of health misinformation and disinformation during epidemics.

Previously she was a science correspondent at The Dallas Morning News, a medical analyst for CNN, and a professor of public health at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Her writing has earned awards and residencies from the Mid Atlantic Arts Council, Hedgebrook, the Millay Colony for the Arts and others. Her first book, The Impatient Dr. Lange (Johns Hopkins University Press, July 2018) is the biography of an AIDS doctor killed on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. Her second book, Debunked! Pseudoscience, Medical Myths and Why They Persist, is forthcoming in November 2019. A major title about women is forthcoming from HarperCollins in 2020.

Yasmin’s unique expertise in medicine, epidemics, and journalism has been called upon by The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, the Aspen Institute, Skoll Foundation, and others.

Seema Yasmin Honor and Reward

Listed down below are the honors and reward that Seema has been awarded till date,

• Mayborn Award for Literary Non-Fiction, Mayborn School of Journalism, University of North Texas. (2015)
• Mayborn Award for Literary Non-Fiction, Mayborn School of Journalism, University of North Texas (2016)
• Westfield Trust Prize for Academic Excellence, Queen Mary University of London (2005)
• Unit Commendation, United States Public Health Service (2014)
• Public Health Award for Media Excellence in Print Media, Texas Public Health Association (2015)