Author Science Writer Disease Detective Read More Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy-award winning journalist, author, medical doctor and professor. She trained in medicine at the University of Cambridge and in journalism at the University of Toronto.
Her first book, about her mentor who was killed on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, charts the course of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the life of a scientist who fought to end the outbreak.
Her second book, Debunked! dissects medical myths and pseudoscience and explores why we believe what we believe. Debunked! is released in 2019. She teaches science journalism and global health storytelling at Stanford University and is the founder of the Yasmin Scholarships.