Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, Pulitzer prize finalist, medical doctor and author of nine books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, for adult and young readers. Dr. Yasmin served as an officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she investigated outbreaks in maximum-security prisons, border towns and hospitals, and served as strategic health advisor to foreign governments. As a journalist, she covered Ebola, Zika, Covid and the rise of anti-vaccine movements as a CNN medical analyst from 2014-2021 and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for coverage of a mass shooting when she was a staff writer at The Dallas Morning News. Dr. Yasmin's unique combination of expertise as a physician, journalist and science communicator has been called upon by the Vatican, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and the White House. Dr. Yasmin is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative and clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University. Her reporting appears in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, WIRED, Scientific American, and on the BBC, NBC and other networks. She is the recipient of two awards from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship from Stanford University, and the Ferris Journalism Fellowship from the University of California Berkeley’s Center for the Science of Psychedelics. Yasmin trained in journalism at the University of Toronto and medicine at the University of Cambridge.