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Occupation(s) | author, journalist |
Years active | since 1985 |
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Maryn McKenna is an American author and journalist. She has written for Nature, National Geographic, and Scientific American, and spoke on antibiotics at TED 2015. [1]
In 2009, McKenna received a Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship from The Journalism School at Columbia University. [2] In 2012, she was awarded an Ethics & Justice Investigative Journalism Fellowship at The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. [3] In 2013, she joined the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work on a Fellowship. [4]
McKenna has written for Nature, [5] Scientific American, Wired and the National Geographic, [3] and has been a staff reporter for The Cincinnati Enquirer, the Boston Herald and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. [6]
Her book Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service is about the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [7] Her book Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA is about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; [8] a review on the CDC website called it "an extensively researched and detailed review". [9]
Her article "Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future" is included in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014. [10]
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McKenna received a Byron H. Waksman Award for Excellence in the Public Communication of Life Sciences in 2013, and a Leadership Award from the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics in 2014. [13]
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Maryn McKenna is an American author and journalist. She has written for Nature, National Geographic, and Scientific American, and spoke on antibiotics at TED 2015. [1]
In 2009, McKenna received a Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship from The Journalism School at Columbia University. [2] In 2012, she was awarded an Ethics & Justice Investigative Journalism Fellowship at The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. [3] In 2013, she joined the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work on a Fellowship. [4]
McKenna has written for Nature, [5] Scientific American, Wired and the National Geographic, [3] and has been a staff reporter for The Cincinnati Enquirer, the Boston Herald and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. [6]
Her book Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service is about the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [7] Her book Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA is about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; [8] a review on the CDC website called it "an extensively researched and detailed review". [9]
Her article "Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future" is included in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014. [10]
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McKenna received a Byron H. Waksman Award for Excellence in the Public Communication of Life Sciences in 2013, and a Leadership Award from the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics in 2014. [13]