Sonia Shah

Sonia Shah is a science journalist and the prize-winning author of Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond, a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and a finalist for the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in science/technology, the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the National Association of Science Writers' Science in Society Award. She has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and many others. Her TED talk, “Three Reasons We Still Haven't Gotten Rid of Malaria,” has been viewed by more than one million people around the world. She lives in Baltimore.