Year: 2012 (Page 2 of 2)

Santa Barbara, CA

April 18, 2012 / Sonia Shah

April 18, 2013. “The Fever.” 8 pm. Arts and Lectures Series, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Phoenix, AZ

April 17, 2012 / Sonia Shah

April 17, 2013. 8 pm. “The Body Hunters: Big Pharma’s Quest for Miracle Drugs and its Impact on the Health and Human Rights of the Poor.” Maricopa Community College, Phoenix, AZ.

Can "The Hunger Games" raise awareness about hunger? My review from The Lancet

April 6, 2012 / Sonia Shah

The Hunger Games, courtesy of Lionsgate

The World Food Program, among other anti-hunger groups, have teamed up with the film “The Hunger Games” to raise awareness about hunger (the real kind as opposed to the fictional, game-like version). Here’s my review of their efforts–and the film–from The Lancet.

My new story on antibiotic resistant bugs in India, in Foreign Affairs

March 29, 2012 / Sonia Shah

Photo by Sonia Shah

My new story on the emergence of a dangerous new form of antibiotic resistant bacteria in India, and how commercial concerns may be complicating efforts to tame it, appears in this week’s Foreign Affairs. Check it out at Foreign Affairs.

Also out: a nifty audio slideshow from my trip to India, on the website of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, which kindly provided funding for my reporting. Listen and watch here.

Pulitzer's video of me talking about my reporting in India

February 14, 2012 / Sonia Shah

My story on super-resistant bacteria in New Delhi, in The Atlantic

February 2, 2012 / Sonia Shah

Photo by Sonia Shah

This is the first of a series of reports on NDM-1 bacteria, bugs endowed with the ability to resist not only commonly used antibiotics but the last-resort IV antibiotics used only in hospitals. NDM-1 first emerged in New Delhi (and is, controversially, named after the city) and has since spread to over 35 countries, primarily in the bodies of medical tourists. I recently returned from a trip to New Delhi, and filed this report for The Atlantic and the Pulitizer Center on Crisis Reporting, which funded my trip. Photos, video, an audio slideshow, and more stories in Foreign Affairs and Le Monde Diplomatique are forthcoming. Stay tuned.