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    • Great Podversations: In conversation with Caitlin Dickerson
    • National Book Festival 2021: In conversation with David Nasaw
    • VOX Unexplainable: How do animals know where to go?
    • NPR Fresh Air: on migration
    • PRI’s The World: Could migration be a solution to the climate crisis?
    • CNN Fareed Zakaria: on coronavirus and environmental disruption
    • Pulitzer Center Webinar: Migration and Contagions
    • TED Connects: How to make pandemics optional, not inevitable
    • In conversation with Krish Vignarajah, LIRS
    • Bernie Sanders Coronavirus Roundtable
    • Democracy Now!: on climate and coronavirus
    • TNI: Building an Internationalist Response to COVID19
    • WNYC: on coronavirus and xenophobia
    • NPR: Fresh Air (on pandemics)
    • CNN: GPS with Fareed Zakaria
    • CSPAN: BookTV talk on PANDEMIC
    • VICE: Motherboard “Symptomatic”
    • TEDMED, Washington DC September 2014
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    • NPR: Fresh Air (on malaria)
    • NPR: RadioLab
    • NPR: To The Point
    • Pulitzer Center: Meet Journalist Sonia Shah
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    • The Next Great Migration
    • Pandemic
      • The Critics on PANDEMIC
    • The Fever
    • The Body Hunters
    • Crude
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    • New York Times Magazine: The Animals Are Talking
    • The New Yorker: The Case for Free-Range Lab Mice
    • New York Times Magazine: Animals infecting humans is scary. It’s worse when we infect them back.
    • New York Times Magazine: How Far Does Wildlife Roam?
    • The Nation: First Came the Hurricane, Then Came the Campaign of Terror
    • The Nation: How to define a plague
    • Foreign Affairs: Climate change will drive people across borders
    • The Nation: Think exotic animals are to blame for the coronavirus? Think again.
    • More articles
      • Coronavirus & News
      • The Nation: How Trump is going to get away with a pandemic
      • TIME: The Pandemic of Xenophobia and Scapegoating
      • Yale e360: Native or invasive species? The distinction blurs as the world warms
      • The Nation: Do the Olympics Actually Make the World Less Healthy?
      • TED: How microbes influence your love life
      • Foreign Affairs: Refugees and Greece’s Health Care Crisis
      • Washington Post: How foreclosed homes threaten public health in the age of Zika
      • The Nation: Welcome to the New Age of Contagions
      • New York Times: Chickens, China, and Climate Change
      • The Atlantic: How Cities Shape Epidemics
      • Foreign Affairs: Cholera Epidemic in Syria
      • Scientific American: Mapping Cholera
      • Scientific American: Could Monkeypox Take Over Where Smallpox Left Off?
      • The Atlantic: The Super-resistant Bacteria that Has India “Hell Scared”
      • Foreign Affairs: Mass Consumption Is What Ails Us
      • THE NATION: It’s time to tell a new story about coronavirus
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Selected as a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in General Non-fiction
At the 74th National Book Awards Dinner and Ceremony, November 15, 2023, after serving as a judge for the nonfiction award

Sonia’s latest book: The Next Great Migration

Sonia’s latest story in the New Yorker magazine

Sonia’s latest story in the New York Times Magazine

Sonia on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Sonia on HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, February 15, 2021 episode, "The Next Pandemic"

Sonia on CNN with Fareed Zakaria

http://soniashah.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sonia-on-fareed-zakaria-may-17-2020.mp4

Sonia on Coronavirus and Habitat Loss on Democracy Now!

http://soniashah.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ss-on-democracy-now.mp4

Sonia on Bernie Sanders’ Coronavirus Roundtable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1KUFEsNz1c

TED Connects: How to make pandemics like COVID-19 optional, not inevitable

Ted Talks

"How Unhealthy Paradigms Become Contagious"

"Three Reasons We Still Haven't Got Rid of Malaria"

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