“The Animals Are Talking. What Does It Mean?” New York Times Magazine, September 20, 2023
“The Case for Free-Range Lab Mice.” The New Yorker magazine. February 18, 2023
“Animals That Infect Humans Are Scary. It’s Worse When We Infect Them Back.” New York Times Magazine, January 19, 2022
“Animal planet: How far does wildlife roam?” New York Times Magazine, January 17, 2021. Included in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022
“First came the hurricane, then came the campaign of terror,” The Nation, September 22, 2020
“Climate change will drive people across borders,” Foreign Affairs, July 29, 2020. Plus “Cracking Down on the Climate Displaced,” a photo slideshow of my reporting from post-Dorian Bahamas, with photos and videos by Kush Bulmer.
“It’s time to tell a new story about coronavirus–our lives depend on it,” The Nation, July 14, 2020
“Migration is our planet’s connective tissue,” The Big Issue, June 21, 2020
“Mass consumption is what ails us,” Foreign Affairs, April 17, 2020
“How Trump Is Going to Get Away with a Pandemic,” The Nation, March 31, 2020
Contributor, “Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How,” POLITICO magazine, March 19, 2020
“Think exotic animals are to blame for the coronavirus? Think again.” The Nation, February 18, 2020. Reprinted by Le Monde Diplomatique in French, Spanish, Farsi, and Portuguese.
“The Pandemic of Xenophobia and Scapegoating,” TIME magazine, February 3, 2020
“Native or invasive species? The distinction blurs as the world warms,” Yale e360, January 14, 2020. Reprinted on PBS Newshour, January 17, 2020 and Mother Jones magazine, February 1, 2020
“The coronavirus in context: a Q&A with Sonia Shah, author of Pandemic,” Talya Meyers, Direct Relief, January 31, 2020
“The fight against infectious diseases is still an uphill battle,” Science News, December 14, 2016
“Do the Olympics Actually Make the World Less Healthy?” The Nation, August 19, 2016
“How your microbes influence your love life,” TED.com, August 11, 2016
“How foreclosed homes and used tires can threaten public health in the age of Zika,” Washington Post, July 31, 2016
“Refugees and Greece’s Health Crisis,” Foreign Affairs, July 28, 2016
“From Zika to Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs: Welcome to the New Age of Contagions,” The Nation, June 16, 2016
“The Zika Virus: A Pandemic Like No Other?,” Signature Reads, February 10, 2016
“What You Get When You Mix Chickens, China, and Climate Change,” New York Times, February 5, 2016
“The Diet Myth, the Good Gut, and the Hidden Half of Nature,” New York Times, December 28, 2015
“The Next Cholera Epidemic: How the Disease Could Spread from Syria,” Foreign Affairs, November 10, 2015
“Les chemins du choléra, pour comprendre l’épidémie d’Ebola,” Le Monde (Paris), November 14, 2014
“Contagion in New York City: 1832,” Discourse in Progress, November 2, 2014
“The Toll of Cholera, in 1832 and in 2010,” Huffington Post, October 17, 2014
“Mapping Cholera: A Tale of Two Cities,” Scientific American, October 2, 2014
“Mapping Cholera,” Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, October 2014
“Tick Talk: An investigative project on Lyme Disease,” original website, Ottaway Visiting Professorship in Journalism, SUNY New Paltz, May 2, 2014
“A Cure for Africa’s Common Cold: Why Malaria Persists,” Foreign Affairs, October 24, 2013
“New threat from poxviruses,” Scientific American magazine, March 2013
“India’s Superhospitals and Superbugs,” Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris), December 2012
“Safari scalpel à New Delhi, ou les périls du tourisme médical,” Le Monde Dipomatique (Paris), December 2012
“Breeding Ground,” review of David Quammen’s Spillover, New York Times Book Review, October 21, 2012
“David Kato’s life and death in Uganda,” review of “Call Me Kuchu,” The Lancet, July 20, 2012
“Living in the shadows of modern medicine,” review of “Off Label,” The Lancet, June 2, 2012
“Starved for attention,” review of “The Hunger Games,” The Lancet, April 5, 2012
“A Global Crisis in the Making: Super-resistant Bacteria, Medical Tourism and India’s Poor,” Audio slideshow, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, February 28, 2012
“The Super-Resistant Bacteria That Has India ‘Hell Scared’” The Atlantic, January 26, 2012.
“Super-resistant bacteria, medical tourism, and India’s poor: a global health crisis in the making,” Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, January 18, 2012.
“Ted lecturer exploits African women and children,” Ms. magazine blog, March 8, 2010.
“Biotech on the Big Screen,” The Lancet, Volume 375, Issue 9714, Pages 543 – 544, 13 February 2010
“Behind Mass Die-offs, Pesticides Lurk as Culprit,” Yale Environment 360, January 7, 2010
“Climate and the Spread of New Diseases,” Yale Environment 360, October 15, 2009
“The perfect predator: malaria makes a comeback,” Orion magazine, November/December 2006
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