Medical anthropologist specializing in global public health, information technology, bioscience, and allergies. 2019 NEH Public Scholar Award recipient. Professional writer with a BA in journalism. Inaugural Fellow at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony for creative nonfiction. Past Juniper scholarship winner for creative nonfiction.bExperienced ethnographic and archival researcher.
Don't freak out about the prospect of outbreaks in American cities—here's everything you need to know about how it would really go down.
A very basic AI is scanning every news report, every tweet, every blog, to look for instances where people are talking about things like fever and outbreak.