Sonia Shah
Investigative journalist and author
Sonia Shah is an American investigative journalist and author who writes about science, global health and human rights. Her books include Pandemic and The Next Great Migration.
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American Born 1969 in New York City, United States
About Sonia Shah
Sonia Shah was born in 1969 in New York City. Her articles and books deal with corporate power, global health and human rights. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker and Scientific American, among other outlets. Pandemic was a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science/Technology. The Next Great Migration was a finalist for the PEN/EO Wilson Prize. Her earlier book The Fever was long-listed for the Royal Society's Winton Prize. Shah is a Guggenheim fellow, and a talk she gave at TED about malaria has been watched over a million times. She received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant for her work on The Imaginary Wall, her sixth book.