Biography:Seema Yasmin

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Seema Yasmin
Born
Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England
Alma mater
Scientific career
Institutions

Seema Yasmin is a British-American physician, writer and science communicator based at Stanford University. She is Director of Research and Education at the Stanford Health Communication Initiative.[1] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Yasmin helped to debunk myths about the coronavirus.

Education and early career

Yasmin was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England and raised in London to a family of Indian and Burmese ancestry.[2][3][4] Her mother, Yasmin Halima, was born in India and is a Distinguished Careers Institute fellow who works on women's health.[5] At the age of seventeen, Yasmin decided that she wanted to take her mother's first name as her surname, and had her name changed with a lawyer.[5] Yasmin trained in biochemistry at Queen Mary University of London and graduated in 2005.[6] She moved to the University of Cambridge to complete a graduate programme in medicine.[7] She started her medical career in the National Health Service, working at Homerton University Hospital for one year. In 2010 Yasmin was awarded a University of California, Los Angeles fellowship to train in clinical research in Botswana.[8] She moved to the United States with her mother.[5] In 2011, Yasmin joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service[9] as a "disease detective" at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she studied outbreaks of disease in prisons, border towns and American Indian reservations.[10] Whilst studying an outbreak of flesh-eating bacteria on the Navajo Nation, Yasmin realised the power of effective science communication, and realised that she wanted to use journalism to shift public policy.[5]

Career

In 2013 Yasmin was made a Dalla Lana Global Journalism Fellow at the University of Toronto.[11] Here she focussed on telling the stories of epidemics in an effort to encourage others to learn from tragedy.[12] Soon after completing her fellowship, Yasmin joined The Dallas Morning News as a reporter.[7][13] Her work there included coverage of the Ebola crisis in Dallas and the epidemic of gun violence in the US.[14][15] She was a medical analyst for CNN, and had a weekly medical segment on television news partner NBC 5 DFW.[7] She held a simultaneous position as Professor of Public Health at the University of Texas at Dallas.[16][8] Yasmin delivered the 2016 University of Texas at Austin McGovern Lecture, where she discussed the lessons she had learned reporting from public health emergencies.[17]

Yasmin joined Stanford University as a John S. Knight Fellow in 2017. There she investigated the spread of misinformation and pseudoscience during epidemics.[18] As part of this fellowship, Yasmin started working with Wired to debunk pseudoscience and misinformation on YouTube. She delivered a talk at the TEDx OakLawn event in 2018. In 2019 Yasmin was appointed as Director of the Stanford University Health Communication Initiative.[5]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Yasmin used social media, podcasts,[19] and popular science articles to better inform the public about the coronavirus disease.[20][21][22] She is also interested in the "spread of myths and hoaxes and rumors and outright lies about vaccines".[23] Yasmin became one of the most trusted public health experts on social media.[24] She used webinars to teach students about how to report responsibly on medical emergencies.[25][26] In an interview with Bumble, Yasmin explained how to date during the pandemic.[27] A collection of her essays on health and medical misinformation from her newspaper column “Debunked” was published in 2021 as Viral BS : medical myths and why we fall for them.[28]

Her second book, Muslim Women Are Everything, started as a conversation on Twitter and ended as a six-figure book deal.[29]

Selected publications

Peer-reviewed scientific papers

Selected works

Awards and honours

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Seema Yasmin". John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford. https://jsk.stanford.edu/fellows/class-of-2018/seema-yasmin/. 
  2. ↑ @DoctorYasmin (4 July 2020). "And George Eliot. Since I was born in Nuneaton and still haven't read Middlemarch". https://twitter.com/DoctorYasmin/status/1279412184506720256. 
  3. ↑ "Former Dallas journalist's tweet-turned-essay on 'Muslim women do things' earns six-figure book deal". The Dallas Morning News. 16 May 2019. https://www.dallasnews.com/arts/books/2019/05/16/former-dallas-journalists-tweet-turned-essay-muslim-women-things-earns-six-figure-book-deal. 
  4. ↑ Yasmin, Seema (2020). Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-4214-4040-8. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "Q&A: mother and daughter Yasmin Halima and Seema Yasmin". 2019-01-30. https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/01/30/qa-mother-and-daughter-yasmin-halima-and-seema-yasmin/. 
  6. ↑ "Cambridge health specialist joins The Dallas Morning News" (in en). http://snpa.org/stories/cambridge-health-specialist-joins-the-dallas-morning-news,26559. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Seema Yasmin | Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy". https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/profile/yasmin-seema-2/. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "CNN medical analyst, Dallas Morning News reporter, Munk School graduate" (in en). https://www.utoronto.ca/news/cnn-medical-analyst-dallas-morning-news-reporter-munk-school-graduate. 
  9. ↑ Yasmin, Seema (2020-02-29). "The CDC's 'Disease Detectives' Are Our Front-Line Defense Against Coronavirus" (in en-US). Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/the-cdcs-disease-detectives-are-our-front-line-defense-against-coronavirus-960102/. Retrieved 2020-05-11. 
  10. ↑ "Seema Yasmin's Profile | Stanford Profiles" (in en). https://profiles.stanford.edu/seema-yasmin. 
  11. ↑ "The Dalla Lana Fellowship in Global Journalism — at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health". http://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/journalism/. 
  12. ↑ Laughery, Chris. "In The Moment ... For Every Epidemic, A Story: Seema Yasmin & Communicating About Disease" (in en). https://listen.sdpb.org/post/moment-every-epidemic-story-seema-yasmin-communicating-about-disease. 
  13. ↑ "Why a doctor joined the Dallas Morning News as a reporter" (in en). 2014-07-21. https://www.poynter.org/news/why-doctor-joined-dallas-morning-news-reporter. 
  14. ↑ "Brit 'Disease Detective' Helps Ebola-Hit Dallas" (in en-GB). Sky News. https://news.sky.com/story/brit-disease-detective-helps-ebola-hit-dallas-10386429. 
  15. ↑ "Ebola Survivors" (in en). 2016-02-03. https://pulitzercenter.org/projects/ebola-survivors. 
  16. ↑ "Public Health Professor Brings CDC Experience, Expertise - News Center - The University of Texas at Dallas". https://www.utdallas.edu/news/2014/10/10-31232_Public-Health-Professor-Brings-CDC-Experience-Expe_story-wide.html. 
  17. ↑ "McGovern Lecture: From Ebola to Zika: Lessons learned from reporting on public health emergencies - Texas Today: UT Events & Announcements Calendar" (in en). https://calendar.utexas.edu/event/mcgovern_lecture_from_ebola_to_zika_lessons_learned_from_reporting_on_public_health_emergencies#.Xrk4yBNKjx4. 
  18. ↑ "Seema Yasmin" (in en). https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/users/seema-yasmin. 
  19. ↑ Intercepted (2020-04-22). "Intercepted Podcast: Coronavirus and the Radical Religious Right's Bumbling Messiah" (in en-US). https://theintercept.com/2020/04/22/coronavirus-and-the-radical-religious-rights-bumbling-messiah/. 
  20. ↑ "Dr. Seema Yasmin Debunks Coronavirus Myths" (in en). https://www.wired.com/video/watch/dr-seema-yasmin-debunks-coronavirus-myths. 
  21. ↑ "What's a Pandemic? Your Coronavirus Questions, Answered" (in en). Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. https://www.wired.com/story/whats-a-pandemic/. Retrieved 2020-05-10. 
  22. ↑ "How Covid-19 immunity compares to other diseases | WIRED Middle East". 19 April 2020. https://wired.me/science/health/covid-19-immunity/. 
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Ross, Martha. "Stanford doctor and author fights medical misinformation in time of COVID-19". The Mercury News. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/24/stanford-doctor-and-author-fights-medical-misinformation-in-time-of-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR3aJnUVVTc8O3b6691nd_31PSp6eDy_wHeQr30r5gRRpjSHm7gtiBdg-iI. 
  24. ↑ "Who Are Your Trusted Sources on COVID-19?" (in en). https://today.duke.edu/2020/04/who-are-your-trusted-sources-covid-19. 
  25. ↑ "On-Demand Student Webinar: Responsible Reporting on Epidemics with Dr. Seema Yasmin" (in en). 2020-04-08. https://pulitzercenter.org/blog/demand-student-webinar-responsible-reporting-epidemics-dr-seema-yasmin. 
  26. ↑ MLive.com (2020-02-03). "Stanford doctor talks coronavirus, everything you need to know" (in en). https://www.mlive.com/life/2020/02/stanford-doctor-talks-coronavirus-everything-you-need-to-know.html. 
  27. ↑ "Bumble - How to Date During Coronavirus, According to an Epidemiologist". https://bumble.com/the-buzz/datingduringcrisis. 
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Yasmin, Seema (2021). Viral BS : medical myths and why we fall for them. Baltimore. ISBN 978-1-4214-4040-8. OCLC 1153340618. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1153340618. 
  29. ↑ "Former Dallas journalist's tweet-turned-essay on 'Muslim women do things' earns six-figure book deal" (in en). 2019-05-16. https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/books/2019/05/16/former-dallas-journalist-s-tweet-turned-essay-on-muslim-women-do-things-earns-six-figure-book-deal/. 
  30. ↑ Ngugi, E. N.; Roth, E.; Mastin, Theresa; Nderitu, M. G.; Yasmin, Seema (2012-09-01). "Female sex workers in Africa: Epidemiology overview, data gaps, ways forward". SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS 9 (3): 148–153. doi:10.1080/17290376.2012.743825. ISSN 1729-0376. PMID 23237069. 
  31. ↑ Regan, Joanna J.; Traeger, Marc S.; Humpherys, Dwight; Mahoney, Dianna L.; Martinez, Michelle; Emerson, Ginny L.; Tack, Danielle M.; Geissler, Aimee et al. (2015-06-01). "Risk Factors for Fatal Outcome From Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in a Highly Endemic Area—Arizona, 2002–2011" (in en). Clinical Infectious Diseases 60 (11): 1659–1666. doi:10.1093/cid/civ116. ISSN 1058-4838. PMID 25697742. 
  32. ↑ Yasmin, Seema. (2018). Impatient Dr. Lange : One Man's Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic.. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-2662-4. OCLC 1055272454. http://worldcat.org/oclc/1055272454. 
  33. ↑ Joep Lange Institute (2018-08-31), Seema Yasmin introduces her book The Impatient Dr. Lange, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch4_tu_kA70, retrieved 2018-11-01 
  34. ↑ "Seema Yasmin" (in en-US). https://www.harpercollins.com/author/. <ref>Yasmin, Seema; Azim, Fahmida (2020). Muslim women are everything : stereotype-shattering stories of courage, inspiration, and adventure. HARPERCOLLINS. ISBN 978-0-06-294703-1. OCLC 1111254482. http://worldcat.org/oclc/1111254482. 
  35. ↑ "Seema Yasmin" (in en-US). https://www.harpercollins.com/author/. 
  36. ↑ "From Liberia, Ebola Survivors Report They Are Still Afflicted with Disabling Symptoms" (in en). https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/from-liberia-ebola-survivors-report-they-are-still-afflicted-with-disabling-symptoms/. 
  37. ↑ "Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference awards $18,000 in cash prizes in writing competitions". https://news.unt.edu/news-releases/mayborn-literary-nonfiction-conference-awards-18000-cash-prizes-writing-competitions-0. 
  38. ↑ "2016 Lone Star EMMY Nominations | National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences – Lone Star" (in en-US). http://lonestaremmy.org/awards/archives/2016-lone-star-emmy-nominations/. 
  39. ↑ parks, seema yasmin,scott friedman,eva (2015-11-16). "Hidden Threat: The Kissing Bug and Chagas disease" (in en). http://interactives.dallasnews.com/2015/tropical-diseases. 
  40. ↑ "Seema Yasmin GRANTEE". Pulitzer Center. https://pulitzercenter.org/people/seema-yasmin?fbclid=IwAR32inB9cp2NLrKZcnOwC8AJc85HxfR3kQSVC1s3qE-jsH4jPaMx8Uk95JU. 



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