Apoorva Mandavilli

Apoorva Mandavilli is an American investigative journalist whose work has focused on medical science.[1] During the COVID-19 pandemic, she joined The New York Times as a health and science writer.[2] In the spring of 2019, she was writer-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin, where she joined a panel discussion on vaccine refusal while writing about containing a measles outbreak in Lowell, Massachusetts.[3][4][5] She claimed that the COVID-19 lab leak theory was "racist" and should no longer be talked about, but later backtracked and apologized for the statements after internal criticism from the New York Times.[6][7] In October 2021, she attracted criticism for publishing an article in the New York Times in which she grossly overstated the number of Covid-19 hospitalizations among children, claiming that 900,000 have been hospitalized, when the actual number was 63,000.[8]

Apoorva Mandavilli
Nationality	American
Education	New York University University of Wisconsin-Madison Augustana College
Occupation	Journalist
Employer	The New York Times
Known for	medical science articles
Website	apoorvamandavilli.com

Mandavilli is known for her work on autism, most notably being the founding editor-in-chief of Spectrum News, an online resource for the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative.[9] She is also a co-founder of Culture Dish, an organization dedicated to enhancing diversity in science journalism, and is the founding chair of the Diversity Committee for the National Association of Science Writers.[10]

Mandavilli was the 2019 winner of the Victor L. Cohn award for scientific journalism.[1]