Author

Madeline Drexler

Madeline Drexler is editor of Harvard Public Health magazine and a senior fellow at Brandeis University’s Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. She is author of the 2014 book "A Splendid Isolation: Lessons on Happiness from the Kingdom of Bhutan." Her reporting from Bhutan has appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Tricycle, Saveur, "2015 Best American Travel Writing," and other publications. She was a 1996-1997 Knight Science Journalism Fellow and is the author of “Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections,” published by Penguin in 2003.

Why Bhutan’s Struggle for Press Freedom Matters

Why Bhutan’s Struggle for Press Freedom Matters

Imagine a country where reporters shy away from contentious issues, where journalism is considered a dead-end job, where the private sector rarely advertises through mass media, and where the mainstream…

Toppling the ‘Big Three’—Medical Care, Behavior and Genes

‘Unnatural Causes’ mixes reporting of research rarely featured in traditional news coverage with visual storytelling in the hope of sparking a health equity movement.

Spreading the News

RELATED ARTICLE“Toppling the ‘Big Three’—Medical Care, Behavior and Genes” – Madeline DrexlerDuring the past year, more than 400 outreach groups and other organizations have convened thousands of events centered on…

Public Health Reporting: After September 11th, It’s More Difficult

Important stories aren’t getting told, sources are hard to reach, and what was once public is now considered secret.