American journalist
Sheri Fink is an American journalist who writes about health, medicine and science.
She received the 2010
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting "for a story that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital’s exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina".
[1] She was also a member of The New York Times reporting team that received the 2015
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage of the 2014
Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa .
[2]
Team members named by The Times were
Pam Belluck ,
Helene Cooper , Fink, Adam Nossiter,
Norimitsu Onishi ,
Kevin Sack , and Ben C. Solomon.
[3]
As of April 2014, Fink is a staff reporter for
The New York Times .
[4]
Early life and education
Fink was born in
Detroit . In 1990, Fink graduated from the
University of Michigan with a degree in psychology.
[5] Fink received a Ph.D. in
Neuroscience in 1998 and an M.D. in 1999 from
Stanford University .
[6]
Fink went to assist refugees on the Kosovo-Macedonia border during the war in Kosovo
[7] instead of attending her medical school graduation.
Career
After graduating from college, Fink became involved in humanitarian aid work in disaster and war zones with the
International Medical Corps , including
Kosovo ,
Iraq ,
Bosnia ,
Macedonia and
Mozambique .
[7] She also developed a career in journalism.
[7] Fink is a senior fellow with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, a senior Future Tense fellow at
New America Foundation , and formerly, a staff reporter at
ProPublica in New York.
[6] Her articles have appeared in publications such as the
New York Times ,
Discover and
Scientific American .
Fink has contributed to the public radio news magazine
Public Radio International (PRI) 's
The World covering a number of topics including the global
HIV/AIDS
pandemic and international
aid in development , conflict and disaster settings.
[8] In 2007, she taught a course at
Tulane University on "public health issues in crisis situations".
[9] She was a 2007–2008 Kaiser Media Fellow with the
Kaiser Family Foundation .
[6]
In August 2009 Fink published The Deadly Choices at Memorial , an investigative piece, in the
New York Times Magazine .
[10] The article, which distilled over two years of reporting, described the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina at
Memorial Medical Center in
New Orleans in 2005.
[11]
Awards
Sheri Fink in 2016 at the
Edmond J. Safra
Center for Ethics at Harvard University
In March 2010 The Deadly Choices at Memorial was awarded second place in the "Large Magazine" category of the
Association of Health Care Journalists 's (AHCJ) Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism.
[12] The following month Fink was awarded a
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for the article.
[13]
The article also won a 2010
National Magazine Award for Reporting , and the 2010 Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma given by the
Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism .
[14] She was a finalist for the 2010
Michael Kelly Award.
[15]
Fink's 2013 book
Five Days at Memorial , which expanded on her 2009 article, won the
National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2013),
[16]
[17] the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (2013),
[18] the
Ridenhour Book Prize (2014),
[19] and
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award (2015).
[20]
[21]
Books
References
^
"The 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Investigative Reporting" .
The Pulitzer Prizes . 2010. Retrieved February 21, 2014 .
^
"2015 Pulitzer Prizes" . www.pulitzer.org .
^ Times, The New York (20 April 2015).
"2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music" – via NYTimes.com.
^ Sullivan, Margaret (January 11, 2014).
"The Times, From the Top: Looking Ahead" .
New York Times . Retrieved February 22, 2014 .
^ Fink, Sheri (29 Oct 2013).
"NYT Op-Ed by Sheri L. Fink, '90 BS Psychology, on the Lessons of Storms Katrina and Sandy" . Ann Arbor: LSA University of Michigan Department of Psychology. Retrieved 22 February 2014 .
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a
b
c
"Sheri Fink, MD, PhD" . Harvard Humanitarian Initiative .
Harvard University . 2013. Retrieved February 22, 2014 .
^
a
b
c Neeper, Shawnee (30 May 2010).
"Suture or Shoot" . Stanford Medicine . Stanford. Archived from
the original on 2010-08-06. Retrieved 21 February 2014 .
^
"ProPublica — ProPublica" . ProPublica . November 2012.
^
Marzorati, Gerald (August 27, 2009),
"Editor's Letter" ,
New York Times , retrieved February 22, 2014
^ Sheri Fink (August 25, 2009).
"The Deadly Choices at Memorial" . New York Times Magazine . Retrieved February 22, 2014 .
^
"Contest Entries" .
Association of Health Care Journalists . Retrieved February 22, 2014 .
^
"2009 winners named in health journalism awards" . Association of Health Care Journalists. March 21, 2010. Retrieved February 22, 2014 .
^ Fink, Sheri (12 April 2010).
"Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting: Deadly Choices at Memorial" . propublica.org . ProPublica. Retrieved 22 February 2014 .
^ Andrew Van Dam.
"Fink wins Dart award for Memorial story" . Association of Health Care Journalists. Retrieved February 22, 2014 .
^
"Past Finalists - The Michael Kelly Award" . Retrieved 23 February 2014 .
^
"Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013" . National Book Critics Circle. January 14, 2014. Archived from
the original on January 15, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014 .
^
"National Book Critics Circle Announces Award Winners for Publishing Year 2013" . National Book Critics Circle. March 13, 2014. Archived from
the original on March 14, 2014. Retrieved March 13, 2014 .
^
"2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners Announced" .
Los Angeles Times . April 11, 2014. Retrieved April 13, 2014 .
^
"The Ridenhour Book Prize" . Ridenhour.org. April 2, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2014 .
^ Carolyn Kellogg (May 13, 2015).
"PEN announces award-winners and shortlists" .
LA Times . Retrieved May 14, 2015 .
^
"2015 PEN Literary Award Winners" . pen.org . 11 May 2015. Retrieved May 14, 2015 .
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