Meet Seema Yasmin

Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, professor, and author. She served as a disease detective in the Epidemic Intelligence Service after working as a hospitalist in London. She was a medical analyst for CNN through the Ebola, Zika, and Covid epidemics, and a science reporter at The Dallas Morning News. Dr. Yasmin is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative and clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University. She is the author of eight books including Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall For Them, The ABCs of Queer History, If God Is A Virus: Poems, and Djinnology: An Illuminated Compendium of Spirits and Stories from the Muslim World.