- Investigative journalist and author of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books on science, social justice, and international politics
- Her latest book, The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years, has been described by international malaria expert Malcolm Molyneux as "thrilling" and "astonishing"
- Her drug industry exposé, The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients, has been hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a tautly argued study…a trenchant exposé…meticulously researched and packed with documentary evidence," and as "important [and] powerful" by The New England Journal of Medicine.


