Sonia Shah
Sonia Shah writes about science, medicine, and international politics. She is the author of "The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years," (2010), "The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients" (2006) and "Crude: The Story of Oil" (2004). Her writing has appeared in The Nation, The Lancet, Yale's e360, and elsewhere. Shah was born in 1969 in New York City to Indian immigrants. Growing up, she shuttled between the northeastern United States where her parents practiced medicine and Mumbai and Bangalore, India, where her extended working-class family lived, developing a life-long interest in inequality between and within societies. She holds a BA in journalism, philosophy, and neuroscience from Oberlin College, and lives with molecular ecologist Mark Bulmer and their two sons Zakir and Kush.

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