Seema Yasmin

Seema Yasmin is a British physician, writer and science communicator based at Stanford University. She is Director of Research and Education at the Stanford Health Communication Initiative.[1] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Yasmin helped to debunk myths about the coronavirus.

Seema Yasmin
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Queen Mary University of London
Scientific career
InstitutionsStanford University
The Dallas Morning News
University of Texas at Dallas
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Education and early career

Yasmin was born in the United Kingdom. Her mother, Yasmin Halima, is a Distinguished Careers Institute fellow who works on women's health.[2] She grew up in Nuneaton and moved to London to attend high school. At the age of seventeen, Yasmin decided that she wanted to take her mother's first name as her surname, and had her name changed with a lawyer.[2] Yasmin trained in biochemistry at Queen Mary University of London and graduated in 2005.[3] She moved to the University of Cambridge to complete a graduate programme in medicine.[4] She started her medical career in the National Health Service, working at Homerton University Hospital for one year. In 2010 Yasmin was awarded a University of California, Los Angeles fellowship to train in clinical research in Botswana.[5] She moved to the United States with her mother.[2] In 2011, Yasmin joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service[6] as an officer at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she studied outbreaks of disease in prisons, border towns and American Indian reservations.[7] Whilst studying an outbreak of flesh eating bacteria in the Navajo Nation, Yasmin realised the power of effective science communication, and realised that she wanted to use journalism to shift public policy.[2]

Career

In 2013 Yasmin was made a Dalla Lana Global Journalism Fellow at the University of Toronto.[8] Here she focussed on telling the stories of epidemics in an effort to encourage others to learn from tragedy.[9] Soon after completing her fellowship, Yasmin joined The Dallas Morning News as a reporter.[4][10] Her work there included coverage of the Ebola crisis in Dallas and the epidemic of gun violence in the US.[11][12] She was a medical analyst for CNN, and had a weekly medical segment on television news partner NBC 5 DFW.[4] She held a simultaneous position as Professor of Public Health at the University of Texas at Dallas.[13][14] Yasmin delivered the 2016 University of Texas at Austin McGovern Lecture, where she discussed the lessons she had learned reporting from public health emergencies.[15]

Yasmin joined Stanford University as a John S. Knight Fellow in 2017. There she investigated the spread of misinformation and pseudoscience during epidemics.[16] As part of this fellowship, Yasmin started working with Wired to debunk pseudoscience and misinformation on YouTube. She delivered a talk at the TEDx OakLawn event in 2018. In 2019 Yasmin was appointed as Director of the Stanford University Health Communication Initiative.[2]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Yasmin used social media, podcasts,[17] and popular science articles to better inform the public about the coronavirus disease.[18][19][20] Unfortunately, SARS-CoV-2 resulted not only in the spread of both coronavirus, but an overwhelming amount of misinformation.[21] Yasmin became one of the most trusted public health experts on social media.[22] She used webinars to teach students about how to report responsibly on medical emergencies.[23][24] In an interview with Bumble, Yasmin explained how to date during the pandemic.[25]

Selected publications

Peer-reviewed scientific papers
  • Ngugi, E. N.; Roth, E.; Mastin, Theresa; Nderitu, M. G.; Yasmin, Seema (2012-09-01). "Female sex workers in Africa: Epidemiology overview, data gaps, ways forward". SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 9 (3): 148–153. doi:10.1080/17290376.2012.743825. ISSN 1729-0376. PMC 4560463. PMID 23237069.[26]
  • Regan, Joanna J.; Traeger, Marc S.; Humpherys, Dwight; Mahoney, Dianna L.; Martinez, Michelle; Emerson, Ginny L.; Tack, Danielle M.; Geissler, Aimee; Yasmin, Seema; Lawson, Regina; Williams, Velda (2015-06-01). "Risk Factors for Fatal Outcome From Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in a Highly Endemic Area—Arizona, 2002–2011". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 60 (11): 1659–1666. doi:10.1093/cid/civ116. ISSN 1058-4838.[27]

Selected works

Her second book, Muslim Women Are Everything, started as a conversation on Twitter and ended as a six-figure book deal.[33][34]

Awards and honours
gollark: The US apparently has a few tens of % of people saying they believe in creationism, but this might be more political signallih than actual belief.
gollark: You said single digit percent. I'd find a few % of people being weird on surveys entirely plausible.
gollark: A certain fraction of people are just going to lie on/misinterpret survey questions for whatever reason.
gollark: Overall, IQ and literacy have apparently been trending vaguely upward for ages.
gollark: The internet and also to some extent news system make stupidity very visible.

References
  1. "Seema Yasmin". John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford. Retrieved 2018-11-01.
  2. "Q&A: mother and daughter Yasmin Halima and Seema Yasmin". The Stanford Daily. 2019-01-30. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  3. "Cambridge health specialist joins The Dallas Morning News". Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  4. "Seema Yasmin | Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy". munkschool.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  5. "CNN medical analyst, Dallas Morning News reporter, Munk School graduate". University of Toronto News. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  6. Yasmin, Seema; Yasmin, Seema (2020-02-29). "The CDC's 'Disease Detectives' Are Our Front-Line Defense Against Coronavirus". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  7. "Seema Yasmin's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  8. "The Dalla Lana Fellowship in Global Journalism — at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health". www.dlsph.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  9. Laughery, Chris. "In The Moment ... For Every Epidemic, A Story: Seema Yasmin & Communicating About Disease". listen.sdpb.org. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  10. "Why a doctor joined the Dallas Morning News as a reporter". Poynter. 2014-07-21. Retrieved 2018-11-01.
  11. "Brit 'Disease Detective' Helps Ebola-Hit Dallas". Sky News. Retrieved 2018-11-01.
  12. "Ebola Survivors". Pulitzer Center. 2016-02-03. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  13. "Public Health Professor Brings CDC Experience, Expertise - News Center - The University of Texas at Dallas". www.utdallas.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-01.
  14. "CNN medical analyst, Dallas Morning News reporter, Munk School graduate". University of Toronto News. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  15. "McGovern Lecture: From Ebola to Zika: Lessons learned from reporting on public health emergencies - Texas Today: UT Events & Announcements Calendar". Texas Today: UT Events & Announcements Calendar. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  16. "Seema Yasmin". Center for Health Journalism. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  17. Intercepted (2020-04-22). "Intercepted Podcast: Coronavirus and the Radical Religious Right's Bumbling Messiah". The Intercept. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  18. "Dr. Seema Yasmin Debunks Coronavirus Myths". WIRED Videos. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  19. "What's a Pandemic? Your Coronavirus Questions, Answered". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  20. "How Covid-19 immunity compares to other diseases | WIRED Middle East". wired.me. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  21. "What's on TV April 26: Sunday Talk and Coronavirus Specials". Los Angeles Times. 2020-04-25. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  22. "Who Are Your Trusted Sources on COVID-19?". today.duke.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  23. "On-Demand Student Webinar: Responsible Reporting on Epidemics with Dr. Seema Yasmin". Pulitzer Center. 2020-04-08. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  24. MLive.com (2020-02-03). "Stanford doctor talks coronavirus, everything you need to know". mlive. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  25. "Bumble - How to Date During Coronavirus, According to an Epidemiologist". Bumble. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  26. Ngugi, E. N.; Roth, E.; Mastin, Theresa; Nderitu, M. G.; Yasmin, Seema (2012-09-01). "Female sex workers in Africa: Epidemiology overview, data gaps, ways forward". SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 9 (3): 148–153. doi:10.1080/17290376.2012.743825. ISSN 1729-0376. PMC 4560463. PMID 23237069.
  27. Regan, Joanna J.; Traeger, Marc S.; Humpherys, Dwight; Mahoney, Dianna L.; Martinez, Michelle; Emerson, Ginny L.; Tack, Danielle M.; Geissler, Aimee; Yasmin, Seema; Lawson, Regina; Williams, Velda (2015-06-01). "Risk Factors for Fatal Outcome From Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in a Highly Endemic Area—Arizona, 2002–2011". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 60 (11): 1659–1666. doi:10.1093/cid/civ116. ISSN 1058-4838.
  28. Yasmin, Seema. (2018). Impatient Dr. Lange : One Man's Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-2662-4. OCLC 1055272454.
  29. Joep Lange Institute (2018-08-31), Seema Yasmin introduces her book The Impatient Dr. Lange, retrieved 2018-11-01
  30. "Seema Yasmin". HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher. Retrieved 2020-05-10.<ref>Yasmin, Seema; Azim, Fahmida (2020). Muslim women are everything : stereotype-shattering stories of courage, inspiration, and adventure. HARPERCOLLINS. ISBN 0-06-294703-6. OCLC 1111254482.
  31. "Seema Yasmin". HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  32. "From Liberia, Ebola Survivors Report They Are Still Afflicted with Disabling Symptoms". Scientific American. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  33. "Former Dallas journalist's tweet-turned-essay on 'Muslim women do things' earns six-figure book deal". Dallas News. 2019-05-16. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  34. "MUSLIM WOMEN ARE EVERYTHING is here!". Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  35. "Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference awards $18,000 in cash prizes in writing competitions". UNT News. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  36. "2016 Lone Star EMMY Nominations | National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences – Lone Star". lonestaremmy.org. Retrieved 2018-11-01.
  37. parks, seema yasmin,scott friedman,eva (2015-11-16). "Hidden Threat: The Kissing Bug and Chagas disease". interactives.dallasnews.com. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
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