The following month Fink was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for the article. 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. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University The article, which distilled over two years of reporting, described the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in 2005. In August 2009 Fink published The Deadly Choices at Memorial, an investigative piece, in the New York Times Magazine. She was a 2007–2008 Kaiser Media Fellow with the Kaiser Family Foundation. In 2007, she taught a course at Tulane University on "public health issues in crisis situations". Her articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Discover and Scientific American.įink 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. 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. She also developed a career in journalism. įink went to assist refugees on the Kosovo-Macedonia border during the war in Kosovo instead of attending her medical school graduation.Īfter 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. In 1990, Fink graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in psychology. Early life and education įink was born in Detroit. Īs of April 2014, Fink is a staff reporter for The New York Times.
Team members named by The Times were Pam Belluck, Helene Cooper, Fink, Adam Nossiter, Norimitsu Onishi, Kevin Sack, and Ben C. 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. 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".
Sheri Fink is an American journalist who writes about health, medicine and science. Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, 2010 University of Michigan (B.S.), Stanford University (Ph.D., M.D.)įive Days at Memorial, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival
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