Pamela Ferdinand is an award-winning journalist and former MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow who covers the commercial determinants of public health (private sector activities that affect our health). She has worked as a journalist for The Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Miami Herald and contributed to National Geographic News, The Economist, NPR, and more.

She has covered everything from politics, education, parenting, and plane crashes to hurricanes, hackers, and neuroscience. She’s also a lecturer in journalism at Lake Forest College in Illinois.