Laura Beil is an independent journalist specializing in medicine, health policy and science. She was the recipient of the Victor Cohn Prize for Medical Science Reporting in 2018. In addition to being a contributing correspondent at Science News, her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Reader’s Digest, Men’s Health, and other magazines. She began freelancing in 2007 after working as a medical writer for the Dallas Morning News from 1992 to 2006. In 2018, she reported and hosted the podcast Dr. Death, which has been downloaded more than 50 million times. Her new podcast Bad Batch, a series about the stem cell industry, will be released in October 2019.
Laura Beil will be a panelist on the Investigative Podcast: The Sound and the Fury panel.
