Natural Products Expo East 2015

Maryn McKenna
Author, Journalist



Maryn McKenna is an independent journalist specializing in public health, global health and food policy. She is a National Geographic contributor and writes for Wired, Scientific American, Nature, Slate, the Guardian, the Atlantic, and other publications in the United States and Europe. She is the author of the award-winning books SUPERBUG, about the global rise of antibiotic resistance, and Beating Back the Devil, about the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is completing a book about antibiotics in agriculture that will be published in 2016. She is a Senior Fellow of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University and a research affiliate at MIT. She was a James Beard Media Award finalist in 2014, and her 2015 TED Talk, “What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more?” has been viewed almost 1 million times and translated into 12 languages so far.

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