Elena Conis

Historian and writer Elena Conis is a Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism and Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of Berkeley’s Master’s program in Narrative Nonfiction Writing. Her book Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization (Chicago) received the Arthur J. Viseltear Award from the American Public Health Association. Her book How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT (Bold Type) received the William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine and was a finalist for the National Association of Science Writers Science and Society Book Award. Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Science History Institute. Previously, she was a professor of history and the Mellon Fellow in Health and Humanities at Emory University and, before that, a writer and award-winning health columnist for the Los Angeles Times.