Madeline Drexler

Madeline Drexler

Madeline Drexler was born on May 23rd, 1954 and is currently 71 years old. Drexler attended Ohio State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree.

Madeline Drexler is a Boston-based journalist, author, and was the editor of Harvard Public Health magazine. She’s been a Knight Science Journalism Fellow and a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism.

Madeline was a medical columnist for The Boston Globe Magazine from 1988 to 1996 and was a 1996-1997 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. From 1980 until 1987, she was a staff writer for The Plain Dealer Magazine in Cleveland, Ohio. Since the year 2000, she has studied with Larry Rosenberg.

She has been a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health. In 2007, she held a Fair Health Journalism Public Health Fellowship at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’ Health Policy Institute, focusing on reporting on the social determinants of health.

Madeline’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, Tricycle, Undark, New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, Saveur, Nieman Reports, Best American Travel Writing, as well as many other publications.

Madeline has received numerous national awards for her feature writing and has been reporting extensively from the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan since 2012. Her articles have been featured on CNN and the BBC. She started her career as a staff photographer for the Associated Press.

She received the 1992 International Biomedical Science Journalism Prize from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation.

Secret Agents looks at today’s emerging, new infections; those that have increased in attack rate or geographic range, or threaten to do so, and tells the stories of the scientists that race to catch up with these invisible adversaries, superior both in guile and in speed. Every chapter focuses on a different threat: animals and insect-borne diseases, antibiotic resistance, foodborne pathogens, pandemic influenza, infectious causes of chronic disease, and bioterrorism, which includes the latest info on public health threats posed by anthrax as well as diseases like smallpox.

Based in part on material collected from the Forum on Emerging Infections hosted by the Institute of Medicine in Washington, D.C., this book is ultimately just as engaging as it is disturbing. Madeline’s thorough survey of the field of infectious disease, supplemented by extensive interviews with the top researchers of today, yields a compelling portrait of a world that’s engaged in a clandestine war.

Emerging infections are among the many secret ties that bind the world into this organic whole. We know that infectious disease is an inescapable part of life; however, we need to start thinking globally and acting locally if we’re to avoid the menace of a catastrophic outbreak of some new plague. This book sounds like a compelling and clear call to take up arms against the organic predators among us.

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