Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award–winning journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, medical doctor, professor, and the author of five books and three forthcoming books. She is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, clinical assistant professor in Stanford University’s Department of Medicine, and visiting professor at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA where she teaches crisis management and communications. Her work focuses on the spread of health misinformation and disinformation and solutions to stop the viral spread of lies
Her most recent book, What the Fact? Finding the Truth in All the Noise, tackles one of the most important issues that today’s society faces, misinformation and the overexposure to news and data. Dr. Yasmin explores the crucial need for media literacy and fact-based reporting, and provides us with the necessary skills to discern truth from lies.
