About Sheri
Dr. Sheri Fink is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and physician who is a leading expert on disaster, conflict, and pandemic medicine. She has dedicated her career to investigating the desperate ethical choices made when healthcare systems collapse. Trained with an MD and PhD (in neuroscience) from Stanford University, Sheri also worked as a relief worker in disaster and war zones, giving her a deep, personal understanding of crisis medicine. She currently works as a correspondent for The New York Times. Her landmark investigative work, which often combines science and moral inquiry, has earned her multiple prestigious awards, including three Pulitzer Prizes: Investigative Reporting (2010): For her article, and later the bestselling book, Five Days at Memorial (2013), which chronicles the life-and-death decisions made by exhausted doctors after Hurricane Katrina ravaged a New Orleans hospital. The book was later adapted into an Apple TV+ limited series. International Reporting (2015 & 2021): For her work with The New York Times team covering the Ebola crisis in West Africa and the global COVID-19 pandemic. Sheri is also the author of War Hospital (2003), a book about medical professionals working under siege during the genocide in Srebrenica. She is currently working on a book about the COVID-19 pandemic, continuing her critical investigation into the human and ethical responses to global crises.
