Sheri Fink, MD, PhD
Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Visiting Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health
Fellow, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health
Dr. Fink is currently a Senior Fellow with HHI and a staff reporter at ProPublica in New York. She has taught, researched and written about medical aid in disasters and conflicts, international humanitarian emergencies, and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Fink received both her PhD and MD from Stanford University in 1998 and 1999, and then was involved in a number of international humanitarian aid initiatives in Kosovo, Mozambique, Russia, Iraq, Pakistan, and Indonesia, among others. In 2005, she worked with HHI and the American Red Cross to survey public health needs in Louisiana shelters after Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Fink’s book War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (PublicAffairs) was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction and was awarded the 2004 American Medical Writers Association Special Book Award. Fink has reported for a variety of print, web and radio media and was a 2007-8 Kaiser Media Fellow with the Kaiser Family Foundation.