Author Q&A Series
October 9, 2024 • 7:00-8:00pm
Lynne Peeples
The Inner Clock: Living in Sync with Our Circadian Rhythms
(Riverhead Books, September 2024)
About Lynne:
Lynne Peeples is an author and journalist specializing in medicine, public health, and the environment. Her writing has been featured in publications including The Guardian, Scientific American, Nature, and HuffPost, where she previously served as the environmental health staff reporter. Before becoming a journalist, she crunched numbers as a biostatistician for HIV clinical trials and environmental health studies. Lynne is a recipient of an MIT Knight Science Journalism fellowship and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation book grant. She also holds master’s degrees in biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health and in science journalism from New York University. She lives in Seattle.
November 13, 2024 • 7:00-8:00pm
Lina Zeldovich
The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost—and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
(St. Martin's Press, October 2024)
About Lina:
Lina Zeldovich grew up in a dissident family of Soviet scientists, listening to bedtime stories about volcanoes and black holes, and learned English as a second language in her twenties as an immigrant New Yorker. Now an award-winning author and speaker, she has published stories in Popular Science, The New York Times, Smithsonian, National Geographic, Reader’s Digest, Scientific American and more. Her last book, The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health, has been optioned for a TV series. Her new book, The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost—and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail is being released from St. Martin’s Press in October 2024, followed by a UK edition from Waterstones/Bonnier Books. A thriller-like narrative, it unveils a century-old, nearly forgotten antibiotic-free cure for drug-resistant infections that may be our best defense against the next pandemic. It tells the story of how it happened and why we should know about it now—when our antibiotic shield is collapsing—to make well-informed health choices.
September 11, 2024 • 7:00-8:00pm
Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD
Underbelly: Childhood Diarrhea and the Hidden Local Realities of Global Health
(The MIT Press, May 2024)
We'd like to send a special thank you to Georgia Center for the Book, Atlanta Science Gallery, Emory Office of Public Scholarship, and Ideas Festival for being the official co-sponsors of the Fall 2024 Living Health: Author Q&A Series.
