KNVUL SHEIKH

I'm a staff reporter at The New York Times covering chronic and infectious diseases and other aspects of personal health.

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Before joining The Times, I spent several years as a freelance writer and editor. My writing has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, Scientific American, Scholastic News and other publications. As an editor, I helped produce newsletters for Spectrum (now The Transmitter), organized digital operations for a doctors-only offshoot of Everyday Health, and served as the head of news at Genome Magazine.

I grew up in the foothills of the Himalayas in Pakistan, received a degree in molecular biology from the University of California, San Diego, and worked as a scientific researcher at Scripps Research, before doing a stint at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, where I studied the mechanisms behind cellular memories. 

I moved to New York to get an advanced degree in journalism from New York University's Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP). And I was awarded a fellowship at The Open Notebook in 2019.

When I'm not planning my next big trip, I enjoy running and experimenting with green smoothies.​