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Patricia Thomas |
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Patricia Thomas is the first holder of the Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism at Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia.
She has written about medicine, public health, and life science research for many years, and from 1991 to early 1997 was editor of the Harvard Health Letter. For her book Big Shot: Passion, Politics, and the Struggle for an AIDS Vaccine (PublicAffairs, September 2001), Thomas won the 1998 Leonard Silk Journalism Fellowship and the 2002 Ralph A. Deterling Award of Distinction from the American Medical Writers Association New England Chapter. Thomas was also one of the first healthy volunteers injected with an experimental HIV vaccine.
She has been a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 2002-2003 was the Visiting Scholar at the Knight Center for Science and Medical Journalism at Boston University. During that year, Thomas taught graduate students, wrote a monograph analyzing news management and reporting during the anthrax attacks of 2001, and wrote a chapter for The War on Our Freedoms: Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism. She analyzed how post-9/11 laws such as the Patriot Act affect infectious disease research. Thomas’s work appears regularly in Harvard Magazine, where she is a Contributing Editor.
Thomas is an advisor to the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT and the Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Foundation. She also reviews grants for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program on Breast Cancer, administered by the Department of Defense.
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