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Dr. Michael Nedelman is a global health and media specialist who leads the Health Equity Media Fellowship at Stanford University and works at an innovative organization based in East Africa called Maisha Meds.
He previously covered health and medicine as a journalist for CNN, earning an Emmy nomination for the network's acclaimed reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic. As producer for the inimitable Dr. Sanjay Gupta, he was part of a team known for excellent reporting and storytelling — also winning a Cronkite Award for tackling misinformation during the pandemic.
Before CNN, he was a digital producer for the ABC News Medical Unit, worked on public health campaigns at the World Health Organization in New Delhi, and trained at the Stanford Journalism Program as part of the university's Global Health Media Fellowship.
He studied film at Yale and holds an MD from Stanford.
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