Fellows & Editors
Dina Fine Maron
- Trip:
- Tanzania 2013
- Affiliation:
- Scientific American
- Country:
- Tanzania
- Year:
- 2013
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Dina Fine Maron is an associate editor for medicine, biology and health at Scientific American. Maron’s reporting has also appeared in Newsweek, Time.com, The Boston Globe and Science News, among other publications. She was also a staff reporter for ClimateWire and Greenwire. She has expertise covering everything from the role of climate change in wildfires to responsibility to clean up war zones. She has a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. from Brandeis University. She has also worked on global health projects on the Thai-Burma border and in Kenya. Her coverage on mental illness and stigma for Newsweek was awarded the Outstanding Media Award for 2009 from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Stories
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Witchcraft Trade, Skin Cancer Pose Serious Threats to Albinos in Tanzania
Richard Costar is worth more dead than alive. Strangers call him “money” or “deal” for the cash they could make by selling his body parts to a witch...
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Farmers Try New Food-Growing Strategies to Ensure Food Security, Cope with Climate Change
Farmers need only survey their parched fields during the ever-intensifying dry seasons here to know climate change is happening. Rain falls less frequently than it did a decade ago because of &ldquo...;
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Math-Based Adventures Animate Innovative African TV Show
Watch out, Dora. This winter, Tanzania expects to launch its own educational cartoon television show. Purported to be the first animated series to teach math in East Africa and the first cartoon...
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Rajiv Shah of USAID: How to Modernize Foreign Aid to Build a More Resilient World
Your agency funds projects around the world to promote health, improve food security, and so on. About a year into your tenure, in 2011, you said that USAID is “no longer...
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