Elena Conis

Elena Conis

Elena Conis

Faculty – Acting Dean, Professor

Alumni

Office: 124A North Gate Hall

Elena Conis is a writer and historian of medicine, public health, and the environment. Prior to joining the Graduate School of Journalism, she was a professor of history and the Mellon Fellow in Health and Humanities at Emory University; the Cain Fellow at the Science History Institute; and an award-winning health columnist for the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization (Arthur Viseltear Award 2015); How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT (William Welch Medal 2024 and National Association of Science Writers Book Award finalist 2023); and, with Aimee Medeiros and Sandra Eder, Pink & Blue: Gender, Culture, and the Health of Children. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Institutes of Health, and she is an affiliate of Berkeley’s Department of History and UCSF’s Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in history of medicine from UCSF; masters degrees in journalism and public health from Berkeley; and a bachelors degree in biology from Columbia University. For more information, check out www.elenaconis.com.

TEACHING SCHEDULE:

Sec. Title Time Location
001 J262 Narrative Fundamentals
Fall 2024
Mon, 2pm-5pm 108 North Gate (Lower News) — 108 North Gate (Lower News)
001 J243 Advanced Narrative – Health and Medicine
Spring 2024
M 1pm–4pm 108 North Gate (Lower News) — 108 North Gate (Lower News)
008 J298 Narrative Capstone (Narrative 2nd-years)
Spring 2024
Wed 9am–12pm 104 North Gate — 104 North Gate
001 J226 Science Denial: Role of the Media
Fall 2023
TU 2–4pm 106 North Gate (Upper News) — 106 North Gate (Upper News)

REPORTING INTERESTS

Environment, Gender/Sexuality, HPV, Health, Science, Social Issues, chicken pox, journalism, measles, mumps, vaccines

MEDIA PLATFORMS

Narrative Writing