Olga Khazan is a staff writer for The Atlantic, where she covers health, gender, and science. Prior to her current position, she was The Atlantic’s global editor. Before joining the magazine, she covered international affairs and start-ups for The Washington Post. Khazan has also written for the Los Angeles Times, Forbes.com, Wired, and other publications, and has been a Web editor and multimedia project manager. She has been named one of the 10 Best Science Writers of the year by Real Clear Science and is a two-time recipient of the International Reporting Project’s Journalism Fellowship, for which she reported from Brazil.
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Can we end the HIV epidemic in the next five years? President Trump pledged in February to do just that, but it will take vigorous research, aggressive outreach, new global co...
Who decides what something is worth? The price of health care doesn’t follow many of the rules of other commodities because it is so inelastic — people value restorative treat...
More than 140,000 people from more than 140 countries have told researchers just what they think and feel about science and key health challenges, such as vaccinations. Wellco...
As US special envoy for climate change in the Obama administration, Todd Stern helped cobble together a consensus among almost 200 countries to hold themselves accountable for...
Each day, 8,118 people across the United States receive health care through the doors of Planned Parenthood — roughly 2.5 million annually. Recent polls suggest Planned Parent...
Together, organizational behavior professor Matthew Feinberg and sociologist Robb Willer have extensively studied why liberals and conservatives so rarely succeed at persuadin...
What makes two people click? What does it really mean to say, “we have chemistry”? The Atlantic's Olga Khazan talks to biological anthropologist Helen Fisher about the four st...
Thirty-six million people have died of AIDS since 1981, and about as many are living with HIV today. But antiretroviral drugs can suppress HIV blood levels almost completely,...
Global health today is characterized by a mix of promising developments and troubling trends. Life expectancy is on the rise, and maternal and child mortality rates are fallin...
When the University of Texas completes its new medical school campus, it will introduce an entirely different approach to the study of medicine. Self-directed projects, collab...