The article also won a 2010 National Magazine Award for Reporting, and the 2010 Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma given by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The following month Fink was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for the article. In March 2010 The Deadly Choices at Memorial was awarded second place in the 'Large Magazine' category of the Association of Health Care Journalists's (AHCJ) Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University The article, which distilled over two years of reporting, described the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in 2005. In August 2009 Fink published The Deadly Choices at Memorial, an investigative piece, in the New York Times Magazine. She was a 2007–2008 Kaiser Media Fellow with the Kaiser Family Foundation.

In 2007, she taught a course at Tulane University on 'public health issues in crisis situations'.

Her articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Discover and Scientific American.įink has contributed to the public radio news magazine Public Radio International (PRI)'s The World covering a number of topics including the global HIV/AIDS pandemic and international aid in development, conflict and disaster settings. Fink is a senior fellow with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, a senior Future Tense fellow at New America Foundation, and formerly, a staff reporter at ProPublica in New York. She also developed a career in journalism. įink went to assist refugees on the Kosovo-Macedonia border during the war in Kosovo instead of attending her medical school graduation.Īfter graduating from medical school, Fink became involved in humanitarian aid work in disaster and war zones with the International Medical Corps, including Kosovo, Iraq, Bosnia, Macedonia and Mozambique.

In 1990, Fink graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in psychology.

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