Investigative journalist and author of several critically acclaimed books on science, human rights, and international politics, including The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years (2010), The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients (2006), Crudo. Brief History of a Bottomless Well (2004) and Pandemic. Map of the contagion of the most lethal diseases on the planet (2016). A current member of the National Institute and the Puffin Foundation, his writings have been published in media such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American or Foreign Affairs, and he has appeared in current affairs programs in the United States, including RadioLab, Fresh Air and other NPR programs, as well as on CNN, Al Jazeera and BBC. Shah is a very popular public speaker: her TED talk on malaria has been seen by more than a million people and she delivered the keynote address at the TEDMED 2014 conference. In addition, he has lectured at universities and colleges across the country, such as the Columbia Earth Institute, MIT, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Georgetown and others. She worked as an Ottaway journalism professor in 2014 at the State University of New York at New Paltz and has received financial support for her investigations from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and The Nation Investigative Fund. Buzzfeed cited her groundbreaking 1997 collection Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire among its "27 Books Every Woman in America Should Read."