Vidya Krishnan
Vidya Krishnan is a health-focused Indian investigative journalist and author, based in Montreal.She comes from a Tamil brahmin family Krishnan reported that she was the survivor of sexual harassment at India Today in 2018 and received online abuse and death threats due to her reporting about the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. She is the author of "Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped our History." Career. Krishnan started her career in 2003 at The Pioneer newspaper. As a freelance journalist, she regularly writes for Foreign Policy, The Caravan, and The Atlantic, and was previously the health editor for  The Hindu. She has reported on issues including the Rohingya genocide, tuberculosis"," the right to health movement, and ethical standards in Indian clinical trials of pharmaceutical drugs. In 2018, she accused the Executive Editor of India Today of sexual harassment while she was a trainee journalists in 2003. In 2020, after years of health reporting, Krishnan stated that she faced a significantly high level of online harassment while reporting on COVID-19 including receiving death threats. Throughout 2021, Krishnan was critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in India. She spoke about how the pandemic  is disproportionally affecting poor people, and that the response is not led by scientists. In November 2021, Krishnan criticized Shashi Tharoor for posting a Tweet talking about the appearance of six female members of the Indian parliament. Krishnan delivered the Dr C.V.S. Sarma Memorial Lecture at the University of Hyderabad in November 2021, titled "Science Denialism & Democracy". Awards. Krishnan won a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University to study the impact of behavioral economics on antibiotic use, with a specific focus on self-medication and antibiotic resistance. In 2017, she received the International Health Media Fellowships award. She has won the  Oxford University's global health journalism fellowship, a National Press Foundation fellowship, and McGill University's global health media scholarship.