Erika Check Hayden is an American science journalist and the director of the Science Communication Program (SciCom), a graduate program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, created in January 2017.[1][2][3] She is based in San Francisco, California.[4]

Biography

Check Hayden received her bachelor's degree in biology from Stanford University, where she wrote for both the Stanford Daily and the Stanford Alumni magazine.[1]

Check Hayden previously wrote for the news section of the peer-reviewed journal Nature from 2001 to 2016.[1] She initially worked for Nature out of Washington, D.C. until 2006, when she began working for them out of San Francisco, California. She first became an instructor for the SciCom program in 2010.[1] She covered the 2014 ebola outbreak in West Africa for Nature and Wired, with funding from a fellowship from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.[1][5] Her coverage focused on aspects of the ebola outbreak that had generally been ignored by the mainstream media, such as the outbreak's effects on maternal health.[6] She was later recognized with three awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists for this reporting.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Erika Check Hayden will be new director of Science Communication Program". UC Santa Cruz News. 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  2. ↑ "Science writing faculty". University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  3. ↑ Ibarra, Nicholas (2017-07-25). "New UC Santa Cruz Science Communication director sees groundswell of support for field". Santa Cruz Sentinel. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  4. ↑ "Erika Check Hayden". Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  5. ↑ Angler, Martin W. (2017-06-14). Science Journalism: An Introduction. Taylor & Francis. p. 332. ISBN 9781317369820.
  6. ↑ "Erika Check Hayden Honored in Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism Competition". Pulitzer Center. 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2018-07-18.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.