Sheri Fink

Sheri Fink
Born	Detroit
Education	University of Michigan (B.S.), Stanford University (Ph.D.) (M.D.)
Occupation	Journalist
Employer	New York Times
Known for	Investigative journalism
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, 2010

Sheri Fink is an American journalist who writes about health, medicine and science.

She received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, "for a story that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital’s exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina.". She was also a member of The New York Times reporting team that received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa. Team members named by The Times were Pam Belluck, Helene Cooper, Fink, Adam Nossiter, Norimitsu Onishi, Kevin Sack, and Ben C. Solomon.

As of April 2014, Fink is a staff reporter for the New York Times.

Fink was born in Detroit. Her father was a journalist who wrote for the Detroit News, and later became a lawyer.

In 1990, Fink graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in psychology. Fink received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 1998 and an M.D. in 1999 from Stanford University.

Fink went to assist refugees on the Kosovo-Macedonia border during the war in Kosovo instead of attending her medical school graduation.

After graduating from medical school, Fink became involved in humanitarian aid work in disaster and war zones with the International Medical Corps, including Kosovo, Haiti,Iraq, Bosnia, Macedonia and Mozambique. She also developed a career in journalism. 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. Her articles have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Discover and Scientific American.