Tista Ghosh

Dr. Ghosh is a physician, epidemiologist and award-winning health journalist.  She has served as the Chief Medical Officer of the state of Colorado, an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, and an appointee to the U.S. Community Preventive Services Task Force. During the height of the pandemic, she advised multiple Fortune 500 companies on keeping their workers safe. As a health journalist, her writing has been featured in outlets like Fast Company, Business Insider, Inc., the HuffPost, and KevinMD. She has also appeared as a guest expert on various media platforms, including the Today Show, CNN, the NY Times, Forbes, NPR, USAToday, Healthline, and MarketWatch. In 2021, she was honored with a media excellence award for written health journalism by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Her upcoming book, Before the Next Crisis (Columbia University Press, August 5), shares powerful stories from everyday Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic—revealing essential lessons we must learn to prepare for the next public health threat. 

Her debut novel and first work of fiction, Awakening Kali, is an exploration of mental illness, through the eyes of a woman who believes she is cursed by a goddess.