Elizabeth Yuko, PhD

Highlights

Elizabeth has written for Verywell Mind since February 2021.
She earned a PhD in Bioethics from Dublin City University.
Her work has been published in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, CNN, and more, and is an adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University.

Experience

Elizabeth Yuko, PhD, is a bioethicist and journalist, as well as an adjunct professor of ethics at Fordham University. She has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, CNN, Teen Vogue, Architectural Digest, CityLab, Real Simple, and Lifehacker, among others. She was previously the Health & Sex Editor for SheKnows Media, and has given a TEDx talk on bioethics and The Golden Girls. Yuko's academic publications cover topics including bioethics regulations in Ireland and Europe, issues of consent in residual human biological materials, research ethics, and the ethics of mental health therapies. She serves as an external ethics expert for the European Research Council.

Education

Elizabeth has a PhD in Bioethics, an LLM in Migration Law, and an MA in International Security and Conflict Studies, all from Dublin City University (Ireland), as well as a BA in Political Science from The College of Wooster.

Other work:

American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) Crisis Coverage Award: COVID-19 Edition | Winner of the "Social Adaptation" category with the article: Processing Grief During a Pandemic, When Nothing Is Normal, Rolling Stone
What You Should Know About the Covid Vaccines, Rolling Stone
How to Design Your 2020 Holiday Reboot, The New York Times
Mindfulness for Skeptics, Real Simple

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