Mark Schoofs is on leave from the Wall Street Journal, where he writes on global public health. He won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for an eight-part series on AIDS in Africa for the Village Voice. He also contributed to the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks, which was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer for Breaking News.

Schoofs has written on a wide variety of subjects including the effects of war in Africa; access to medicine in developing nations; cancer and AIDS research; innovative policing methods; the international drug trade; money-laundering; and gay rights in Africa.

Schoofs is writing a book with the working title Sex and Blood: A Tale of Two Epidemics. It explores the distinct historical, economic, political, and cultural forces that have shaped the Russian and South African AIDS epidemics. He will be based out of the OSI New York office during the term of the Fellowship.

New York, NY  |  Nov 2008 - Oct 2009