Joanne Silberner

Joanne Silberner, an 18-year veteran of NPR's Science Desk, is a freelance reporter focusing on global health and health policy.

Articles by Joanne Silberner

Meeting surrounding the kickoff for the HelmVit study on schistosomiasis during pregnancy and its effects on the infants immune system (Prof. da Costa is second from left). Image by Eva Arnold

A Neglected Disease, A Lab Researcher, And Real Life

Anita Neupane following surgery on a contracture that goes from her right shoulder to her waist, which prevents her from lifting her arm.

Fighting Fire with Prevention

Saraswoti, who suffered terrible burns when she stumbled into a pot of oil heating on the open-fire stove in the middle of her family’s one-room home, sits with her father.

Unmeasured and Unfunded: Lack of Data Hinders Burn Prevention and Care

Saraswoti Shrestha was burned as a child when she fell into a cooking fire in her family's previous one-room home.

Blazing Injustice: The Hidden Crisis of Burn Injuries

Dr. Shankar Man Rai taking a skin graft in a Nepal operating room.

Reconstructing Hope: A Surgeon's Mission to Help Nepal's Burn Patients