Keren Landman, MD
Former Senior Reporter
Keren Landman was a senior reporter covering public health, consumer health, and health misinformation at Vox. She has written about a wide range of topics, including the upstream causes of public health failures, climate change-related infectious diseases, and questionable health trends (like sunscreen myths, energy drinks, and whole-body deodorant).
Before she joined Vox, Keren’s freelance writing appeared in a range of publications, including Wired, the Atlantic, and the New York Times. Before that, she trained as a physician, researcher, and epidemiologist with specialties in internal medicine, pediatrics, and infectious diseases. She served as a disease detective at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has worked as a medical epidemiologist and science adviser for a range of public health institutions. Her work as a researcher centered on the prevention and treatment of HIV and malaria in resource-poor countries. She completed a journalism fellowship at the University of Toronto.
She currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and can be reached by email at keren.landman@vox.com or on X at @landmanspeaking.
Latest articles by Keren Landman, MD
This year’s no good, very bad norovirus season.
How to decode your mental heath benefits.
It turns out cleaning your hands is more complicated than killing germs.
Novavax is just as effective, but far less likely to cause fevers and fatigue.
Here’s what might help your cold — and what probably won’t.
Everybody loves MAHA — because nobody knows what it really is.
That Tylenol’s shelf life is longer than you think.
Kitchen do’s and don’ts that may surprise you.
Could RFK Jr.’s ascent change anything?
Kennedy has promised to overhaul American health care. How much can he actually change?