Stephanie Nolen is the global health reporter for The New York Times. A veteran foreign correspondent, she has reported from more than 80 countries. For The Times, she covers pandemics, neglected diseases, and the social, economic and political forces that determine health care access around the world.

Nolen was awarded the prestigious Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy in 2020 and spent a year investigating the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on social inequities. In 2018 Nolen was chosen as an Ochberg Fellow on Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. 

She is an eight-time winner of Canada’s National Newspaper Award, and a 19-time nominee. She has been recognized for coverage of Africa’s AIDS pandemic; conflicts in Sudan, Uganda, Somalia, the DR Congo and the Brazilian Amazon; and the perils faced by migrant children in Central America. She is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for features. Nolen won the Amnesty International Media Award in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2018, and, in 2020 for an investigation into disappearances and mass graves in Mexico. 

Her best-selling book 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa has been published in 11 countries and seven languages. 28 won the 2007 PEN ‘Courage’ Award and was nominated for the 2007 Governor-General’s Award for Non-Fiction. Her multimedia project on caste and gender discrimination in India won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism presented to the top foreign correspondent covering India. She has twice been nominated for global Online News Awards for best multimedia project. Before joining the Times. Nolen spent 21 years reporting for The Globe and Mail and served as bureau chief in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. She also covered development issues and conflicts including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before joining The Globe in 1998, she was based in the Middle East and wrote for publications including Newsweek and The Independent of London.

A native of Montreal, Nolen holds a Bachelor of Journalism (Hons) from the University of King’s College in Canada and a Master of Science in development economics from the London School of Economics in England. She was conferred honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King’s College, University of Victoria, University of Guelph and University of Calgary. She speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese, Arabic and rudimentary isiZulu, and lives in Nova Scotia.