Apoorva Mandavilli is an American investigative journalist whose work has focused on medical science.

[1] During the COVID-19 pandemic, she joined The New York Times as a health and science writer.

[2] In the spring of 2019, she was writer-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin, where she joined a panel discussion on vaccine refusal while writing about containing a measles outbreak in Lowell, Massachusetts.

[6] She also co-founded Culture Dish, an organization dedicated to enhancing diversity in science journalism, and is the founding chair of the Diversity Committee for the National Association of Science Writers.

[7] Mandavilli was the 2019 winner of the Victor L. Cohn award for scientific journalism.