She has written extensively on a wide range of health and medical issues for both medical professionals and the general public in publications including The Harvard Health Letter,[1][2][3][4] JAMA,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][excessive citations] Consumer Reports,[18] CNN,[19] Education Week,[20] Weight Watchers Magazine,[21] Business Week,[22][23][24] The Missouri Review,[25] and The Huffington Post.
[26] As Terra Ziporyn Snider, her married name, she co-founded and became executive director of Start School Later, a public-health non-profit organization.
She earned an MA and PhD in the history of science and medicine as a Searle Fellow at the University of Chicago, where she conducted research in biopsychology in the laboratory of Martha McClintock.
[27] Ziporyn's dissertation, supervised by Lester S. King and published as Disease in the Popular American Press, focused on relationship between science and society.
In 1984 Ziporyn became an associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and in 1985 began freelancing for publications including The Harvard Health Letter,[1][2][3][4] JAMA,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] Consumer Reports,[18] CNN,[19] Education Week,[20] Weight Watchers Magazine,[21] Business Week,[22][23][24] The Missouri Review,[25] and The Huffington Post.