Julia Belluz

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About Julia Belluz

Julia Belluz is a Paris-based journalist and co-author of the book, Food Intelligence. A contributing opinion writer to the New York Times, she has reported extensively on medicine, nutrition, and global public health from Canada, the US, and Europe. Previously, Julia was Vox's senior health correspondent in Washington, DC, a Knight Science Journalism fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and she worked as a reporter in Toronto and London. Her writing has appeared in a range of international publications, including the BMJ, the Chicago Tribune, the Economist, the Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, the New York Times, ProPublica, and the Times of London. Julia has been honored with numerous journalism awards, including the 2016 Balles Prize in Critical Thinking, the 2017 American Society of Nutrition Journalism Award, and three Canadian National Magazine Awards (in 2007 and 2013). In 2019, she was a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Communications Award finalist. Outside of writing, she’s delivered talks about health journalism on five continents, and lectured or spoken at Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, the University of Toronto, McGill University, Oxford University, and elsewhere. A native of Toronto, she holds an MSc from the London School of Economics. You can contact her here, and follow her work on Twitter @juliaoftoronto, Bluesky @juliabelluz.bsky.social, Facebook or Substack.