Helen Epstein (journalist)

For the author and memoirist, see Helen Epstein.

Helen C. Epstein (born 1961) is an American professor of human rights and public health, with a special interest in Uganda and other East African nations. She has researched reproductive health and AIDS in Africa for organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation, Population Council, and Human Rights Watch. In 2003-2004, she won a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. The next year, she was a visiting research scholar at Princeton University's Center for Health and Wellbeing.

Epstein is the author of two books, and has been a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Her articles have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Times Literary Supplement, The Lancet, Granta Magazine, and many other publications.

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