B. D. Colen
B. D. Colen is a writer and photographer who during 27 years at The Washington Post and Newsday shared a Pulitzer Prize and covered medicine and health care for 17 years. He pioneered the coverage of bioethics in the mainstream media, and created and served as the editor of Newsday's weekly science section, wrote a nationally syndicated column on the intersection of health care, policy, and politics, and covered everything from the Karen Ann Quinlan "right-to die" case, to the earliest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, to the famine in Somalia in the early 1990s.
The author of more than a half-dozen books on medically related subjects, since 1999, Colen has been teaching science journalism and news writing courses at MIT, and in 2001, he created and began teaching a documentary photography course - 21W.749, "Documentary Photography/Photo Journalism - Still Images of a World In Motion." His photography can be seen at http://www.bdcolenphoto.com.
Since January of 2014 Colen has traveled to both Liberia and Haiti to document the work of five different NGOs, two focused on literacy efforts, two working with orphans, and one delivering medical and health care.
