The GlobalPost Team
Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne - Global Health Correspondent
Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne will cover global health for GlobalPost. Shelburne will spend half her time in the field reporting on global health issues such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, dirty water, and high food prices affect the health of people in the developing world, and half her time in the United States examining the political and scientific responses to these global health problems. Shelburne has written for the Atlantic Monthly, Atlantic Unbound, the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, the New Republic Online and Amherst magazine. She was previously a staff editor at the Atlantic Monthly, where she fact-checked, edited and wrote for the magazine and its Web site. In 2006, she was a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation fellow at the International Reporting Project at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. During that fellowship, she reported from Washington D.C. and Uganda on the impact of US-funded HIV/AIDS projects in Uganda. Shelburne is a native of East Tennessee and graduated from Amherst College.