Simar Bajaj
@SimarSBajaj
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@NYTimes Fellow | Harvard '24, Oxford '25, Stanford MD '30 | @ForbesUnder30, @MarshallScholar, @AAASKavli, @SciCommAwards top early-career journalist
New York City
Joined September 2020
Yesterday was my first day at the @NYTimes! Honored to be reporting about health and wellness for a year — and let me know if you have any ideas and tips I also reckon there's never been a better time for you to sign up for the Well newsletter!
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Congrats to @statnews reporter Lev Facher! STAT Wins 2025 Loeb Award for Explanatory Reporting | Boston Globe Media
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STAT addiction reporter Lev Facher won a 2025 Loeb Award for explanatory reporting for his series “The War on Recovery.”
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I’m thrilled to share that I’ve joined @BostonGlobe as a climate reporter! 🌎 Tips, coffee recs, or just want to get in touch? Send me an email at kate.selig 'at' https://t.co/05ICv1qynp. 📫 I’m especially interested in stories about climate adaptation and new technologies.
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Medicaid work requirements will soon be rolled out nationwide under One Big Beautiful Bill Our @bmj_latest study shows what happened to insurance coverage & jobs when Georgia rolled them out in 2023. Featured in @nytimes
https://t.co/PDdmspekyj Read the study:
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A state-level preview of the Big Beautiful Bill’s Medicaid reforms didn’t improve employment or result in gains in insurance coverage.
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AI chatbots make you feel seen, heard, and understood — a tiny yes-man in your ear For NYT, I wrote about the potential harms of AI sycophancy and how to get a more neutral perspective https://t.co/RUZjl94kTF Thanks to @Matt_Nour @RianKMD @emollick @AdamMGrant @RaviDataIyer!
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Chatbots want to be your friend, when what you really need is a neutral perspective.
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If you've worked with @SimarSBajaj, or even just met him, this probably comes as absolutely no surprise. But boy-o-boy, what an accomplishment. Congrats!
The Freelance of the Year #MJAAwards judges have awarded a highly commended to Simar Bajaj — for work published in the @guardian @Nature and @MIT Technology Review Congratulations @SimarSBajaj
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Winner of Feature of the Year, Specialist is @SimarSBajaj for this piece for @Nature on AIDs https://t.co/wpLhQCe6wo Congratulations and thanks to @TheDA_UK for supporting the #MJAAwards
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Nature - An ambitious plan to stop the global threat of AIDS has been derailed. But many are hopeful that progress can be salvaged.
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The Freelance of the Year #MJAAwards judges have awarded a highly commended to Simar Bajaj — for work published in the @guardian @Nature and @MIT Technology Review Congratulations @SimarSBajaj
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I'm absolutely delighted to be named a finalist in the Freelance of the Year category and the Feature of the Year (Specialist) category for my pieces in @nature, @guardian, and @techreview!
🚨 Finalists for the 2025 Medical Journalists' Association Awards are revealed today. #mjaawards
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Please take a look at this compelling article by @SimarSBajaj about #lungcancer in South Africa, published in NPR: https://t.co/gv6OCpnHn4 “Africa's cancer burden, for example, is expected to more than double by 2050, from 370,000 new cases a year to 940,000 cases.”
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Rates of the world's deadliest cancer appear to be low in sub-Saharan Africa. But that statistic is masking the scope of the disease, doctors say.
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Must read in @nytimes this week by @SimarSBajaj: how the "quiet revolution" in care for cardiac amyloid is helping transform a death sentence for patients into a new lease on life: https://t.co/ghFkA7Ozty
@ACCinTouch @JACCJournals
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A quiet revolution in care is helping patients with cardiac amyloidosis, a form of heart failure that long stumped doctors.
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The @nytimes spotlights the new #JACC issue on cardiac #amyloidosis: “New research shows how vutrisiran improves heart relaxation, muscle damage, and more.” Read the full story + issue: https://t.co/LlmzB9INJN
https://t.co/Q67lh5dbVn
@SimarSBajaj @hmkyale @ktkadakia
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A quiet revolution in care is helping patients with cardiac amyloidosis, a form of heart failure that long stumped doctors.
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Rethink 10,000 steps per day. Turns out fewer than 10,000 steps is enough to achieve #health gains. Dr. Nikhil Palekar spoke with @SimarSBajaj @nytimes about a new study. #walking #fitness #dementia #workout @sbudeptofmed
https://t.co/0npmpTPgaf
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A new study identifies the right number to reap the health benefits of walking.
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Please read and share this beautifully written piece by Simar Bajaj (@SimarSBajaj) about LUCAS & mobile #lungcancerscreening in the New York Times. https://t.co/6piZ6dzmWq
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Following the slashing of U.S. funding for global HIV/AIDS programs, @SimarSBajaj set out to learn how developing countries might adapt. "We are on our own," one advocate in Kenya told him. https://t.co/UaY5etcYCk
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Of 49 countries surveyed in a recent analysis, 15 have historically relied on the the U.S. for most of the funding for their HIV/AIDS responses. That funding is largely gone now.
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👀News Analysis of the Year Award #ABSWawards 📣Meet the #finalists 🎉🎉🎉 👉 @SimarSBajaj @guardian 🔗 https://t.co/BxHmBC0vnK 👉 Slavea Chankova @TheEconomist 🔗 https://t.co/WKIYeALtSx 👉 @JessHamzelou @techreview 🔗 https://t.co/lYJI2QyufV
https://t.co/8WPKhTXTDZ
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2024 award winner @migueldobrich is a journalist, educator, and entrepreneur based in Uruguay. His stories use multimedia techniques and visualization tools to illustrate the impacts of climate change at a personal, local level. Learn more: https://t.co/wMmi7rpEDp
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Despite some setbacks, the world WAS doing pretty well against HIV/AIDS, and by some accounts it was on track to rein in the epidemic by 2030. Then came Trump.
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HUGE NEWS... I WROTE A BOOK!!! 🎉📖 I can’t believe I finally get to share this with you. I poured everything I had into this project, and I’m so proud of how it turned out. It’s out October 14th, and available for pre-order now. But, what’s it all about?👇
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Thrilled to share that I was named one of this year's @Forbes 30 Under 30 — in the science and healthcare category! So humbled by this recognition and grateful to all my mentors/collaborators https://t.co/LsDZ4Olv4M
@ForbesUnder30 #ForbesUnder30
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