Jane E. Brody
Jane E. Brody is the Personal Health columnist for The New York Times, a position she has held since 1976. Ms. Brody’s widely read and quoted column appears in The Times’s Science Times section and in scores of other newspapers around the country. She joined The Times in 1965 as a full-time specialist in medicine and biology, after serving two years as a general assignment reporter for The Minneapolis Tribune.
Ms. Brody has also written many magazine articles and lectures frequently on health issues to audiences both lay and professional. She has written more than a dozen books including the best sellers Jane Brody’s Nutrition Book and Jane Brody’s Good Food Book. Her other books include The New York Times Book of Health and The New York Times Book of Women’s Health. She is co-author of The New York Times Guide to Alternative Health, published in 2001.
Ms. Brody received her B.S. degree in biochemistry from the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University in 1962 and a master’s degree in science writing from the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism the following year.