Dr. Amelia Warshaw has written for numerous media outlets including AAMC News, Medscape, The Daily Beast, and The Daily Beast, AOA’s The Pharos, and Princeton University’s Innovation Journal of Science and Technology.

Through her medical work and her writing, Dr. Warshaw is committed to disseminating science, health, and medical information to a diverse audience, and empowering children, adolescents, and families through health literacy. 

In 2020, during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic—while a fourth-year medical student—Amelia worked for the Rhode Island Department of Health, answering up to 100 calls a day from doctors, pharmacists, lab technicians, officers at the local prison, CEOs of companies, managers of restaurants, patients, parents, and children, all seeking medical guidance and personal reassurance

This short essay is about that experience.

From 2016-2017, between college and medical school, Amelia worked as a writer for The Daily Beast's Technology + Health section, assisted in research for the Politics team, and served as General Editorial Intern.

In 2014, Amelia was the Global Health Projects and Outreach Intern at the Pulitzer Center and also wrote numerous blog posts related to Pulitzer Center reporting, focusing on global health projects involving malaria, polio, HIV, and other critical medical issues. 

Amelia has also written for other media outlets, including Medscape, Murmur, The Funky Feminist, and Innovation, Princeton University's premiere science publication, where she also served as Editor.