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Physician and multidisciplinary researcher Dr. Seema Yasmin recently joined the faculty of UT Dallas as a professor in practice in addition to her new role as a staff writer at The Dallas Morning News. At UT Dallas, Yasmin teaches classes on public health topics and provides mentorship for young women who are pursuing degrees in the sciences.

She covers public health for The Dallas Morning News , and has written stories on issues including immigration and the deadly Ebola virus.

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She earned her medical degree from the University of Cambridge and has worked in Botswana and Kenya as well as England. Her interest in public health and medicine began before she embarked on her undergraduate degree. She worked as a volunteer for an HIV organization focused on the needs of teenagers affected with the disease. After her medical training, she worked as a physician at Homerton University Hospital outside London.

During her time there, she studied disease outbreaks including the West Nile virus, whooping cough and botulism.

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Her role at UT Dallas will include teaching undergraduate classes on public health. Yasmin said she plans to incorporate topical issues that offer concrete examples of disease outbreaks and the efforts needed to contain them. George Fair , dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies , said this is the first semester a public health course has been offered since the health care studies program began in By Office of Media Relations Oct.

Seema Yasmin. Yasmin has appeared on several television and radio broadcasts to discuss the virus. Resident Ebola Expert Dr. The following links are a sampling of her recent interviews: Will Screening for Ebola at Airports Work?