Madeline Drexler

Madeline Drexler is a Boston-based journalist and the former editor of Harvard Public Health magazine. She has been a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow.

Drexler’s books include The World Exists to Set Us Free: Straight-Up Dharma for Living a Life of Awareness (with Larry Rosenberg) (2025); The People’s Pandemic: How the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan Staged a World-Class Response to COVID-19 (2022); A Splendid Isolation: Lessons on Happiness from the Kingdom of Bhutan (2014); and Emerging Epidemics: The Menace of New Infections (2003, 2010). Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times, Undark, Virginia Quarterly Review, Tricycle, Best American Travel Writing, and many other publications.

Drexler has received numerous national awards for feature writing and has been reporting extensively from the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan since 2012. Her articles have been featured on CNN and the BBC. She began her career as a staff photographer for the Associated Press.

For more information, go to her LinkedIn profile.