Mindy Kitei

Mindy Kitei is a health and science journalist who’s covered ME since 1994. That year, her investigative piece for Philadelphia magazine on the experimental drug Ampligen in “The AIDS Drug No One Can Have” exposed government neglect toward desperately ill ME and HIV/AIDS patients. Ampligen is now being trialed for long Covid.

Kitei is the writer and co-author of Sugars That Heal for Ballantine Books, a former associate editor at Philadelphia magazine and TV Guide, the former science columnist for Applause magazine, and a former adjunct professor of journalism at Temple University. From 2010 to 2015, she ran the blog CFS Central with a worldwide following, chronicling ME research (and lack thereof).

Kitei is a graduate of Friends Select School, the University of Pennsylvania and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.