Simar Bajaj

@SimarSBajaj

Stanford Medicine '30 | Harvard '24, Oxford '25 | @KnightHennessy @NYTimes Fellow, @MarshallScholar, @ForbesUnder30, @AAASKavli, @SciCommAwards

New York City

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Simar Bajaj
@SimarSBajaj
Jun 3, 2025
Yesterday was my first day at the @NYTimes! Honored to be reporting about health and wellness for a year — and let me know if you have any ideas and tips I also reckon there's never been a better time for you to sign up for the Well newsletter!
Simar Bajaj
@SimarSBajaj
Jul 20
The sewer knows what you ate! For New York Times, I wrote about the scientists sifting through urine and poop to sequence food DNA, finding traces of chocolate, lettuce, turkey, blueberries, black pepper, and hundreds of other foods — for less than a penny a person. (1/n)
Simar Bajaj
@SimarSBajaj
Jun 8
Every week, the New York Times publishes one piece of ideas-driven journalism, explaining a complex problem or illuminating an important way of thinking. Last week, they chose my story on the return of blaming and shaming in public health for the "Ideas" section. For decades,
Simar Bajaj
@SimarSBajaj
May 8
Half of patients with Stage IV lung cancer don't receive any life-extending treatments. For @nytimes , I explored this sobering statistic and why so many people with the nation's deadliest cancer go without care. According to a new @JAMAOnc study of 250,000+ Medicare patients,
Half of Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer Don’t Get Treatment, Study Finds (Gift Article)
From nytimes.com
Simar Bajaj
@SimarSBajaj
Feb 10
I took over The Morning! To tell you to talk to your parents. It's the flagship newsletter of @nytimes with over 17 million subscribers. And on Super Bowl Sunday, I hosted the newsletter, writing a column about what conversations you need to have with your parents — before an
5 Conversations to Have With Your Aging Parents (Gift Article)
From nytimes.com