Simar Bajaj
New York Times Reporter | Harvard ‘24, Oxford ’25, Stanford Med ’30 | Forbes 30 Under 30, Marshall Scholar, FPA Science Story of Year, National Academies Top Early-Career Journalist
- Role
- Fellow at The New York Times
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Simar Bajaj
Simar Bajaj is a Well Fellow at the New York Times. He studied Global Health Science and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar and graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University. He is interested in healthcare delivery and equity in medicine. His research has spanned oncological disparities to health policy transformation with first-author work in The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine, British Medical Journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Annals of Surgery. Simar is also an award-winning journalist, writing for The Atlantic, Economist, Washington Post, Guardian, TIME, National Geographic, and NPR. In addition to being named Forbes 30 Under 30, he has won the Foreign Press Association\'s Science Story of the Year and was named the top early-career science journalist by the National Academies. With 95+ manuscripts in peer-reviewed medical journals and 140+ in the popular press, Simar believes writing is a tool for civic engagement. Finally, Simar hosted That Medic Podcast, led the World Pre-Health Conference for 2500+ students from 100+ countries, interned with the Office of Minority Health at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, chaired the Health Policy Program at the Kennedy School Institute of Politics, and served as Washington DC reporter for STAT, covering stigmatized diseases and health policy.
Experience
Fellow
Jun 2025 — Present · New York, NY, US
Write about health and wellness, selected as one of 30 fellows out of a pool of 3200 applicants
Education
University of Oxford
Master's degree, Global Health Science and Epidemiology
2024 — 2025
Harvard University
Bachelor's degree, Chemistry & History of Science, Secondary in Global Health & Health Policy
2020 — 2024
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