Elisabeth Rosenthal is a medical doctor who writes for The New York Times specializing in epidemic disease, and scientific and environmental matters. She attended Harvard Medical School, did her residency at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and worked at New York Hospital. In 1998, she became a correspondent for The Times's China bureau, where she did important coverage of SARS and AIDS.[1] In particular she wrote on the anti-AIDS campaigner Dr. Gao Yaojie in the early 2000s, at a time when the issue was still sensitive in that country.[2]