Cristine Russell is an award-winning journalist and educator who writes​ about science, health and the environment. ​She​ is a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and an adjunct lecturer in public policy, focusing on media, energy, and environment. She writes on science and the media as a Columbia Journalism Review contributing editor​.​​ Formerly a Washington Post national science and health reporter, Russell​ is ​a past president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and the National Association of Science Writers​. She is ​also active in the World Federation of Science Journalists. ​She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an honorary member of Sigma Xi who graduated with honors in biology from Mills College.