Randi Hutter Epstein

Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D. is a medical author and freelance journalist. Her work explores the intersections of science and society. Randi is the author of Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything(W.W.Norton, 2018) which has been translated into a dozen languages and was named a “best book of 2018,” by Science News and a Forbes “favorite brain book of 2018.”  Her first book, Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank was published by Norton in 2010. 

Randi began her journalism career more than thirty years ago as a medical writer for the London bureau of the Associated Press. She covered breaking medical news and also wrote medical features. She also served as London bureau chief for Physician’s Weekly. Since then, she has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Slate, the Daily Telegraph, and several national magazines.  

Randi is also the Writer in Residence at Yale School of Medicine, and a lecturer in the English Department at Yale College. She received an M.D. from Yale University, an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, an M.P.H. from the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1996, she was a Reuter Foundation Fellow for Medical Journalists at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University.