Maria Cheng is the London-based medical writer for the U.S. news agency Associated Press.
She was part of an AP team behind a series of stories on the early response to COVID by China and the World Health Organization that won an Overseas Press Club award and was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting in 2021.
She previously worked at the U.N. health agency in Geneva during the 2003 SARS outbreak and is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She is a native of Canada.
