Moises Velasquez-Manoff is a journalist whose work focuses on health, science, and the environment. Currently, he is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and New York Times Opinion.Velasquez-Manoff's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic monthly, Mother Jones, Scientific American, and Nautilus.Velasquez-Manoff received his M.A. with a concentration in science writing from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. His first book, “An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases,” was published in 2012.