Nora J. Kenworthy

Kenworthy is a writer, professor, and public health expert whose work examines how politics, technology, and inequality affect health. She is the author of Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare (MIT Press, 2024), and of the award-winning ethnography, Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho (Vanderbilt University Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in scholarly journals such as the American Journal of Public Health and Social Science & Medicine; she has also written for Scientific American, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and a BA from Williams College.