About Marilyn Chase
Marilyn Chase, a health sciences and biotech reporter for more than two decades at The Wall Street Journal, is currently a Lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She is author of The Barbary Plague (Random House, 2003) and freelances for publications including Kaiser Health News and Harvard Magazine.
Published Stories:
- "One Less Investment Banker: Chung To Quit Wall Street to Sponsor Schooling for China's Blood Orphans"
- Harvard Magazine
- Marilyn Chase, UC Berkeley Lecturer, writes in Harvard Magazine about a Wall Street investment banker who gave up a career in finance to launch a small AIDS charity in China, addressing one of the most sensitive and vulnerable populations in the country: youth orphaned by a blood-selling scheme gone awry.
Books:
- The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in victorian San Francisco
Bubonic Plague sailed through the Golden Gate with shipboad rats that stowed away on then steamer The Australia. As they infiltrated the city's Chinatown, they spread a deadly outbreak that triggered a wave of racist scapegoating, denial and cover-up by politicians - in a foreshadowing of bungled epidemics to come.
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