Martin Enserink
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Martin Enserink is a deputy news editor at Science magazine. He edits and writes stories about infectious diseases, global health, science policy, and scientific misconduct.
A native of the Netherlands, he has a master's degree in biology from the University of Groningen. He was based at Science's headquarters in Washington, D.C., for five years and spent eight years as a correspondent in Paris. He now lives in Amsterdam, where he edits Science’s global health news.
Enserink was awarded the Communications Award of the American Society for Microbiology in 2004, 2008, and 2012. In 2019, his story about the eradication of yaws, a disfiguring bacterial disease, won the Communications Award from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
He has mentored science reporters in Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, and Zimbabwe as part of a program run by the World Federation of Science Journalists. Along with Helen Branswell, Enserink also designed and wrote the online course "Covering Ebola."
