Mary-Rose Abraham is an award-winning multimedia journalist, with experience as a writer, anchor/host and producer of video and audio.

Her stories have featured in ABC News, Atlas Obscura, BBC News, Civil Eats, Deutsche Welle, The Guardian, Marketplace Radio, National Geographic and NPR.

Currently, she is the senior science writer for UCLA Health / David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Her cover feature for UCLA Health Magazine was honored with AAMC‘s Gold Award for storytelling excellence in academic medicine in 2025.

Mary-Rose was a 2022-23 Fellow at the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

For more than seven years, she was based in Bangalore, India, as an independent journalist, reporting on health/medicine and the environment. She was the co-creator and co-host of Scrolls & Leaves, a world history podcast. Previously, she was a staff producer at ABC News in New York, and a researcher at NBC News.

Mary-Rose was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She has a bachelor’s degree in biology from UCLA and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, from which she graduated with honors and was awarded the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship as one of the top five students in her class.

She has traveled to 42 countries. Her most memorable solo journeys are a six-month backpacking trip across Europe and India; five weeks traveling across Turkey; and a 6,400-mile drive from New York City to Los Angeles over 33 days.

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