Corinne Purtill is a health and science reporter for The Los Angeles Times. Her writing on science and human behavior has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time, the BBC, and elsewhere. Before joining the Times in 2022, she worked as the senior London correspondent for GlobalPost (now PRI) and as a reporter and assignment editor at The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. Her writing and reporting have been recognized by the California Journalism Awards, the Best of the West Awards, Best American Science and Nature Writing, and Best American Essays.