Neha Madhira

Neha Madhira is an award-winning journalist with a focus on geopolitical analysis, health, and human rights in the Middle East and North African region and South Asia. Before this, she was a breaking news reporter and spent several months researching how the global Covid-19 pandemic impacted health care systems and education domestically and abroad. As a spotlight was shone on these systemic problems, she covered international communities that were disproportionately impacted for the Women’s Media Center as an Editorial Board Member. She reconciled with numerous women’s health and human rights issues, which she began reporting on as a freelancer in 2021. Since shifting her research, she has developed an expertise in emphasizing community voices across borders. For the past three years, she has been working with journalists and NGOs to extensively cover the Zan, Zendegi, Azadi revolution in Iran. Since October 2023, she has been researching and reporting on the complete collapse of medical infrastructure and war crimes committed in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as separate attacks on Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen by Israel and the U.S.