Olivia Campbell

Olivia is a health editor for performance marketing at Verywell. She has more than a decade of experience writing about science, health, and parenting topics. Her articles and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, SELF, Scientific American, Refinery29, HuffPost, Rural Health Quarterly, and Good Housekeeping, among others.

She wrote a column for New York Magazine’s “Science of Us” vertical covering topics in social psychology and public health. Of all the issues she’s covered, Olivia’s candid essays on her experience with disordered eating, anxiety, and the postpartum period have earned her the most reader mail.   

Olivia’s first book, “Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine” was published in 2021 and made the New York Times best-seller list. She is hard at work on her second book, “A Flame of Hope: The Women Physicists Who Fled Nazi Germany.”

Read more about her work at www.ocampbellwriter.com. 

Olivia earned a master’s degree in science and medical writing from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor's degree in journalism from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a member of the National Association of Science Writers.