Olivia Campbell

A white woman with red hair and blue glasses stands in front of green trees
Title: Editor
Education: Johns Hopkins University, MA in Science and Medical Writing, Virginia Commonwealth University, BS in Journalism
Expertise: Parenting, Pregnancy, Postpartum, Fertility/Reproduction
  • Olivia is a health editor for performance marketing at Verywell, where she edits content on health, lifestyle, mental health, and parenting.
  • She is the author of the New York Times best-selling history book “Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine.” 
  • An accomplished health and science journalist, her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, SELF, Parents, and Good Housekeeping, among others.

Experience

Olivia has been writing personal essays and reported features about parenting, pregnancy, maternal health, fertility, and the postpartum period ever since she became a mom back in 2007. She now has three sons and a vast portfolio of bylines from print and online magazines. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, SELF, Parents, Refinery29, HuffPost, and Brain, Child Magazine. 

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. 

Education

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.

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