Heidi Tworek

Dr. Heidi Tworek is associate professor of international history and public policy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation as well as a non-resident fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Her most recent book is the multi-award-winning News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945 (Harvard University Press, 2019). She is currently writing about the history and policy of health communications; an article on that project appeared in the American Historical Review in 2019 entitled “Communicable Disease: Information, Health, and Globalization in the Interwar Period.” She received her PhD in History from Harvard University and BA (Hons) from University of Cambridge.