Shayna Korol
Future Perfect fellow
Shayna Korol is a Future Perfect fellow, Vox’s section on making the world a better place. She reports on emerging technology, biosecurity, and human and animal health. She was previously a Program Associate and Biosecurity Policy Fellow on the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Global Biological Policy & Programs Team (NTI | bio). She also previously worked as a reporter for BioNews Services, covering rare diseases and drug discovery. She is very interested catastrophic risk reduction.
Shayna was an inaugural Horizon Institute for Public Service Fellow. She has a bachelor’s degree in Health: Science, Society, and Policy from Brandeis University and an MS in Biohazardous Threat Agents and Emerging Infectious Diseases from Georgetown University. She is currently based in Washington DC, but enjoys traveling throughout the country in search of great hiking trails. You can reach her at shayna.korol@voxmedia.com.
Latest articles by Shayna Korol
AI isn’t going to be the end of the world — no matter what this documentary sometimes argues.
Protecting astronauts in space — and maybe even Mars — will help transform health on Earth.
We discovered its cause 144 years ago. It’s still a massive problem.
Inside the unprecedented early return from the International Space Station.
Don’t let AI steal your heart — or your money.
This undersung service saves Americans $3.1 billion every year. Why aren’t we funding them more?
Satellites are our only insight into the ongoing conflict — and worth protecting.
From the state of democracy to the chance of a recession, here’s what could happen in 2026.
8 ways the administration has undermined data collection this year.
It’s been a long road to ensure that testing on human subjects is ethical. AI could send us backward.