Philip J. Hilts

Philip J. Hilts, an author and journalist, was a Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. He is the author of Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business and One Hundred Years of Regulation. The book received the Los Angeles Times Book Award for the best science and technology book published in 2006. His book Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover Up was selected as one of the ten best books of the year by Business Week. Hilts had had a long career in journalism, beginning as a reporter and photographer for the Virginia Sentinel in 1969 and, more recently, as a health and science writer for The New York Times (1989–2002) and national staff writer for the Washington Post (1980–1989). While at the Shorenstein Center, Hilts wrote about press coverage of global health issues.