Joseph Osmundson

Joseph Osmundson (born 1983) is an American scientist, writer, and queer health advocate known for his essays exploring viruses, queerness, race, and geography, with notable works including Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between (2022, W.W. Norton, finalist for Lambda Literary Award and National Book Critics Circle Award), Capsid: A Love Song (2016, winner of POZ Award for best HIV writing and Lambda Literary Award finalist), and INSIDE/OUT (2018). A Clinical Associate Professor of Biology at NYU with a PhD from Rockefeller University, his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and he was named to the TIME Next 100 list in 2022 for mpox vaccine efforts. JosephOsmundson.com, NYU LinkedIn