Sam Loewenberg is a journalist, editor, and communications strategist working at the intersection of global health, business, government and politics. He was the 2011–2012 Nieman Foundation Global Health Reporting Fellow at Harvard University and a 2014–15 reporting fellow at the Project on Public Narrative at the Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard Law School. He was named by the One Campaign as a journalist whose work is making a difference.
From late 2019 until early 2026, Sam served as a speechwriter for the Director-General of the World Health Organization, starting his job just a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. During the previous two years, he did strategic and policy communications for the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, which included producing the landmark WHE 2018 Annual Report, a film on pandemic influenza for the World Health Assembly, and multimedia projects on pandemic flu and emergency preparedness and response.
His articles and photos have appeared in The New York Times, The Economist, The Guardian, The Times, Die Zeit, El Pais, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Fortune, Forbes, Slate, Salon, Science, Scientific American, The Advocate, Playboy, The Journal of Molecular Oncology, and The Lancet. He shot and produced two short documentaries for PBS and consulted on the Errol Morris documentary on Donald Rumsfeld.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Sam attended public schools. He is an alumnus of The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and was a MacCracken Fellow in the graduate program in American Studies at New York University. He has received journalism grants from the German Marshall Fund of the United States and The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and earned a master’s degree as a 2002 Knight-Bagehot Journalism Fellow in Business and Economics at Columbia University. He has taught in the Harvard summer writing program, and has lectured at Harvard, MIT, The University of Chicago, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.