Layal Liverpool is a science journalist and author based in Berlin, Germany. Her upcoming book
Systemic, about the health harms of racism, will be published in June 2024.
Layal's journalism has spanned diverse science topics, including technology, physics, the environment and health,
with a particular focus on inequalities in science, health and medicine. Her writing has appeared in
Nature,
New Scientist,
WIRED,
the Guardian,
and elsewhere, and she has worked on staff as a reporter for both Nature and New Scientist.
Before moving into journalism, Layal worked as a biomedical researcher at University College London and
the University of Oxford in the UK. She has a PhD in virology and immunology from the University of Oxford.
Layal’s upcoming book Systemic is an investigation of the shocking and insidious ways in which racism harms
health – and an exploration of how we can tackle the problem to create a fairer and healthier world. It is out 6 June 2024
in the UK and 18 June 2024 in the US.
Systemic: How Racism is Making Us Ill
Bloomsbury Publishing, UK
Systemic: How Racism is Making Us Sick
Astra House Publishing, US
Dr. Layal Liverpool
Layal is currently on parental leave. For publicity enquiries related to her book Systemic, please contact Hayley Camis hayley.camis@bloomsbury.com (UK) or Emily Lavelle Emilylavellecommunications@outlook.com (US). For other book-related enquiries, please contact Layal via her literary agent Will Francis wfrancis@janklow.co.uk.