SweSwe Aye

SweSwe Aye is an editor and reporter of Mandalay Gazette and Myanmar Gazette community newspaper published in Los Angeles since 2006. She is also a freelance writer and wrote hundreds of articles, interviews and poems in the journals and magazines published in Myanmar(Burma) since 1997. Most of her work during COVID-19 pandemic focused on the beginning of the outbreak. She graduated Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from University of Medicine Yangon in 2004. When she was a 2nd year medical student in 1998, she worked an editor of University of Medicine Yangon magazine and covered the poems and articles for the magazine too. She speaks Burmese. To To learn more about her Fellowship project and collaboration with the Center for Health Journalism, visit: "Fighting COVID misinformation in her immigrant community in a bid to save lives."