Anahad O'Connor

{{short description|American journalist (born 1981)}}

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|birth_place=New York City, U.S.

|alma_mater=Yale University

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• Journalist
• staff reporter

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Anahad O'Connor (born May 23, 1981) is an American journalist and staff reporter for The New York Times. He joined the Times in 2003{{dead link|date=June 2025}} and writes about consumer health, science and national issues. He is also a bestselling author.

O'Connor was born and grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He studied neuroscience and has a degree in psychology from Yale University. His book The 10 Things You Need to Eat made The New York Times Bestseller list in 2010.

{{cite web|url=https://frenchamerican.org/anahad-oconnor|title=Anahad O'Connor |date=2011 |website=frenchamerican.org |publisher=French–American Foundation |access-date=13 September 2016}}{{dead link|date=June 2025}} He was part of the first class of the New York Times College Scholarship Program in 1999.

{{cite book|last1=O'Connor|first1=Anahad|title=Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live In|isbn=978-0-8050-8312-5|year=2007|page={{page needed|date=December 2020}}|publisher=Henry Holt and Company }}