Deb is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist based at the University of Maryland, home of the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism. She co-authored a series at The Seattle Times that won a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and was project editor on Pulitzer-winning series at the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post. Since joining academe, she has co-authored series on climate change, superbugs, military housing and environment for Reuters that received top awards from the National Academies of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Overseas Press Club, Scripps Howard Foundation, Sidney Hillman Foundation, John B. Oakes, Society of Professional Journalists, White House Correspondents' Association, National Press Club and others. Most recently, she co-authored "Bat Lands," a Reuters series examining the environmental drivers of past and future disease outbreaks. She also wrote "The War Behind Me," a critically acclaimed book on the U.S. war in Vietnam, and led development of a global journalism curriculum on international criminal justice and tribunals for The Salzurg Global Seminar.