Seminar - Healthy Journalism: challenges and solutions
20 April 2010, 6pm, Wellcome Trust, London.

This PiF seminar, held in conjunction with The Wellcome Trust, looks at health journalism and explores the challenges and solutions involved in producing information for the public. The seminar is aimed at journalists, journalism students and press officers and aims to:

    * Understand the challenges facing healthcare journalists
    * Gain deeper understanding of what constitutes evidence
    * Identify ways to avoid misreporting
    * Meet up to share and learn from each other’s experiences

Sessions include:

• Making healthcare reporting more accurate - Jacqui Thornton, Former Health Editor, The Sun
• How scientists can help journalists- Ginny Barbour, Chief Editor PLoS Medicine, Public Library of Science
• Evidence: understanding it and reporting it - Andrew Booth, Head of Information Services at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield
• What's the impact of all this on patients? - Martin Ledwick, Head of Cancer Information Nurses, Cancer Research UK .
  

We will publish a short report capturing the presentations and main outcomes from the day, which will be posted on the PiF website.

This evening seminar will open at 6.00pm and start promptly at 6.30pm with a range of presentations, followed by an action-orientated discussion.  Formal proceedings will finish at 8.45pm and be followed by an informal drinks reception.

It will be held at The Wellcome Trust, Floor 6, Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.

The seminar is free to attend. Places are limited to 50.

If you would like to attend please complete the booking form before 9 April 2010.  Please feel free to circulate this invitation to interested colleagues and networks. If you are unable to open the form, please contact Nicole Naylor at secretary@pifonline.org.uk  for a copy.

This seminar has kindly been supported and hosted by The Wellcome Trust.

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