European Health Journalism - Conference (Coventry)

COVENTRY - This innovative conference will bring together health journalists and educators from at least ten European countries and from the USA.

Health journalists are required to take on a wide range of stories covering the full spectrum from individual human interest stories, through complex medical research, to explaining and assessing multi-million euro projects and sweeping health system reforms.
Health journalists - in print, online or broadcast on TV, radio or new media - are the only source of information for the vast majority of the population. But who trains the health journalists themselves?

This innovative conference will bring together health journalists and educators from at least ten European countries and from the USA.
Organised by Coventry University, it draws on the expertise of the Association of Health Care Journalists, the UK’s Medical Journalists Association, and the EU-funded HeaRT project on the training of health journalists in Europe.

It offers a rich resource in terms of information, guidance and potential stories, offering those who participate the chance to network, discuss, compare and evaluate their work with colleagues in other countries.
Speakers include

• Trudy Lieberman immediate past president AHCJ (US)
• John Lister Senior Lecturer in Health Journalism, Coventry University
• Afroditi Veloudaki (Greece: Director of HeaRT Health Reporter Training project)
• Gary Schwitzer publisher of HealthNewsReview.org
• Gianluca Bruttomesso (Unamsi, the National Union of Italian Medical Writers)
• Charlie Ornstein (President, AHCJ, Senior Reporter ProPublica)
• Esther Paniagua (Spain)
• Françoise Clouzeau National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence, (NICE) UK
• John Illman President Medical Journalists Association
• Ivan Oransky (Executive Editor, Reuters Health)
• Donnacha De Long (President, National Union of Journalists)
• CONNIE St LOUIS Senior Lecturer in Scientific Journalism, City University, London