Health Communicator of the Year 2010 Finalists' Showcase

Health Communicator of the Year

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Celebrating an individual who has shown excellence in promoting understanding of medicine and health through the media.
Champion: Trevor Jackson, Magazine Editor, BMJ

Sarah Boseley – Health Editor, theGuardian. London, England
Sarah Boseley has many years of experience as a health editor for the Guardian. But over the past year she has written articles about the reality of the lack of access to essential medicines for poor people in the developing world, particularly in Uganda. In an article titled “Scandal of Africa’s missing medicines,” published last October, she sought to unpick the reasons why poor people lacked access to generics, which cost pennies.

Madeleine Brindley – Health Editor, Western Mail. Cardiff, Wales
Madeleine Brindley’s stories repeatedly highlight the dangers of unmanned sun tanning salons and illustrate how there is no meaningful way of controlling the dose of ultraviolet rays. Her coverage has helped increase public understanding of the risks associated with sunbed use and has influenced policy making in Wales.

Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner – Directors of Pilgrim Projects and founders of the Patient Voices Programme, Pilgrim Projects. Cambridge, England
Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner for their Pilgrim Projects Patient Voices programme, an internet based digital storytelling scheme (www.patientvoices.org.uk). Their website allows viewers to get an immediate glimpse into the lives of those who deliver and those who receive care.

Fergus Walsh – Medical Correspondent, BBC. England
The BBC’s medical correspondent, Fergus Walsh, was shortlisted for a variety of broadcast and online news items, which included coverage of the outbreak and development of H1N1, the swine flu pandemic, and which sought to make difficult concepts in medical science, including risk and responsibility, accessible to a lay audience.