Health Communicator of the Year finalists' showcase

 Category sponsored by:

Mr Tom Gibb, Film Maker, UK
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Tom has been shortlisted for the documentary film “A Trial For Life”, which tells the story of the DART Clinical Trial (Developing Anti- Retroviral Therapy in Africa). DART was the largest and longest running HIV/AIDS treatment trial ever conducted in Africa, and was made in collaboration with the Medical Research Council.

Dr Ann McPherson, Medical Director, DIPEx Health Experiences Research Group, University of Oxford, UK

Ann founded DIPEx in 2001, inspired by having been diagnosed herself with breast cancer two years earlier and her appreciation of the need to expand the knowledge base of the subjective experience of illness. Ten years on, DIPEx has sections on 60 different illnesses based on interviews with over 2000 patients.

  Mr Fergus Walsh, BBC Medical Correspondent, UK

Fergus covers a huge range of health and medical research stories for the BBC. In June 2010 Fergus became the first person to have all their genes sequenced by the NHS. The report is typical of how he is able to take a hugely complex subject, explain the science to a largely lay audience, and keep them interested.