Join health and media researchers, health practitioners and journalists as they present the findings of recent studies, discuss the challenges they faced, and evaluate the media’s reporting and analysis.

• How well has the media handled the demands of reporting on and analyzing the biggest pandemic in a century?
• What have we learnt?
• Has media coverage been of overall benefit for health consumers?

Featuring:

• Professor Kerry McCallum, News and Media Research Centre; University of Canberra
• Dr Norman Swan, Physician and Journalist, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Jennifer Doggett, Journalist, Croakey Health Media
• Dr Sanjaya Senanayake, Infectious Diseases Specialist
• John Flannery, Public Affairs Director, Healing Foundation

12:30 - 1:30pm (AEDT), Wednesday 3 November 2021

Free, but registrations essential. Register here.

Presented by ABC Friends, Consumers Health Forum and the Public Health Association of Australia

You can download a PDF with the event information here.