Please join us for this free webinar:
“What We’ve Learned: Working with Journalists Across Europe on Health Reporting” with John Lister
John Lister is a UK-based journalist with broad experience in health policy issues. He is part of a 7-country European Union-funded project to improve health reporting. (Detailed bio. below).
DETAILS: Tuesday, May 14th at 9:00 – 10:00 AM PDT / 11:00 – 12:00 PM CDT / 12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT
Please RSVP to [email protected] by Monday, May 6th.
Feel free to invite any colleagues who may also be interested in attending.
We will be utilizing a combination of Adobe Connect and teleconferencing for this session. To connect, you will need a computer with internet access and a telephone line. You will receive an email confirmation on May 7th containing all access information.
About John Lister: John has written and researched extensively on health services and health policy issues for trade union and other organisations for over 28 years. His PhD thesis (2004) was a comparative study of market-style reforms on health care systems around the world, a revised version of which was published in 2005 as Health Policy Reform, Driving the Wrong Way? by Middlesex University Press – subsequently translated into a top-selling Turkish edition. In 2008, to mark the 60th anniversary of the National Health Service, John researched and wrote a major book, The NHS After 60, for Patients or Profits, (still the most up to date history of the NHS).
In June 2009 he organised with the International Association of Health Policy in Europe, a successful international conference on “Health care marketing reforms and the media” hosted by Coventry University, and has subsequently published the papers from this with an introduction as: ‘Europe’s Health For Sale’ (2011: Libri Publishing).
John is a joint chair of the Standing Orders Committee of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ member 35 years), and a member of the Medical Journalists’ Union, the Guild of Health Writers, and the Association of Health Care Journalists (US-based) for whom he helps edit a European web page. He also researches, writes, edits and designs tabloid newspapers for 12 major branches of UNISON, the UK’s largest health trade union. As well as this, he has conducted research and publicity work on a variety of issues for regions and branches of UNISON as well as UNISON national office, other trade unions and local campaigns. In 2009-2010 he was also commissioned by the BMA to research and write a mass circulation peer-reviewed pamphlet, ‘Warning! NHS market reforms are damaging our health service,’ and two major reports on London, as well as speaking from the platform at a 400-strong meeting in BMA headquarters in London
John is a founder member of Keep Our NHS Public campaign, and has been a board member since 2005. He is a regular public speaker at meetings on NHS issues in England and has carried out successful PR promotion of London Health Emergency since 1984, issuing press releases, responding to media enquiries and giving interviews and comments to press radio and TV across London and nationwide.
Until the end of 2012, John was also involved in a 7-country EU-funded project to improve the training of Health Reporters, developing and rolling out a package of training, and evaluating the results.
For more information, contact:
Kathleen O’Grady (613) 897-9276
This free ebook is a compilation of the EvidenceNetwork.ca commentaries published in major newspapers in 2015, written by experts in the health policy field.
