Inconvenient Truths: How Scientists are Being Silenced Around the World

Deborah Cohen

Dr Deborah Cohen is an award winning medically qualified broadcaster, journalist and editor, who has worked across mainstream and academic print, digital, TV and radio. Currently, Dr. Cohen is a visiting senior fellow at LSE Health.

Having established the investigations unit at The BMJ, one of the world-leading medical and health policy journals, she specialises in complex investigations combining rigorous data analysis with journalism. Dr Cohen was recently science editor of ITV News and UK and health correspondent for BBC Newsnight leading their Covid-19 coverage. With several major investigations for BBC Panorama, Channel 4 Dispatches, ITV Tonight and BBC’s File on Four, Dr Cohen’s work has contributed to major changes in health policy and medical practice. It has led to questions being asked in parliaments around the world.

Her work has also garnered international media coverage and has been the basis of Netflix documentaries and global investigations.In addition to her experience working at the interface of the mainstream media and academia, Dr Cohen has substantial experience helping nervous doctors and scientists tell their stories and get critical information out into the public domain.

Paul Garner, MB BS MD

Paul Garner is Professor emeritus in evidence-based public health in infectious diseases. A medic, he trained in London, he worked in Papua New Guinea; then to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and then the Liverpool School. He was part of the team that set up Cochrane, and worked for 30 years in infectious diseases and guideline development. Paul developed the post-COVID-19 condition, and recovered using neuroplastic strategies.

Hannah Little

Dr Hannah Little is a lecturer in communication and media at the University of Liverpool and was previously a senior lecturer in the Science Communication Unit at UWE Bristol. As well as being an academic in science communication, she has worked professionally in science communication in the UK for more than a decade and has well-received appearances at the British Science Festival, TEDx and on BBC Radio 4.  Hannah is on the board of directors for Open Rights Group, a UK-based digital rights advocacy organisation that campaigns for privacy and freedom of speech online.