Julia Belluz – Lessons from the trenches of evidence-based health journalism at Vox.com

Format: Videos

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Language/s: English

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Resource Link: View the Video

Target Audience: Self-directed learning

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Short Description:

20-minute talk by Julia Belluz on the need to bring the cultures of health journalism and EBM together.

Key Concepts addressed:

• 1-12 Dramatic treatment effects are rare
• 1-3 Association is not the same as causation
• 3-1 Do the outcomes measured matter to you?

Details

Jullia Beluz, a Canadian journalist speaks at ‘Evidence Live’ 2016 about the need to bring the cultures of health journalism and Evidence-Based Medicine together, to discourage claims based only on correlations, anecdotes or single studies.

Narrowing the research-reporting gap requires better reporting, using visuals to a greater extent, and reaching out to different audiences, for example, through SnapChat.