Perhaps you’ve covered a single study for a quick daily news piece, but it’s time to take your skills further. A panel at Health Journalism 2019 reviewed the basics of reading, interpreting and scrutinizing medical studies – study types, common stats, risk types, pitfalls to avoid and more. The panel covered sussing out the clinical relevance of study to tackling policy research to figuring out how to turn an obscure stat into a meaningful finding for your readers. Here are the presentations from the speakers.
Ishani Ganguli, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of General Internal Medicine [Presentation]
Regina Nuzzo, Ph.D., freelance journalist; professor of science, technology and mathematics, Gallaudet University [Presentation]
