Title: Communicating Global Health

Date: Wednesday 28th January

Time: 2-3pm, tea and coffee will be served from 1.30pm

Venue: 103B, Clarice Pears Building

Presenter: Dr Gavin Cleaver 

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Abstract

How do we communicate scientific research in an age of misinformation? What role do journals play? How can the scientific community defend itself? In this lecture, we will explore historical difficulties in communicating knowledge, the role of publishing, the internet, and social media in the dissemination of factual information, and what you, as academics, can do about it.

Biography

Gavin Cleaver received his PhD in Political Theory from Cardiff, and lectured on theoretical approaches to the welfare state, practical ethics, and historical theories of liberalism at Cardiff and UWE. He went on to become a journalist, working across the Village Voice chain of newspapers in the US, before settling into the intersection of journalism and academia at The Lancet, where over the last decade he’s had every job from curating the website to organising newsletters, and from managing The Lancet’s podcast output to now working as a Senior Editor at The Lancet Global Health. Gavin is particularly interested in justice and equity, the politics of global health, and theories of knowledge.

First published: 12 January 2026

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