DataharvestEIJC2020: Full Schedule

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14:00 CEST

Crash Course evidence based medicine for Journos / 1

Part One: Evidence-Based Medicine thinking and methods for muckraking.
Bringing together Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and investigative journalism thinking and methods can dramatically improve the quality of your reporting.
In this Part One of Dataharvest Digital “crash course”, we’ll work together on several key concepts of EBM. How do you assess the level of evidence? What should you make out of numbers and experts’ statements, and how do you spot the flaws in the government public health communication? With concrete examples out of these COVID-19 months, and tips to avoid common pitfalls in medical investigative reporting..

Moderators

Ruben Brugnera

Freelance investigative journalist

Freelance investigative reporter, based in Brussels, Belgium. Expertise in lobbying, regulation of technologies, health, environment, EU, injustice, social exclusion. Has participated in several crossborder investigations. Lecturer in journalistic research at Thomas More Hogeschool... Read More →

Speakers

Serena Tinari

Founder, Re-Check

I’m an investigative journalist interested in health, human rights and cyber security. Along with fellow Catherine Riva I founded www.re-check.ch.We are two experienced Swiss muckrakers that like to scoop in the backstage of public health: Re-Check specializes in investigating and... Read More →

Tuesday September 8, 2020 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
TBA

Public health, Presentation

15:00 CEST

Hands-on: Evidence Based Medicine applied to COVID19: Tests, Masks and Lazarettos

Tom Jefferson, an expert in infectious and respiratory diseases, has been working hard in 2009-2011 on investigating Swine Flu and related vaccines, drugs. Since many months, he has revised and is reviewing and synthetizing the evidence on Covid-19. He published dozens of rapid reviews on the Oxford Center for Evidence-Based Medicine “Covid-19 Evidence Service” (https://www.cebm.net/oxford-covid-19-evidence-service/).
In this panel, he will show us what the best available evidence tell about the benefit of wearing face masks, and will convey the available scientific facts on what a PCR test can and can’t say.

Moderators

Ruben Brugnera

Freelance investigative journalist

Serena Tinari

Founder, Re-Check

Speakers

Tom Jefferson

Tom Jefferson, an expert in infectious and respiratory diseases, has been working hard in 2009-2011 on investigating Swine Flu and related vaccines, drugs. Based in Rome, he is a senior associate tutor and honorary research fellow of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University... Read More →

Tuesday September 8, 2020 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
TBA

Public health, Presentation

16:15 CEST

Medical investigations for a wide public

Case-study Leicester. Coronavirus tests. Tips to bring together evidence and journalism.

Moderators

Ruben Brugnera

Freelance investigative journalist

Serena Tinari

Founder, Re-Check

Speakers

Deborah Cohen

Reporter, BBC

Deborah Cohen is an award-winning investigative medical reporter that also owns a university degree in medicine. She was editor investigations for the British Medical Journal for seven years and is now with BBC Newsnight. In the last months, she has been intensively reporting about... Read More →

Tuesday September 8, 2020 16:15 - 17:15 CEST
TBA

Public health, Presentation

17:15 CEST

Wrap up

Re-cap new investigative ideas ex today's session. Slides and hand-out will follow.

Moderators

Ruben Brugnera

Freelance investigative journalist

Speakers

Serena Tinari

Founder, Re-Check

Tuesday September 8, 2020 17:15 - 17:30 CEST
TBA

Public health, Presentation

14:00 CEST

Crash Course Evidence Based Medicine for Journos / 2

Part Two: Scientific studies, protocols, routines
Bringing together Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and investigative journalism thinking and methods can dramatically improve the quality of your reporting.
In this Part Two of Dataharvest Digital “crash course”, we’ll focus on why a scientific study is not ‘just a study’ and how a journalist can assess its value.
We’ll review together the basics on what to make out of protocols, routines and guidelines in healthcare. With concrete examples out of these COVID-19 months, and tips to avoid common pitfalls in medical investigative reporting.

Moderators

Ruben Brugnera

Freelance investigative journalist

Speakers

Serena Tinari

Founder, Re-Check

Wednesday September 9, 2020 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
TBA

Public health, Presentation

15:00 CEST

Hands-on: Evidence Based Medicine applied to COVID19: Pitfalls and Opportunities in reporting

Pitfalls and Opportunities in COVID19 reporting

Moderators

Ruben Brugnera

Freelance investigative journalist

Serena Tinari

Founder, Re-Check

Speakers

Martin Kulldorff

Martin Kulldorff is a respected biostatistician in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School. He has developed new statistical methods for post-market drug and vaccine safety surveillance... Read More →

Wednesday September 9, 2020 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
TBA

Public health, Presentation

16:15 CEST

Medical investigative journalism: It’s not just about the money trail

The session will address how medical investigative journalism differs from medical reporting. Questions will be welcome throughout the talk, so bring your concerns, confusion, and triumphs for an airing. We’ll review some basic rules of medical science and why those rules still apply during a pandemic – despite the claims of officials and doctors who are hitting panic buttons and saying the rules are hindering progress in a time of need. We’ll look at instances of excellent and poor reportage to see how good journalists challenge hype and how they sometimes fail. And most important, you will get a number of superb resources available to journalists around the world, including an international list of industry independent experts and organizations that aren’t beholden to Big Pharma, along with guides for healthcare journalism reporting.

Moderators

Ruben Brugnera

Freelance investigative journalist

Serena Tinari

Founder, Re-Check

Speakers

Jeanne Lenzer

independent investigative journalist

Latest project: Worked with ICIJ's Implant Files and wrote my first book, The Danger Within Us. Next: A story I can't figure out how to tell about "bad hombres" and the other side of the drug war. It's been sitting with me too long and it's haunting me. Written for NYT, WashPo, Atlantic... Read More →

Wednesday September 9, 2020 16:15 - 17:15 CEST
TBA

Public health, Presentation

17:15 CEST

Wrap up

Re-cap new investigative ideas ex today's session. Slides and hand-out will follow.

Moderators

Ruben Brugnera

Freelance investigative journalist

Speakers

Serena Tinari

Founder, Re-Check

Wednesday September 9, 2020 17:15 - 17:30 CEST
TBA

Public health, Presentation

14:00 CEST

Crash Course Evidence Based Medicine for Journos / 3

Part Three: Drugs and vaccines approval and monitoring, pandemic drugs
Bringing together Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and investigative journalism thinking and methods can dramatically improve the quality of your reporting.
In this Part Three of Dataharvest Digital “crash course”, we’ll focus on all you need to know about drugs and vaccines approval and monitoring and especially review the best available evidence on the efficacy and safety of the pharmaceutical products that are supposed to help COVID-19 patients. And what about the pre-buy deals for pandemic vaccines?

Moderators

Ruben Brugnera

Freelance investigative journalist

Speakers

Serena Tinari

Founder, Re-Check

Thursday September 10, 2020 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
TBA

Public health, Presentation

15:00 CEST

Hands-on evidence based medicine applied to COVID19: Vaccines Development and Safety

The whole planet is waiting for a pandemic vaccine. Many governments signed pre-buy deals with pharmaceutical companies, many of whose are frantically working to win the race for the first Sars-Cov-2 jab. Nevertheless, it’s not a secret for all experts that it is hard for a safe and effective vaccine to be developed in such a short time. Also, the industry was so far unsuccessful when it tried to come to a vaccine for other Coronas. So, how can an investigative journalist work on this issue of such a big public interest?
Rebecca Chandler will tell us what we do know and what we don’t when a vaccine is approved by the regulatory authorities. She will give us an overview of how we learn more after approval. With her help, we’ll put together the areas of interest and worry for muckrakers to dig deeper on, in the context of Covid19 vaccines.

Moderators

Ruben Brugnera

Freelance investigative journalist

Serena Tinari

Founder, Re-Check

Speakers

Rebecca Chandler

An infectious diseases physician turned vaccine safety scientist, Rebecca Chandler worked for a number of years at the Medical Products Agency in Sweden as a clinical safety assessor. She reviewed marketing applications, periodic safety reports, risk management plans for a number... Read More →

Thursday September 10, 2020 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
TBA

Public health, Presentation

16:15 CEST

Tenders and procurements

The TED SIMAP platform aggregates information about European public procurement and a specific database contains all COVID-19 related tenders: https://simap.ted.europa.eu/web/simap/covid-related-tenders.
In this panel Maria Manuela Cruz, head of unit at the Publications Office of the European Union Directorate C – Access to and reuse of public information, will tell us how the COVID-19 related tenders’ database has been conceived and how an investigative journalist can make the best out of it.
Civio.es investigative journalist Eva Belmonte has a long experience on digging deeper on tenders and procurement in the health sector. She’ll share with us her tips on how to research this key aspect of healthcare, and what mistakes we should be avoiding.

Moderators

Ruben Brugnera

Freelance investigative journalist

Serena Tinari

Founder, Re-Check

Speakers

Eva Belmonte

Director, Civio

Eva Belmonte (Spain, 1982) is a journalist specialised in public data treatment and analysis. She gained journalistic experience writing and editing for major Spanish media organisations like El Mundo, where she worked from 2005 to 2012. She is currently Director at Fundación Civio... Read More →

Maria Manuela Cruz

TED and EU Public Procurement, Publications Office of the European Union

Graduated in Law in Portugal. Works for the European Commission since 1992. Since 2015, responsible for the TED website at the Publications Office of the EU in Luxembourg.

Thursday September 10, 2020 16:15 - 17:15 CEST
TBA

Public health, Presentation

17:15 CEST

Bring your own beer

Round-table, open questions, brainstorming on suggested investigations.

Moderators

Ruben Brugnera

Freelance investigative journalist

Speakers

Serena Tinari

Founder, Re-Check

Thursday September 10, 2020 17:15 - 18:30 CEST
TBA

Public health, Thursday Bar

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