We are pleased to announce an exclusive partnership with the Medical Journalist’s Association (MJA) to deliver news briefings to its network of 450 health, medical and science journalists.

The partnership means we will work with the MJA to organise media briefings from some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical, healthcare and research organisations. These will provide the MJA’s members with timely insights and exclusive access to important stories to share with their audiences.

The MJA and its members will retain full editorial independence and will not be constrained on questions they can pose to media briefing panels.

In addition, the partnership will deliver an annual lecture series. This creates a major new platform for health and life-science leaders to address the UK sector’s biggest media influencers.

The partnership will be spearheaded by our team of former journalists and led by our Director of Health Communications, Jaber Mohamed. The partnership will be governed by a formal code of conduct to ensure transparency, accuracy and editorial integrity.

Jaber Mohamed, MHP Director of Health Communications, said: “This partnership will help organisations working on the biggest health challenges and advancing the frontiers of life science connect directly with health and science journalists. At a time when misinformation is proliferating, the work will help the public, health professionals and policy makers receive accurate and essential information.”

Shaun Lintern, Health Editor of The Sunday Times and Chair of the Medical Journalists’ Association, commented: “Journalists are increasingly time poor, so connecting them directly with experts is a real benefit. This partnership will give MJA members special access to news briefings from industry experts, where they can ask questions and get a deeper understanding of stories straight from the source. This collaboration also means we can expand our events, including a new annual lecture to build on the success of our Wes Streeting event held earlier this year.”

To find out more about our Health team, read more here. To find out more about the MJA, read more here.