Human biology is a matter of life or death: Effective science communication for <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 research

Ocobock, Cara; Lynn, Christopher D.

doi:10.1002/ajhb.23472

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“…The importance of communicating science to a general audience has been driven home by the COVID-19 pandemic, when it is absolutely critical that the public understands and trusts science, and when the perils of its failing to do so have become all too clear [1][2][3][4]. Long before the pandemic, however, the need for improved science communication to the lay public and policy makers had been recognized [5][6][7] and incorporated into key competencies for biomedical [8], translational, and clinical researchers [9,10].…”

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Creating an amateur press corps of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to cover breaking science and improve lay-writing skills

McGhee

Loucks

Champlin

et al. 2021

J. Clin. Trans. Sci.

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The Science Writing Initiative for Trainees is a science communications internship program for biomedical graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the Medical University of South Carolina. Interns serve as an amateur press corps, writing news stories and press releases about recent high-impact research articles. Since 2016, 25 interns have written more than 100 EurekAlert! press releases that have received more than a half million views. Interns learn to explain science across the translational spectrum and to convey findings in plain language to a lay audience, serving as ambassadors for science.

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