The Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) is delighted to support the Medical Journalists’ Association (MJA) Awards 2025.
DAUK is sponsoring the Feature of the Year (specialist audience) category.
The three features on the shortlist are:
- Simar Bajaj – Nature: The World Was on Track To End the Aids Epidemic. Then Came Trump
- Jessica Hamzelou – MIT Technology Review: A strange kind of limbo
- Margaret McCartney, Deborah Cohen – BMJ: Galleri promises to detect multiple cancers—but new evidence casts doubt on this much hyped blood test
The Mental Health Story of the Year category includes a nomination for Adele Waters, of the BMJ, for telling the powerful story of DAUK’s GP co-lead Dr Sarah Jacques.
MJA Awards
The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony, which takes place in central London on Wednesday.
Dr Ellen Welch, DAUK co-chair, said: “We’re really delighted to be supporting the MJA Awards again this year.
“Good medical journalism makes such a difference. It helps the public understand complex issues, shines a light on the challenges we face in medicine, and tells the human stories.
“We value our close relationship with the MJA, and we’re pleased to play a part in recognising and supporting journalists doing such important work.”
DAUK and the MJA
DAUK has strong links with the MJA. We sponsored Feature of the Year (Specialist Audience) category at last year’s awards.
The award was won by Carolyn Wickware, executive editor, The Pharmaceutical Journal, for her work published in The Pharmaceutical Journal, Uncompassionate use: the inconsistent offering of life-saving unlicensed medicines.
DAUK has also supported the MJA’s annual symposium.
Emma Wilkinson, the association’s vice-chair, took part in a discussion on medics and the media at our recent conference. You can watch the discussion again on our YouTube.
And plans are in the pipeline for the MJA to host a webinar to give doctors a greater understanding of how to work with journalists.
DAUK committee members are all volunteers and speak to the media about issues facing frontline doctors in their own time. Please support our work by joining DAUK or donating to our GoFundMe.
Left to right: Dr Ellen Welch, DAUK co-chair, Carolyn Wickware, executive editor of The Pharmaceutical Journal, and Dr Sian Williams, awards host. (Credit: Vicki Sharp Photography)
