Guild of Health Writers’ Committee

Lyndon Gee is an established consumer and technical writer, producing comprehensive market reports and evaluating scientific research studies for leading charities, magazines, and corporate clients.

As a food writer, he creates healthy recipes and menus for magazines, corporate clients, and health charities, and with his expert team delivers a publication-ready package with nutritional analysis, styling, images, videos, or camera-ready artwork. An award-winning food, health and leisure futurist, Lyndon predicts market trends for clients from major multinationals to niche artisan brands.

Also a renowned international consultant and commentator specialising in food, health, and hospitality, Lyndon advises UK Parliament on healthy and sustainable food, and is a seasoned public speaker with extensive media experience across all platforms.

www.lyndongee.com

Ursula Arens has a degree in dietetics, and works as a freelance writer on nutrition and dietetics. She is a monthly columnist for Network Health Digest magazine (read by 7000+ dietitians).

Her professional interests are on food fortification and supplementation, and on environmental aspects of dietary choices.

Editor, Catchline News, news and features agency, journalist, writer and media consultant.

Becky is a medical journalist of 20 years standing. She has written for both medical and consumer press, including Medscape.com, Re:solve Global Health, specialist magazines eg Acuity for the College of Optometrists, The Lancet, The Times and the Mail on Sunday. She has also worked in radio and TV.

Outside her journalistic work, Becky is completing her PhD at University College London (UCL) looking at the value of digital storytelling in improving public engagement with AMR – creating and exploring whether digital storytelling (DST, 3-5 minute ‘mini-films’) offers a more nuanced and novel means of making complex scientific subject matter more relatable and meaningful to the lay public.

She has been a committee member of the Guild of Health Writers for 2 years.

Corinne Swainger is a seasoned, freelance medical copywriter, healthcare editor and creative content consultant. She has provided strategic support for over 200 clients in medical communications to develop, launch and promote pharmaceutical, commercial healthcare and corporate campaigns.
She has worked with various healthcare providers, charities and KOLs to develop targeted, multi-media marketing concepts and copy for healthcare advertising, PR and medical education, across UK, European and global accounts.
As an independent writer for 17 years, Corinne is a proactive member of the UK medical communications (MedComms) community. She has acted as a speaker, panellist and mentor at various national and international MedComms industry events. She has also organised various Special Events for the Guild of Health Writers in the past.

Corinne is also a former trustee for the Tuberous Sclerosis Association UK, where she now serves as a lay member of RESCOM ‒  the TSA’s committee that oversees investment in research for both treatment and a cure for TSC.
She runs her own consultancy (MediQuill Ltd), where she has developed MedComms content covering over 70 healthcare therapy areas. These accounts include prescription medications, digital health, consumer health products, medical devices, specialist clinics, continuing medical education, disease awareness campaigns and patient support programs.

Corinne can be contacted at: corinne@mediquill.com
Visit her website at: https://mediquill.com/

I am a healthcare writer, business consultant and author of the book-Medicated malnourishment. A pharmacist, with master’s degrees in pharmaceutical analysis, nutritional medicine, clinical oncology and currently completing a Professional Doctorate examining the effects of medications on micronutrient status. Highly commended in the 2019 UK Antibiotic Guardianship awards sponsored by NHS England.

I am an expert member of NHS clinical trials ethics committee and Royal College of Medicine. I contribute to consumer and health publications and my natural product research was used to promote the scientific conference of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. I’m also a guest lecturer at University of Surrey in Nutritional Medicine. Recent presentations at scientific symposia in Canada, US, Hong Kong, Holland, Ireland, Denmark, Greece, Vitafoods; FIE and HIE.

I’m a freelance health and medical journalist writing for UK national media and beyond.

I am a regular contributor to the Daily Mail’s Good Health section, as well as consumer magazines and specialist medical titles. These include SAGA, Foresight Global Health Magazine, Community Practitioner and Acuity.

Past jobs include being news editor of GP and features editor at Pregnancy and Birth magazine and Top Sante magazine , plus contributing editor for Yours magazine and Healthy Food Guide magazine.

I’m also the author of three health books, including ‘What’s Up With Your Gut? ( Hammersmith Books) which I co-wrote with Professor Julian Walters, and am a past chair of the Guild of Health Writers ( 2011 to 2013) and current committee member.

I also offer media strategy advice on a consultancy basis to PR companies and charities, as well as a press release and case study writing service.

Here’s some links to my web site www.jowaters.org and my portfolio site https://jowaters.contentl