Lecture & Award 2010

This year’s event will be held at Kensington Town Hall, London W8 on 16th November. The speaker will be Oliver Gillie BSc PhD, scientist, writer, Trustee and Vice Chair of the Caroline Walker Trust, whose lecture is entitled:
‘Sunlight robbery: Vitamin D and public health - Is current UK public health policy on vitamin D fit for purpose?’

Oliver was a medical correspondent of The Sunday Times and former health editor of The Independent and has won 17 awards for his scientific and medical writing in national newspapers. Most recently he was elected health champion of the year by the Medical Journalists’ Association for his campaign to inform the public and professionals about vitamin D insufficiency disease.

His work over the last seven years has been to pass on information about vitamin D insufficiency to scientists, doctors, and journalists and to lobby government and organisations such as Cancer Research UK for a rational evidence-based public health policy on sunlight and vitamin D.

Oliver Gillie has written 13 books on science, health and lifestyle and made two television documentaries. While medical editor of The Independent he started the Health Page, which was an immediate success and was copied by all the other national quality dailies. He is a graduate of Edinburgh University and a former Fulbright scholar at Stanford University.

A recent BBC Radio 4 broadcast on 20th April 2010 in the series Case Notes, presented by Dr Mark Porter, spotlighted Vitamin D deficiency. You can hear this programme in which Oliver Gillie took part by listening to the clip above.