Bloomberg School
As an expert source for the Netflix docuseries Afflicted, senior scholar Amesh Adalja, MD, sat for a lengthy interview in 2017 with the filmmakers. He was one of several doctors, researchers and patients interviewed for the project, which followed a group of people suffering from obscure or undiagnosed chronic illnesses.
In the series, which debuted in August, Adalja鈥檚 90-minute interview鈥攊n which he answered complex questions about the research and science associated with the patients鈥 conditions鈥攚as edited to less than 30 seconds.
Adalja told it was unfortunate that the series didn鈥檛 strike more of a balance between hard science and sensational storytelling. 鈥淪omething that鈥檚 more thoughtful doesn鈥檛 find the same types of audience numbers,鈥 he said.
An adjunct professor, Adalja will join other Bloomberg School faculty and award-winning journalists from NPR and Science magazine at the School on December 5 for the symposium 鈥.鈥
The event, the sixth such collaboration between the School and the , will explore the challenges of communicating and translating complex ideas, methodologies and findings into accurate and engaging news stories.
The symposium will provide a forum for dialogue between public health professionals and journalists about the need for quality science reporting in a mediascape littered with misinformation.
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