Speeches
We are often invited to give public speeches and to join conferences as speakers, in Switzerland and in other countries. The topics are those that lay at the core of Re-Check’s mission: how to investigate health and medicine; how to perform a critical assessment of clinical studies and regulatory documents; where to find the best available evidence on drugs, vaccines and other medical interventions; how to find and put into context undisclosed conflicts of interest, and what to make out of the declared ones; ghost management and the craft of mapping the issues and affairs of public health and medicine.
28 June 2023 We participated to the 6th International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP6). The recording of our presentation “Ghost management at work. How to investigate and map health affairs” is available, along with the other panels, here.
21-25 November 2022 Re-Check participated with a panel to the international congress “POLI-COVID-22 Salute, Scienza e Società alla prova della pandemia”, which took place in Turin (Italy). Among the international speakers: John Ioannidis, Tom Jefferson, Peter Doshi, Sunetra Gupta. Available online in open access: program and recordings.
October 2022 Serena Tinari participated to the conference “Pandemia & (dis)Informazione” (Pandemic & (dis)information), that took place in Trieste (IT) and was organised by the Comitato di Mutuo Appoggio Lavoratori Radio-TV. Recording available here (in Italian).
22 June 2022 We opened with a key note speech the training module for Italian journalists “Le mie evidenze, le tue evidenze e le evidenze”, organised by INMP / NIHP with the patronage of the Italian National Journalism Board. Recordings are available here.
7 May 2022 Serena Tinari was the key note speaker at the Dies Academicus of USI university in Lugano. Her speech: “Journalism, academia and society. In crisis mode”.
27-29 April 2022 We participated to the symposium “Analyzing Ghost-management: Dynamics of Corporate Power in a Risk Society”. The recording of our presentation “Mapping Ghost-Management at Work in the Biopharmaceutical Sector, Public Health, and the Surveillance-Industrial Complex” is available, along with the other panels, here.
2-4 November 2021 Catherine Riva and Serena Tinari organised and spoke at two panels about tips and tools for Investigating health and medicine for the 2021 Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC).
15 October 2021 At Data-SKUP conference in Oslo (N), Serena Tinari was the key note speaker for the Pandemic Masterclass.
1 December 2020 Catherine Riva joined the debate “Les medias généralistes à l’ère du COVID-19. Entre devoir d’information et complaisance: enjeux, contraintes et enseignements à tirer” (Mainstream media in the era of COVID-19. Between duty to inform and complacency: challenges, constraints, and lessons to be learned). With Etienne Kocher (journalist, Swiss public TV RTS). Hosted by AESSP, ESSOPOL Section, and ASSOPOL Alumni. University of Lausanne, Lausanne (CH). Watch.
26 November 2020 Serena Tinari keynote on the pitfalls of pandemic journalism opened the Dutch-Flemish Association for Investigative Journalism (VVOJ) online conference.
8-11 October 2020 Panel “COVID-19: narrazione, ricerca e inchiesta sui temi della medicina e della salute pubblica (COVID-19: narrative, research and investigation on the topic of medicine and public health)” by Serena Tinari and Francesca Sironi. DIG investigative film festival, Modena (I).
29 September 2020 Presentation by Catherine Riva at CINQ À SEPT “Re-Check: les coulisses des affaires de santé comme vous ne les avez jamais vues” (Re-Check: Snoop in the backstage of public health affairs and issues) organized by the nurses’ accredited Swiss training center Institut et Haute Ecole de la Santé La Source. Lausanne (CH).
8-10 September 2020 Serena Tinari organised and hosted the Health Track at DataHarvest Digital, the European Investigative Journalism Conference held for once online: Reporting on public health in the corona-crisis.
16 November 2019 Catherine Riva joined the conference “Medical scandals: the role of journalists and whistleblowers” at the Health Trade Fair organized by Planète Santé. Panel discussion with Christophe Ungar (journalist, Swiss public TV RTS) and Prof. Olivier Lamy (CHUV), moderated by Isabelle Moncada (journalist RTS). CERM Martigny (CH).
7-9 October 2019 Catherine Riva joined the 4Es Forum “Improving the detection, analysis and reporting of harms in medicines”, a three-day workshop organised and sponsored by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM Oxford) and by Uppsala Monitoring Centre, the WHO’s Programme for International Drug Monitoring. At the session “Potential solutions to the problems of pre-marketing approvals”, Catherine spoke about Re-Check findings on ghost management and capture at work during the HPV vaccine approval and about Re-Check’s on-going research project on ghost management (GhoMan – Chasing the Ghosts). Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice (I).
25-29 September 2019 At the Global Investigative Journalism Conference 2019 (GIJC19) two Re-Check presentations by Serena Tinari: an half-day workshop organized by CFI, the French government media development agency, and GIJN’s Investigating Health and Medicine – Tips & Techniques (1). At GIJC19 was launched #MédiaLabInvestigation, a new CFI project to support the specialization of investigative journalists in the field of health and the production of quality investigations. Re-Check is excited to be involved in the project to provide consultancy, training and mentorship in collaboration with Tunisian investigative journalist Hanene Zbiss Zbiss. At GIJC19 Serena contributed also to the “Documentaries Track” with the panels How to Finance Your Investigative Documentary, Pitching Your Documentary Idea and the coaching session Meet the Mentor. Hamburg (D).
4 July 2019 Keynote by Serena Tinari “Evidence-Based Medicine and muckraking: investigating health and medicine”. Congrès de l’immersion communautaire, Faculty of Medicine, Lausanne University, Lausanne (CH).
16-19 May 2019 European Investigative Journalism Conference Dataharvest. Panels by Serena Tinari:“Be a better health and medicine reporter” and “Safety when crossing borders”; Serena also moderated the debates “How to apply for work grants – meet the right funder” and “Journalism with a cause – about journalism versus advocacy”. Mechelen (B).
20 May 2019 Presentation by Catherine Riva “HPV vaccines – EBM and investigations”. On invitation by the research team for evaluation and modeling of therapeutics effects (Equipe Evaluation et modélisation des effets thérapeutiques), Prof. Rémy Boussageon, Prof. Michel Cucherat and Prof François Gueyffier. Clinical Pharmacology department – UMR 5558, Faculty of Medicine Laennec, University of Lyon 1, Lyon (F).
6 May 2019 Presentation by Catherine Riva “Investigating and mapping ghost management at work: the case of HPV vaccines”. Summer Institute 2019 “Feminist Activism and the Health Industries”, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montreal (CND).
29 March 2019 Panel by Serena Tinari “Ta en grundig helsesjekk! (Take a thorough health check!)”. Yearly investigative journalism conference of SKUP (Association for critical and investigative press). Oslo (N).
12 March 2019 Lecture by Catherine Riva “Communiqué de presse: susciter l’intérêt des médias – et endormir leur attention?” (Press releases. Raise media interest, and let their awareness fade?), for the Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS Promotion de la santé et santé communautaire organised by the Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva (CH).
8 January 2019 Presentation by Catherine Riva “Overdiagnosis and Too Much Medicine. Take-home messages from the #PODC2018 conference”. Service of Clinical Pharmacology, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Lausanne (CH).
20-22 August 2018 The poster Mapping Ghost Management in Medical Research and Public Health by Catherine Riva and Serena Tinari was presented at the Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference #PODC2018, Copenhagen (DK).
5 June 2018 Lecture by Catherine Riva “Communiqué de presse: susciter l’intérêt des médias – et endormir leur attention?” (Press releases. Raise media interest, and let their awareness fade?), for the Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS Promotion de la santé et santé communautaire organised by the Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva (CH).
24-27 May 2018 European Investigative Journalism Conference Dataharvest. Panels “Be a Better Health and Medicine Reporter” and “Mining medicines procurement: Let’s talk about pharma & public tenders” by Catherine Riva and Serena Tinari. Moderation by Serena Tinari of the debate “Journalism with a cause and journalism funded by interest organisations: Business model or grey-zone?” and the workshop “Travel Opsec for journalists”. Mechelen (B).
16-19 November 2017 Panels by Serena Tinari “Investigating Health – global issues” and “Encryption”. Global Investigative Journalism Conference GIJC, Johannesburg (ZAF).
28 September 2017 Presentation by Catherine Riva “Preventing overdiagnosis: take-home messages from the #PODC2017 conference”. Service of Clinical Pharmacology, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Lausanne (CH).
17-19 August 2017 Presentation by Catherine Riva “Mammography screening, overdiagnosis and conflicts of interest. The textbook case of the first screening programs in Switzerland”. Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference #PODC2017, Québec (CND).
2-3 June 2017 “Computer-assisted and crossborder investigative journalism” training module led by Serena Tinari. Corso di giornalismo della Svizzera italiana, Lugano (CH).
22 May 2017 Flash School Day, a training session by Re-Check in collaboration with Sept.info and Impressum. University of Fribourg, Fribourg (CH).
9 May 2017 Presentation by Catherine Riva “Investigating health and medicine” for the series “A l’impossible, nul n’est tenu. Récits de rêves, d’audace et d’exploits” organized by Les 4 Vents, a students body of the University of Fribourg, Fribourg (CH).
25 April 2017 Lecture by Catherine Riva “Communiqué de presse: susciter l’intérêt des médias – et endormir leur attention?” (Press releases. Raise media interest, and let their awareness fade?), for the Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS Promotion de la santé et santé communautaire organized by the Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva (CH).
