We need to talk about health misinformation! In the age of AI, it’s way more complex than you think. And it’s dangerous.

My guest in this episode is no stranger to the power of social media as a platform for taking health communication beyond the clinic, to reach patients often where and when they are at their most vulnerable.

But my conversation with Dr Eleonora Teplinsky also shines a light on the dangers of trusting everything you see on social media, and how to protect yourself.

Speaking with Katie King about manufacturing medicines in space was truly mind-stretching for me. Katie is a brilliant scientist with incredible ideas, and her passion for using space technology to benefit humans is contagious.

In this episode we talk about how studying nanomedicine, and her experience with NASA, inspired her to attempt what’s never been done before: mass manufacturing medicines in space, so that in the future, cancer patients can be treated at home.

And we talk about her work in inspiring the next generation of scientists, too, and the role that social media plays in that.

My conversation with Prof. Partha Kar was a journey into how to use social media to drive access to better healthcare.

We talk about health equity; we talk about data, and the vital role that communication plays in effective health leadership.

And Prof. Kar talks about how important social media is for that. In fact, he says that without social media, there would not have been what he calls the explosion in access to better technology for people with type 1 diabetes in the UK.

So we talk about some really practical ways in which social media has been used to help shape policy, to drive access to technology, and better patient care.

And you don’t want to miss his great advice for any healthcare professional who wants to build their network and use social media effectively for better health.