Rachel David

Video case study for Mums with a Message, a disease awareness campaign to tackle vaccine hesitancy.

Awareness campaign to promote vaccination among mums

Social networks for health are a valuable source of support for patients, but where did they fit in the changing healthcare landscape of lockdown?

Moving to a virtual existence may have been a bit of a challenge (or, at the very least, an adaptation of sorts). But the potential impact of reaching wider audiences is huge...

Science is built on a foundation of collaboration. Those of us with an academic background will know that without that researcher down the corridor who has the antibody we need...

Every science communication graduate will remember the discussion of the transition from Public Understanding of Science (terribly named PUS) to Public Engagement with Science and Technology (PEST, just as bad)...

At the start of lockdown 1.0, I made a decision. I was going to be one of those annoying people who makes the most of the extra time gained from working from home and get back into running.

Eat less, do more exercise — a simple formula for maintaining a healthy weight. Or is it? In the mid-2000s, pioneering work by Jeff Gordon’s laboratory showed that there is more to obesity than that; our bacterial ‘partners’ have a thing or two to say about our fat storage and weight gain.

Case study video for internal training we carried out for Pfizer Global's Digital Patient Solutions team using a hackathon methodology.

Case study video for the My Surgical Journey project for Grunenthal Global.

Case study video for the award-winning Caphosol campaign for EUSA Pharma.

Chris Kelly's tragicomedy Other People seemingly gives away the ending right in the outset (a dark room, a family crying “she's gone, she's gone”). But that is not really the point of the film anyway. Based on Kelly's personal experiences, it is instead focused on how a cancer diagnosis and all its inherent complications affect those closest to the patient, rather than the patient herself.

Have you heard of Linda? She’s 31 years old, single, outspoken, and as a student participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations. She is also fictional. Kahneman and Tversky famously used her to illustrate the power of stereotypes.

Meet Irene.
Like millions of others worldwide (and an estimated 115,000 in the UK), Irene suffers from Crohn’s disease, an autoimmune disorder that causes inflammation in the gut and has had a dramatic impact on her daily life, especially during periods of flare-ups.