Mandy Payne

Studied Medicine at Edinburgh University, qualified in Marketing at Norwich. Started as a PR manager in the slimming and nutrition industry, switched to journalism, writing freelance health features for newspapers and magazines including weekly features for Daily Mail's Femail and a weekly column in the Sunday Times Style supplement, with occasionals for Top Sante, Pregnancy, She, Esquire. Have edited and produced the quarterly newsletter of the UK charity HealthSense, which promotes evidence-based medicine, since 1995. Actively campaigning against unethical clinical trials and promoting clinical research transparency. Now based in Pembrokeshire, Wales, also collaborating with Brussels-based Words & Science on training in bioethics. Associate member of Committee for Publication Ethics (COPE); member of European Association of Science Editors (EASE).