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Volume 33, Issue 4 - Medical Writing Around the World in 2024

December 2024

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Editorial

Editorial

From the Editor

President's Message

President's message

EMWA News

EMWA News

58th EMWA Conference: Online and in real life

Feature Articles

Global and multidisciplinary perspectives on collaboration with medical writers

“Follow the Sun” writing: A hybrid operating model to optimize collaboration and efficiency

An interview with Julia Cooper: Insights and experiences from leading a global medical writing team

Training and development opportunities for medical writers from different regions across the world

The worldwide landscape of freelance medical writing: Exploring challenges and opportunities

Global perspectives on EDIB: Advancing equity, diversity, inclusion, and Belonging in medical communications

Inclusive language in medical texts and medical translation in French

Breaking barriers: Empowering researchers from low- and middle-income countries in global health communication

From Portugal to the world: Leveraging remote medical writing for global impact

A case study from Pakistan: Improving medical publications in non-English speaking countries

Transparency through the lens of data protection and privacy: A clinical research organisation medical writing perspective

News from the EMA

News from the EMA

Special Section

Medical Writing in Japanese: Writing medical documents in English while thinking in Japanese

Medical Writing in Chinese: Language-specific considerations for Chinese regulatory medical writers

Medical Writing in Russian: From Russian to English and back again

Medical Writing in Italian: Seeing the world through a different lens

Medical Writing in Spanish: Medical Writing

Medical Writing in Portuguese: English to Portuguese translation: Know your audience!

Medical Writing in French: Du français à l’anglais: Understanding your source

Medical Writing in German: Navigating linguistic complexities

Regular Sections

Medical Devices

Biotechnology

Medical Communications and Writing for Patients

Regulatory Matters

Pharmacovigilance

Publications

The Crofter: Sustainable Communications

Search

Links

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Scope

Medical Writing is a quarterly publication that aims to educate and inform medical writers in Europe and beyond. Each issue focuses on a specific theme, and all issues include feature articles and regular columns on topics relevant to the practice of medical writing. We welcome articles providing practical advice to medical writers; guidelines and reviews/summaries/updates of guidelines published elsewhere; original research; opinion pieces; interviews; and review articles.

Medical Writing is listed in the following indexes:

Editoral Board

Editor-in-Chief

Raquel Billiones

Co-Editors

Evguenia Alechine

Jonathan Pitt

Managing Editor

Victoria White

Deputy Managing Editor

Alicia Brooks Waltman

Associate Editors

Anuradha Alahari

Jennifer Bell

Nicole Bezuidenhout

Claire Chang

Barbara Grossman

Sarah Milner

John Plant

Sampoorna Rappaz

Amy Whereat

Section Editors

Daniela Kamir

AI/Automation

Jennifer Bell

Biotechnology

Nicole Bezuidenhout 

Digital Communication

Somsuvro Basu

EMWA News 

Adriana Rocha

Freelancing

Ana Sofia Correia 

Gained in Translation

Ivana Turek

Getting Your Foot in the Door

Wendy Kingdom / Amy Whereat

Good Writing Practice

Pablo Izquierdo / Alison McIntosh 

In the Bookstores

Maria Kołtowska-Häggström

Lingua Franca and Beyond

Maddy Dyer

Publications

Lisa Chamberlain-James

Medical Communications/Writing for Patients

Payal Bhatia

Medical Devices

Evguenia Alechine

My First Medical Writing

Anuradha Alahari

News from the EMA

Tiziana von Bruchhausen

Pharmacovigilance

Clare ChangZuo Yen Lee 

Regulatory Matters

Sam Hamilton

Regulatory Public Disclosure

Louisa Ludwig-Begall / Sarah Kabani

The Crofter: Sustainable Communications

Jeff Blair / Luiza Ventura

Veterinary Writing

Editors Emeritus

Elise Langdon-Neuner

Phil Leventhal

Layout Designer

Chris Monk