Speakers

Distinguished engineer and co-creator of Google Scholar, Google

Reporter, The Washington Post

Associate professor of medicine and director, Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research, UC San Francisco

Science journalist, BuzzFeed News

Professor, family health care nursing, School of Nursing, UC San Francisco

Editor in chief, Afriscitech.com

Science journalist and researcher, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)

Communications manager, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP), New Delhi, India

Senior editor, The Atlantic

Team leader, Pale Red Dot; Astronomer, Queen Mary University of London

Paleontologist, Fundación Azara

Lead science writer, FiveThirtyEight

Director, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Director, Science, Heising-Simons Foundation


Correspondent and editor, Nature

Independent writer and trainer

Professor, earth and planetary science, and environmental science, policy and management; UC Berkeley

Science and health editor, La Nación, Buenos Aires

Communications director, Science Philanthropy Alliance

Associate professor, molecular and cell biology, UC Berkeley

Science journalist, détecteur de rumeurs, Agence Science-Presse

Associate professor, Tel Aviv University

Editor in Chief, bioGraphic

Associate editor, Discover

Freelance journalist

Nepal editor, The Third Pole and Earth Journalism Network

Distinguished Scientist, Biological Systems & Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Science journalist, SciBraai

A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen distinguished professor, UC San Francisco; President and CEO, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

Director, Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT

Correspondent, Science; visiting scholar, Berkeley Institute for Data Science

Independent journalist and author

Environmental microbiologist and biogeochemist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Aerospace and science editor, GeekWire

Reporter, correctiv.org

Senior writer, global health, STAT

G.R. & W.M. Goertz chair and professor of environmental science, UC Berkeley

Professor of family and community medicine; director of the Center on Social Disparities in Health, UCSF

Journalist, BBC News

Editor in chief, ¿Como ves? Magazine

Assistant professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego

Director, Fundación Ealy Ortiz A.C.

Director, Institute of Computational Health Sciences, and professor of pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco

Scientific director, DIII-D National Fusion Facility

Knight chair in visual journalism, University of Miami

Director, El Poder del Consumidor

Editor in chief, Chemical and Engineering News

Director, Animal Care and Use Program; senior veterinarian, Laboratory Animal Resource Center, UC San Francisco

Robert H. Reynolds Distinguished Chair in Global Leadership, University of Colorado, Denver

Freelance journalist

Health and science editor, The Associated Press

Science reporter, editor at NPR

Editor, The Intellectual

Director and co-founder, CGNet Swara Foundation

Graduate student, psychology, UC Berkeley

Journalist and PR specialist; communications officer, World Animal Protection

Professor, earth and planetary science, UC Berkeley; senior scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Health care reporter – California, POLITICO

Vice president, Business Development, 23andMe

Senior staff writer, Science

Science communicator, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Managing editor, Health-e News Service

Freelance science writer

Journalist with Les Décodeurs, Le Monde

Research scientist, Institute for Research in Fundamental Science (Tehran)

Professor of medicine and dermatology, UC San Francisco

Independent science writer

Managing director, Journalismfund.eu

Professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF, and co-president of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

Chief Executive Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Thomas and Stacey Siebel distinguished chair in stem cell research, UC Berkeley

Director, Event Horizon Telescope, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Professor, molecular and cell biology and chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

Contributing writer, National Geographic

Medical anthropologist

Professor of integrative biology, UC Berkeley

Director, Centre for Health Journalism, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Princess of Jordan; president, Royal Scientific Society of Jordan

News network and online manager, Earth Touch News

Editor, Annual Reviews Magazine

Contributing editor, The Guardian; Knight Science Journalism Fellow, 2017-2018

European news editor, Science Magazine

Professor, departments of surgery and radiology, UC San Francisco

Professor of journalism, New York University

Executive director, Internews' Earth Journalism Network

Founder and editor, InfoAmazonia

Director of communications for research and education, UC San Francisco

Science editor, Popular Science

Associate professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, UC San Francisco

Press officer, American Astronomical Society

Chief features editor, Scientific American

Assistant professor of physiological nursing, School of Nursing, UC San Francisco

Journalist, Le Monde

Freelance writer

Professor, physiology, UC San Francisco

Associate professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, UC San Francisco

Director, Dark Energy Survey, Fermilab & University of Chicago

Assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics, UC San Francisco

Professor, earth and planetary science & environmental science, policy and management, UC Berkeley

Independent journalist

President and editor-in-chief, Annual Reviews

Associate professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, UC San Francisco

Professor, Department of Statistics and Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University

Assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences, UC San Francisco

Science reporter, BuzzFeed News

Science correspondent, BBC News

Editorial director, Intellectual Ventures

Editor, Mosaic

Senior communications advisor, CERN

Truth Initiative Distinguished Professor of Tobacco Control
, UC San Francisco

Science journalist

Assistant vice president, Translational Research in Special Populations, The University of Arizona Health Sciences

CEO, Big Van Science and editor, National Geographic (Spain)

Professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy; UC Berkeley

Faculty director & founding chair, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University

Paleontologist, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Freelance journalist and producer

Co-host, Gastropod

Independent journalist

Professor emeritus, religion and ethics, Dartmouth College

Online news editor, Science

Emeritus professor, Emerging Infectious Diseases Program, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

Founder and director, The Third Pole

Chief scientist, Narrative Science

National correspondent, The New York Times

Science correspondent, NPR

Group leader, Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO

Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco

Founding director, Master of Arts in Earth Systems, Environmental Communication Program, Stanford University

Director, Science Communication Program, UC Santa Cruz

Dean, Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, UC Berkeley

Health, science and environment editor, The Washington Post

Freelance journalist & immediate past president, National Association of Science Writers

Science reporter, Le Monde

Associate professor, landscape architecture & environmental planning and urban design, UC Berkeley

Editor and regional consultant, SciDev.Net Latin America; editor in chief, Galería Magazine

Teresa & John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Environmental Science & Policy, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Harvard University

Health and medicine journalist and writer

Ph.D. fellow, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society

Chancellor's associate professor of public policy and director of the Global Policy Laboratory, UC Berkeley

Associate professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Director emeritus, Science Communication Program, UC Santa Cruz

Editor in chief, Hakai Magazine

Freelance writer

Assistant professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Cornelius Tilghman Professor of English, Journalism and Environmental Humanities, University of Delaware

Managing director, Innovative Genomics Institute, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco

Director, DevComs Network

Director of research and research scholar, The Hastings Center

Director, Insight and Analysis, Wellcome Trust

Research scholar, The Hastings Center

Adjunct professor, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Professor, energy and resources & public policy, UC Berkeley

Science writer, Snopes.com

Professor, integrative biology, UC Berkeley

Postdoctoral fellow, UC San Francisco

Professor of psychology, UC Berkeley

Assistant director of communications, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

Chief news editor, Nature Medicine

Freelance broadcast journalist, BBC, The Guardian

Professor of orofacial sciences, UC San Francisco

Independent science and data journalist

Professor, neuroscience and psychology, UC Berkeley

Assistant professor of cell and tissue biology, School of Dentistry, UC San Francisco

President and chief scientific officer, Allen Institute for Brain Science

Professor, Institute for Health and Aging, School of Nursing, UC San Francisco

Senior science reporter, FiveThirtyEight.com

Freelance science journalist

Vice president, Innovation, Global Health and Science Policy Communication, Johnson & Johnson

Science reporter, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Science Magazine

Managing director, F1000 Group

Director and senior fellow, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy

Science journalist, El Mercurio

Director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

Freelance journalist

Professor of anthropology, UC Berkeley

Professor and chair, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology; HHMI Investigator; and director, UCSF Center for Systems & Synthetic Biology

Assistant professor, molecular and cell biology, UC Berkeley

Senior writer, Undark

Communication scientist, National Library of Medicine

Science editor, The Verge

Investigative reporter, Televisa News

Assistant professor, The Cyprus Institute

Unit chief, noncommunicable disease, Pan American Health Organization

Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, UC San Francisco

Professor of medicine, UC San Francisco

Professor of astronomy, UC Berkeley

Professor, electrical engineering and computer sciences, UC Berkeley

Health editor, Mail and Guardian

Professor and director, Digital Transformation, Department of Medicine, UCSF

Professor, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law

Chief medical writer, The Associated Press

Associate professor of medicine, UC San Francisco

Reporter, The New York Times (retired)

Host, Catástrofe Ultravioleta

Managing editor, Sapiens Magazine

Regional medical writer (Asia), The Associated Press

Freelance journalist, National Geographic

Science journalist

News reporter, InsideClimate

Contributor, National Geographic

Executive editor, VICE Media's global operations

Senior editor, Mother Jones

Journalist, Ambiental Media and InfoAmazonia

Associate director for research, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health

Science editor, KQED

Presenter and journalist, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Freelance science journalist, Mexican Network of Science Journalists (RedMPC)

Senior lecturer, social anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand

Freelance environmental writer

Co-founder and executive director, Agência Mural de Jornalismo das Periferias, Folha de São Paulo

Freelance reporter

Bureau chief, Americas, Nature

Science journalist and communicator, Laval University

President, Global Health Division, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Founder and CEO, Intellectual Ventures; founder, Modernist Cuisine; vice chairman, TerraPower

Freelance science writer

Coates Family Professor of Neuroscience, UC Berkeley

Freelance science journalist and author

News editor, Kenya Broadcasting 
Corporation

Distinguished writer in residence, New York University; co-founder, Retraction Watch; editor at large, MedPage Today

Deputy director, Health Initiative of the Americas, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

Executive director, Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X)

Science editor, WIRED

Sandler Faculty Fellow, UC San Francisco

Minister of Science and Technology, Republic of South Africa

Professor of medicine, UC San Francisco

Associate professor of astronomy, UC Berkeley

Science writer, NASA Goddard

Freelance science journalist, Mexican Network of Science Journalists (RedMPC)

Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabble professor of physics, University of California, Berkeley; senior scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

CEO, Perlara

Professor, nuclear engineering, UC Berkeley

Assistant professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University

Paleontologist, Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio

Senior investigator and director, Convergence Zone, Gladstone Institutes; professor of biostatistics, UC San Francisco; Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator

Founder, daily science section of La Nación (Costa Rica), and Spanish language website of Scientific American

Freelance science journalist, author, lecturer; Scientific American, Revistas Muy Interesante, El Tiempo

Science editor, Aeon Magazine

Editor, Nature India

Professor of immunology and pediatrics, UC San Francisco

Host, El Método (podcast) and founder, Cuonda (Spanish-language podcast network)

Contributing correspondent, Science Magazine

Freelance science writer

Professor, preventive and restorative dental sciences, School of Dentistry, UC San Francisco

President, Public Health Foundation of India

Senior editor for biomedicine, MIT Technology Review

Lecturer and program director, Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida College of Medicine

Science writer, Vox

Head, arctic and environment unit, Saami Council

Professor and head of the Division of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

Photographer, cinematographer, and film director

Bestselling author of Grunt, Gulp, Stiff and many more

Freelance science journalist

Mental health coordinator, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Deputy editor, WIRED

Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Freelance science journalist

Professor, Departments of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science; and Neurological Surgery, UC San Francisco

Professor of bioengineering and therapeutic sciences, Schools of Pharmacy & Medicine, UC San Francisco

Professor of medicine, UC San Francisco

Freelance and senior fellow, Harvard Kennedy School

Professor, biodiversity conservation, Colegio de la Frontera Sur

Associate professor, health research and policy, Stanford University

Editor in chief, For Science magazine

Manager, science communications, UC Berkeley Media Relations

Correspondent, Himal Khabarpatrika

Assistant professor of architecture, UC Berkeley

Associate professor, science and technology studies, Virginia Tech

Freelance journalist

Freelance writer

Professor, civil and environmental engineering, UC Berkeley

Senior astronomer, SETI Institute

Health editor, NPR

Editor at large, Science News

Editorial coordinador, Revista Muy Interesante Mexico

Award-winning author of Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

President, African Federation of Science Journalists and South African Science Journalists Association

Independent science writer and communicator

Aassociate professor, Kent State University College of Public Health

Associate professor of psychiatry, UC San Francisco

President, The Hastings Center

Director, Gladstone Institutes, UC San Francisco

Freelance science reporter, Hostwriter.org; WPK (German Association of Science Journalists)

Freelance science journalist, De Standaard, Eos

International news editor, Science

Communications officer, The Pew Charitable Trusts

Assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, UC San Francisco

Journalist and author of A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis

Professor and director, Fisheries Economics Research Unit & the OceanCanada Partnership, University of British Columbia

Founder and director, Society of Indonesian Science Journalists

Staff editor, The Christian Science Monitor

Library specialist, Industry Documents Library, UC San Francisco

Managing editor, Asian Scientist Magazine

Astronomer, SETI Institute

Freelance science journalist

Environment and life sciences editor, New Scientist

Scientist, Farallon Institute

Special writer and head of media projects, Section 27

Former team leader for pandemic and outbreak communication, World Health Organization

Biochemist, UC Berkeley, and former president, HHMI

Managing news editor, Science

Astrophysicist, Yale University and former president, American Astronomical Society

Journalist and correspondent, Citiscope.org

Director, Global Cancer Program, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Freelance science writer and reporter

Executive director, Bird's Eye Communications

Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, UC San Francisco

Independent journalist and MPH candidate

Executive director, InquireFirst

Regular user, Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array and university academic fellow, University of Leeds

Science and technology correspondent, Al Jazeera and PBS

Freelance journalist and author

Deputy executive director, Japan Science and Technology Agency

Senior editor, Aeon Magazine

Environment writer, National Geographic

Chief scientist, UC Berkeley SETI Research Center

Science journalist

Director, Center for WorkLife Law, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco

Science philanthropy journalist, Inside Philanthropy

Senior editor, Canadian Geographic

Freelance writer, The Wall Street Journal (retired)

Assistant professor of psychiatry, UC San Francisco

James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of chemistry, UC Berkeley

Executive editor, Middle East, Nature Research

Author, I Contain Multitudes and staff writer, The Atlantic

Executive editor, Undark

Columnist, The New York Times and contributing national correspondent, STAT

President and CEO, The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Host, Science Vs (podcast)