The annual MJA Awards recognise and reward outstanding examples of health and medical journalism. Each year we review awards categories to ensure they reflect both the diversity of our membership and the media in which we work.
These include awards for news and features in media for both a general and a specialist audience, as well as broadcast and digital prizes. Every year we also highlight subject which is particularly challenging to cover, or, we believe, warrants greater recognition
Occasionally we recognise an exceptional contribution to communicating health and medicine with a lifetime achievement award.
Details of the Awards 2018 and entry procedure.
In 2018 the MJA introduced a new Award for Excellence in PR with support from the Healthcare Communications Association.
Details of the MJA Award for Excellence in PR and the entry procedure
Thank you to our 2018 sponsors
Dr Oliver Gillie for his lifelong commitment to the advancement of communication in science and medicine and in particular in the area of Vitamin D.
Claire Rayner (OBE), the nurse, journalist, broadcaster, agony aunt and health campaigner whose last words were: “Tell David Cameron that if he screws up my beloved NHS I’ll come back and bloody haunt him.”
Professor Jonathan Miller, the doctor, celebrated writer, broadcaster, and theatre and opera director.
Ronnie Bedford (OBE) a founder member of the MJA and legendary science reporter for the Daily Mirror who once famously asked NASA officials ‘Will the astronauts be carrying cyanide kits to the moon?’
Dr Michael O’Donnell, a physician, journalist, author, broadcaster and GMC ‘rebel’ and reformer, who presented television programmes including Is Your Brain Really Necessary and edited the ground-breaking magazine World Medicine.
Dr David Delvin, an award-winning physician, journalist, author and broadcaster who has written 27 books and appeared on more than 800 radio and TV programmes.
The Sun’s health features editor Christina Earle was awarded two prestigious MJA awards three months after her tragic death. The 31-year-old, described by colleagues as a ‘remarkable’ and ‘formidable’ journalist, Read more…
The inaugural MJA Award for Excellence in PR has been won by the University of Bath for their media campaign to publicise new research on the way targeted exercise can reduce Read more…
Our judges have deliberated, debated and drawn up their shortlists for the 2018 Medical Journalists’ Association Awards — and as you would expect from the UK’s most prestigious awards for health Read more…
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