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Bio: Fabio Turone is a science journalist with extensive experience in health and healthcare. In 2016-2017 he was Research Fellow of the Knight Science Journalism Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (Massachusetts). He is a member of the Professional Order of Journalists since 1994. He worked as writer and editor in many Italian outlets («Sapere», «Tempo Medico», «Occhio Clinico» and «Occhio Clinico Pediatria») and contributed as a freelance to many outlets, both for professionals (such as «The BMJ», «Cancer World» and «Research Europe») and the general audience («Corriere della Sera», «l’Espresso», «Panorama», «Undark»). In 1994 he co-founded in Milan the Agency Zadig, serving as executive officer until 2002, when he left it to found the Agency Zoe of scientific and medical information, where he is today CEO and Editor in Chief. Since 2016 he is also Executive Director of the not-for-profit Center for Ethics in Science and Journalism. In recent years Turone has initiated, led and participated in numerous initiatives to improve science journalism and science communication. After holding a course on Computer-assisted Reporting at the Master School of Science Communication of the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS) in Trieste (2001-2004), in the following years he held seminars and workshops on science journalism at the Catholic University in Milan and University of Padua. In 2010 he contributed to establish the professional association of science journalists, SWIM (Science Writers in Italy), being re-elected president in 2015 (with the association he has ideated and conducted several courses for continuing education of journalists accredited with the National Order of Journalists). In 2012 he was invited by UNESCO at the Expert Meeting with Science Ministers of South East Europe in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the following years he ideated and coor- dinated for UNESCO two schools of science journalism and communication in SEE (Belgrade, Serbia, in 2013 and Podgorica, Montenegro, in 2014). From 2012 to 2016 he was co-director of the Erice International School of Science Journalism (co-sponsored by Centro Fermi and the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics). In 2012-13 he was member of the board of the European Union of Science Journalists’ Associations’ (EUSJA) and member of the International Advisory Board and of the Program- me Committee of the 2013 World Conference of Science Journalists in Helsinki (Finland). At the World Conference of Science Journalists 2017 in San Francisco he was appointed in the committee in charge of the formal launch of the European Federation for Science Journalism (in progress) on behalf of the National science journalists associations of UK, France, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Italy. He is member of the governing board and co-Chair of Communication of the 2019 World Conference of Science Journalists, where he will coordinate a new edition of the Balkan School of Science Journalism. He is also working in cooperation with the organisers of ESOF 2020 Trieste to manage – among other initiatives – the European Conference of Science Journalists 2020.

Location: Milan, Italy

Career: Editor

Website: http://www.cesj.eu