Clare Wilson

Clare Wilson is a health journalist focused on medicine, health policy, neuroscience, archaeology and the life sciences. She previously edited medical features for New Scientist. Before that, she was a reporter for Hospital Doctor, a weekly magazine for doctors, and for Scrip, a newsletter for the pharmaceutical industry.

Clare writes New Scientist’s weekly health newsletter, which goes out on Saturdays, and is an occasional guest on BBC World Service's health magazine programme. She has won awards from the Medical Journalists’ Association and the Guild of Health Writers. She has a BSc in cell biology from the University of Manchester.