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As an independent consultant working on health and development, I feel truly honored to be able to attend this workshop specially organized for journalists on covering health issues. The workshop has helped me to network with journalists from Hong Kong, Macao and mainland China, and to understand how journalists look at a health issue when they need to report on it.

The workshop invited experts from various areas to share their experiences of studying, promoting and covering health issues. The expert that impressed me most was Prof. Malik Peiris, who is originally from Sri Lanka and currently working as the director of Hong Kong University Pasteur Center. When I looked at the title of Prof. Malik’s presentation – Ecology, evolution, pathogenesis and the epidemiology of animal and human influenza and other human respiratory viral infections, I believed that this is going to be a very technical presentation and I would be lost in the maze of technical terms. However, I was actually able to follow him as he explained all the technical terms in easy language. I now know better about H1N1 and H5N1.

I do hope this kind of workshop can be organized regularly to allow journalists as well as other people working on health issue to meet and learn from each other on a regular basis, and thus to promote a healthy environment for every one of us.