We need to debunk the fake news in healthcare, Kim Witczak

Kim Witczak at the Symposium about Scientific Freedom, Copenhagen, 9 March 2019.Show more

Lecture: "Scientific Freedom and Why It Matters - What I wish I knew then ..., Woody's perspective."

Kim Witczak is a leading national drug safety advocate In the US and speaker with over 25 years professional experience in advertising and marketing communications.

She became involved in pharmaceutical drug safety issues after the sudden death of her husband due to undisclosed drug side effect of an antidepressant.

Kim co-founded Woodymatters, a non-profit dedicated to advocating for a stronger FDA and drug safety system.

She co-created and organized the international, multi-disciplinary conference Selling Sickness: People Before Profits conference in Washington, D.C.

In 2016, she was appointed Consumer Representative on the FDA Psychopharmacologic Drug Advisory Committee and is on the Board of Directors of National Physicians Alliance and MISSD (Medication Induced Suicide Prevention in Memory of Stewart Dolin.)

She is an active member of the DC-based Patient, Consumer, and Public Health Coalition making sure the voice of non-conflicted patients and consumers is represented in healthcare/FDA related legislative issues.

This lecture is part of the Symposium about Scientific Freedom and the inauguration of the Institute for Scientific Freedom, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 March 2019.

World renowned Danish scientist Peter C Gøtzsche is the founder of the institute.

The Institute’s primary area of focus is healthcare and the institute has three main visions:

- All science should strive to be free from financial conflicts of interest.

- All science should be published as soon as possible, and made freely accessible.

- All scientific data, including study protocols, should be freely accessible, allowing others to do their own analyses.