Poynter Fellowship in Journalism Lecture: “Scholarship, Media, and the Modern Academic Career"

Lecture date: March 26, 2026

Dr. Jeremy Faust, Editor-in-Chief of MedPage Today; author of the Inside Medicine newsletter; and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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Dr. Faust’s professional portfolio checks off a lot of boxes. He’s an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today (a trusted online source for clinical news across medical specialties), COVID-19 researcher, public health policy wonk, author, and leading science communicator.

It’s the latter role that separates Faust from many of his peers. He spent a good deal of time talking about the importance of health and science communication during a recent visit to Yale as an invited guest of the university’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism program. The March 26 event was sponsored by the Yale School of Public Health and included a lecture by Faust titled “Scholarship, Media, and the Modern Academic Career."