PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBER

Martin Enserink

Martin Enserink is a Deputy News Editor at Science magazine who specialises in global health. He is based in Amsterdam, but previously worked at Science’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. and as a correspondent based in Paris. He has also served as Science’s European News Editor and International News Editor, a position in which he coordinated and edited news from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He has edited a big portion of Science’s COVID-19 coverage.

Martin’s own writing has focused on global health, infectious diseases, research ethics, misconduct, research funding, and scientific publishing. He won the Communications Award of the American Society for Microbiology in 2004, 2008, and 2012. In 2019, his story about the eradication of yaws, a disfiguring bacterial disease, won the Communications Award from the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.

Martin was a mentor to four African science journalists for 2.5 years in SjCOOP, a programme run by the World Federation of Science Journalists, and he wrote an online course, Covering Ebola, together with Helen Branswell. He also served on the programme committee for WCSJ 2015, in Seoul, Korea and was co-chair of the programme committee for the 2019 edition of the conference in Lausanne, Switzerland.