Euan Black
Euan Black covers health and wellness for The Australian Financial Review, with a focus on how people can avoid preventable disease and extend their healthy years of life. His reporting is driven by a preventive lens: he consistently asks what everyday choices, screening decisions and workplace habits mean for long‑term health outcomes. Drawing on experience across both health and work coverage, he connects clinical risk, lifestyle and the pressures of modern jobs in clear, practical stories.
Preventive health and avoidable disease
Preventable conditions are a recurring thread in Black’s health coverage. In a feature on a preventable cancer claiming a new generation of lives, he traces how rising incidence in younger adults intersects with delayed screening, changing lifestyles and gaps in public awareness, showing where better information and early checks could save lives. He brings the same approach to broader mortality stories, examining causes of death not as static statistics but as problems that can be tackled through earlier intervention, behaviour change and system‑level improvements. His language stays direct and grounded in evidence, making risks understandable without sensationalism and highlighting practical steps that readers can take.
Longevity, ageing and everyday fitness
Black returns often to themes of longevity and healthy ageing, treating fitness as a long‑term investment rather than a short‑term trend. He covers topics such as how to age well, how exercise supports health over decades, and how everyday routines influence lifespan and healthspan, translating medical and scientific research into plain guidance. Personal experimentation is part of his method: he draws on his own training and health experiments as reporting material, using them to test claims, interrogate popular advice and illustrate what new regimes or habits look like in practice. That mix of data, expert input and lived experience distinguishes his pieces from more generic health news, giving his stories a conversational, real‑world texture while keeping them firmly anchored in evidence.
Men’s health and mortality patterns
One of Black’s notable strands of work is men’s health, particularly the diseases and risks that dominate different stages of life. In his piece on “the top killers of men at every decade – and how to beat them,” he breaks down leading causes of death across age groups and then focuses on specific, actionable ways to reduce those risks, from screening schedules to lifestyle changes. He uses clear framing to show how risks evolve through the decades, helping readers see which threats are most pressing at each stage of life and how attention should shift over time. Case studies and reader‑friendly explanations are central: he actively seeks niche case studies to bring statistics into focus, using individual stories to demonstrate how abstract risks play out in real lives and how people are responding. This structure makes complex mortality data accessible and gives his men’s health coverage a practical, problem‑solving tone.
From work and careers to health and wellness
Before specialising in health and wellness, Black wrote extensively about work and careers, including how bosses and workers clash over working from home and how expectations on both sides have changed since the pandemic. That background shapes his health reporting, especially where work and wellbeing intersect: he is attentive to how job design, flexibility, stress and workplace culture feed into physical and mental health risks. His earlier coverage of remote work disputes and workplace dynamics gives him a clear sense of how real jobs operate, which he brings into stories about burnout, inactivity, sleep, and the difficulty of maintaining healthy habits alongside demanding roles. He also has international reporting experience from early in his career, which adds breadth to his perspective on how different societies and systems approach work, health and opportunity. Taken together, this path from work and careers to health and wellness results in coverage that treats health not in isolation, but as something shaped by daily routines, employment conditions and the broader environment in which readers live and work.
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Abida Tasnim
Abida Tasnim is a health writer for The Daily Star who focuses on clear, practical guidance that helps readers recognise risks early and act before everyday illnesses turn into wider public health problems. She reports on infectious disease prevention, using measles coverage to show how outbreaks start with individual decisions and behaviours, not just hospital statistics. Her work explains what happens during an outbreak and then anchors the story in simple steps people can take, such as avoiding crowded places when symptoms appear, practising good hygiene, and seeking medical advice early. She writes direct, action‑oriented health explainers that turn clinical questions about contagion and disease burden into everyday choices. Across her beat, she stresses early recognition, timely care, and prevention as the foundations of healthier communities.
Adrián Carballo Casla
Adrián Carballo Casla stands out for turning complex cohort data on ageing into clear, food‑level advice on what older adults should eat to protect brain health and slow chronic disease. He is a researcher in nutritional epidemiology focused on ageing and chronic disease prevention and a postdoctoral researcher in geriatric epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet, writing health explainers for The Conversation. He reports on how diet quality, especially Mediterranean and Mind‑style patterns, shapes dementia risk, grey matter loss and neurocognitive ageing, and how healthy versus pro‑inflammatory diets alter multimorbidity trajectories. His articles translate findings on flavonoids, polyphenols, folate, omega‑3 fats and dietary nitrates into specific food choices and small, practical changes. Much of his coverage is anchored in his own studies on multimorbidity, high‑risk older adults and tailored dietary recommendations, often syndicated to other outlets.
Ahmed Elbediwy
Ahmed Elbediwy brings a lab-based understanding of cancer biology and clinical biochemistry to public-facing health reporting, linking drug mechanisms and molecular pathways to everyday choices about medicines and products. He writes for The Conversation on weight-loss injections, cancer overdiagnosis and anti-ageing supplements, focusing on obesity medicine, cancer signalling, screening trade-offs, skincare and supplement science. His pieces on GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro explain why some people do not respond, how gut hormones and appetite signals work, and where psychological support and nutrition fit alongside prescriptions. He co-authors explainers on cancer risk and overdiagnosis and on whether supplements can reverse ageing, separating established knowledge from emerging research. An award-winning senior lecturer at Kingston University, he favours clear, structured explainers, careful definition of key terms and evidence-based appraisal over hype.
Amanda Sheppeard
Amanda Sheppeard is a managing editor and health journalist known for long, detailed explainers that connect complex clinical research, disability policy and political narratives with the daily realities of doctors and patients. She works at The Medical Republic across editorial leadership and commercial content while reporting widely on medicine for its specialist titles. Her real beat spans autism, disability policy, autoimmune disease, infectious threats and system pressures in primary care and hospitals. She covers subjects such as autism diagnosis and the NDIS, rheumatology’s clinical shifts, weight-loss agents in rheumatoid arthritis, infection control, antimicrobial resistance and new modalities like CAR T-cell therapy and microneedles. She reports by doing the synthesis inside the story, linking trial design, molecular targets, funding rules and policy changes to concrete decisions and workflows in clinics and hospitals.