Helping people make better health decisions
The Lisa Schwartz Foundation is a tribute to the wonderful life and work of Lisa Schwartz, a physician and researcher who dedicated her career to helping doctors, patients, journalists and policy makers understand the benefits, harms and limitations of medicine so they could make wiser decisions.
Medicine in the Media
2026 Details Coming Soon
About the Medicine in Media Workshop
Medicine in the Media is a free, in-person 3 ½ day workshop held at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service to help journalists hone their skills in reporting on medical research.
The workshop is led by expert faculty, including Steven Woloshin and Barry Kramer, with over a decade of experience running a similar workshop in the past, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
The workshop is now funded by the Arnold Ventures philanthropy.
Drug & Screening Facts Boxes
Aduhelm (Aducanumab)
“What we are hoping to change in medical communication is for people to get closer to the truth. A lot of what you read about medicine sounds too good to be true, or sometimes even too bad to be true. Our goal has been to give people a realistic sense of what is known and what is not known – how hopeful or worried they should be. We want to provide understandable medical information that hasn’t been influenced by other interests and that isn’t trying to sell or promote anything.”
Lisa Schwartz, MD, MS