Alan Cassels will be discussing flu shots in general and will also be delving into what the latest research says about children and the flu shot. Alan has been immersed in pharmaceutical policy research for the past 28 years, primarily working on studies of how prescription drugs are studied, regulated, marketed, and prescribed. He has lectured and published widely on the widening chasm between the marketing and the science behind prescribing.
His books include the international bestseller, Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning us All into Patients (co-written with Ray Moynihan), The ABCs of Disease Mongering: An Epidemic in 26 Letters, Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease, and the Cochrane Collaboration: Medicine’s Best Kept Secret.