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Naga Munchetty | Alice Bacon Lecture

Date
Date
Thursday 6 February 2025, 18:30 - 19:30
Location
Great Hall
Celebrated broadcaster and journalist Naga Munchetty is to give the 2024/5 Alice Bacon Lecture at the University of Leeds on Thursday 6th February 2025.
The lecture will take place at 18:30 – 19:30 in the Great Hall at the University of Leeds. Doors will open at 18:00. After the lecture there will be a drinks reception. This is a public lecture and it is free to attend – to secure a place, please register for a ticket.
Naga Munchetty will speak about gendered inequalities in healthcare, medical misogyny, and her fight to have her health taken seriously. Drawing on examples from her upcoming book, It's Probably Nothing: Critical Conversations on the Women's Health Crisis, she will also speak about the personal significance of this topic to her following her own experiences with the contraceptive coil and the gynecological condition, adenomyosis.
Naga, who is known nationwide for her work as a journalist and broadcaster, has spoken previously on the topic at the UK Commons Women's and Equalities Commission, where she described the “woefully misunderstood, ignorance, stigma and shame” surrounding women’s health. Her career as a journalist began at the Evening Standard and The Observer newspapers, and Naga soon moved into reporting for Reuters Financial Television. Her love of financial matters, news and television led her to CNBC Europe where she became an Executive Producer. She has also worked as a Producer and Reporter for Channel 4 News, before becoming an anchor for Bloomberg Television and then a regular presenter on BBC Breakfast. In addition to her prolific television work, Naga is a familiar voice on radio, fronting her own show on BBC Radio 5 Live. She is now using her platform as a journalist to advocate for a change in the way that women’s health is treated.
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