Beyond Well Science/Dr. Dee Mangin

The Story

Dr Mangin is the chief medical advisor for Risk.org An advocate for better independent information for patients and their doctors on drugs, Dee has published widely on the rational use of drugs, including ‘deprescribing’ trials for polypharmacy and for individual drugs. She is co-editor of a WHO manual for medical and pharmacy students on understanding and responding to drug company promotion, as well as articles and book chapters addressing polypharmacy in older age. Dee is interested in the influence of commerce and politics on the science of medicine and was involved in a campaign to ban direct to consumer advertising of medicines in New Zealand.