Lucía Sapiña García
Health communication | Researcher
Lucía Sapiña has a PhD in Historical and Social Studies on Science, Medicine and Scientific Communication (Universitat de València). She has a degree in Journalism (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) and a Master’s in History of Science and Scientific Communication (Universitat de València). She is a journalist at Mètode, the science dissemination journal of the Universitat de València. She is currently a partial-time professor at the Department of Language Theory and Communication Sciences at the Universitat de València (Spain) where she teaches Dissemination of scientific and technological information in the Journalism degree. She has also been professor at the Department of History of Science and Documentation at the same university.
She belongs to the research group Observatory of the Two Cultures (GIUV2013-170), which aims to analyse the relationship between the scientific and journalistic fields. She is also part of the working team of the European project COALESCE (Coordinated Opportunities for Advanced Leadership and Engagement in Science Communication in Europe) and of the project HEALTHCOMM: Pseudoscience, Conspiracy Theories, Fake News, and Media Literacy in Health Communication.