Vaccine hesitancy and disinformation
Who spreads misinformation and why (The Inoculation, 2021)
On the fence (how Italy experienced the consequences of pre-COVID anti-vaccine sentiment — Are We Europe, 2021)
How vaccinations became a matter of belief (Nara, 2021)
How anti-vaccination movements pull parents in (The Inoculation, 2021)
Health governance
Mandatory vaccination: can it backfire? (interviews with former EU health commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis and international experts, The Inoculation, 2021)
How Malta became a COVID-19 overachiever (The Inoculation, 2021)
Lithuania attempts to tackle its alcohol crisis with welfare cuts (Equal Times, 2016)
Lithuania: alcohol loses its ‘coolness’ tag (Deutsche Welle, 31/01/2018)
Health innovation
Brain control (interview with Maltese scientists developing a bed that patients can control with their brain signals — ReThink podcast, 2020)
Health and human rights
As a news curator and fact-checker at NewsMavens (November 2017 – June 2019), I covered topics like mental health and reproductive rights in Malta
Healing mental disorders with concrete (English version of Media4Change-funded reporting on EU funding and social care for people with mental disabilities in Lithuania, 2016, originally published in 15min.lt)
In Lithuanian
Mano gimdymas kaip ne mano (mistreatment of women during labour – Nara, 2019, English summary here)