Health journalism. Valeant controversy. Water main decrepitude. Sovereignty referendum retrospective.

Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• Ottawa Life Magazine and The Battlefords News-Optimist reprise a piece by Kathleen O'Grady, a research associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and managing editor at EvidenceNetwork.ca, about the "Panel of International Journalists". The panel brings together health journalists and puts them in touch with academics in the health care field. 
• Lea Prevel Katsanis, a professor in the Department of Marketing at the John Molson School of Business, talks to the Financial Post  about the continuing controversy surrounding certain business practices at Laval-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals, which is alleged to have hidden some special business relationships to pad its sales figures. The article quotes Katsanis and mentions her new book, Global Issues in Pharmaceutical Marketing.
• Adel Hanna, a professor in the Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, appeared at the 1:53-mark of a CBC Montreal television news report last Friday evening about a major water main break that affected parts of the Saint-Michel and Saint-Leonard areas of Montreal.
• Bruce Hicks, a lecturer in the Department of Political Science, was interviewed on CTV News for a retrospective on the 1995 Quebec sovereignty referendum.

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