Felicity Nelson and Cecilia Kwong are helping to develop Longevity magazine, a CLC Creations product, that is launching this year. Cecilia is taking on the role of Science Editor and Felicity will act as the Managing Editor.

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As a member of the national leadership team, Felicity develops relationships with strategic partners to help finance and support an annual science festival involving 200 researchers across 12 cities. Felicity also consults on policy and strategy, including developing and editing the Mission Statement.

Creating an editorial strategy for publicising an international conference on long covid and ME/CFS.

Writing a Communique for government based on the recommendations and outomes from the inaugural Fathering Summit on 14 March 2024.

Running a workshop on how to effectively promote conferences using social media.

Editing Nature’s weekly Cancer Briefing newsletter for scientists, and writing news stories for a global audience.

As an external strategy consultant, Felicity worked with the CEO and Head of Marketing over six months to substantially grow the editorial team and launch a data journalism arm of the business, including recruiting and onboarding a specialist data analyst, a managing editor, GP editors and a team of freelance medical writers.

As COO of a publishing company based in Sydney, Felicity helped lead a team of around 20 people to deliver high-quality journalism to Australian doctors. Felicity was the lead product developer for several profit-generating new ventures, and hired, trained, managed and mentored employees to carry these projects forwards. This project work included launching a podcast, a webinar business, a live covid blog, a magazine for oncologists and a magazine for dermatologists. Felicity also oversaw the development and training of several specialist magazine editors and a new managing editor.

Writing exclusive health stories (co-published with The Medical Republic).

Script writing for Veritasium, a science history YouTube channel with 11 million subscribers.

Felicity led the launch of a new magazine for Australian oncologists. She was involved in stakeholder engagement, editorial board recruitment, vision and strategy, web development, story idea generation, feature writing and project management. Felicity also spent a month training an experienced clinical editor to replace me on this magazine so she could focus on launching Dermatology Republic.

Writing quick turn-around news on popular science for a consumer audience.

I recruited an editorial board and designed an interactive ‘Coming Soon’ page to advertise this project. I oversaw the development of the website.

As Associate Editor for Rheumatology Republic, Felicity produced a print magazine and fortnightly newsletter for Australian rheumatologists. Felicity worked with Dr Irwin Lim, our rheumatologist editor, to create workflows that fitted around his busy schedule so the magazine could benefit from all his insights. Felicity attended international conferences for rheumatologists in Madrid and Chicago and interviewed leading doctors on their research and expertise. Felicity recruited, mentored, briefed and edited the work of a team of freelancers. She also spent three months recruiting and training my replacement so she could focus on launching Oncology Republic.

In this role, I wrote news and feature for a daily e-newsletter and monthly print magazine for commercial lawyers.

Editing an online and print publication for allergists, respiratory physicians and immunologists.

In this role, Felicity wrote features on tropical wildlife biology for an audience of fishermen.