Professor Carl Philpott’s Media Engagement 2021

Media engagement and awareness for smell and taste disorders has been at an all-time high over the last 18 months due in no small part to the continued impact of Covid-19 on people’s smell and taste.  The important work of Fifth Sense trustee Professor Carl Philpott has been covered extensively in features by Sky News, the Independent, BBC Radio 5 Live and many others.  The press office at the University of East Anglia, where Prof Philpott is based, tell us that his work has had over 1,200 individual pieces of media coverage in 2021 alone.  The increase in exposure that this is giving to Fifth Sense, our cause and all the people we represent can only be of benefit as we continue to grow and develop our work.

We’re sure you’ll join us in saying a big thanks to Carl and his team for their continued hard work and wishing them a relaxing Christmas break after such a busy year.

You can view some of Professor Philpott’s contributions by looking at the links below:

• COVID-19: Vitamin A nasal drops to be trialled to help restore smell loss | Science & Tech News | Sky News
• Smell training: ‘Covid took my sense of smell. A year later I’m training to get it back’ | The Independent
• BBC World Service – Health Check, Brazilian city’s Covid crisis: ‘It’s like Hell’
• Advice not to be sniffed at: ‘Smell training’ could overcome Covid scent loss | ITV News Anglia