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Dr. Gael Jennings        

Presenter & Commentator for ABC TV; Executive Director of MediaDoc

Dr. Gael Jennings is an award-winning national TV and radio broadcaster with 25 years’ experience as presenter, reporter and TV executive.

Jennings runs MediaDoc, a science communication and media management and training business. Jennings was the Chief Executive Officer at a non-profit organization called Greatconnections Ltd. for two years (2008–10), now part of Leadership Victoria.

She was the ABC’s first national science and medical reporter for TV News, and for the 7.30 Report, presenter of 7.30 Report, reporter of ABC TV’s Quantum and Catalyst, host of ABC radio 774’s mid-morning and afternoon programs, Insight presenter on SBS, and a development producer with ABC TV.

She is an award-winning author of two non-fiction books, Sick As!... Bloody Moments in the History of Medicine and Beyond Belief: How Five Australian Scientists Changed the World. She is a regular commentator on ABC TV News Breakfast and 774 ABC radio. Gael is an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Journalism.

Jennings holds a First Class Honours degree in Science from the University of Melbourne, and PhD in Immunology from The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.

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