European Medical Writers Association (EMWA)

EMWA is the European Medical Writers Association. EMWA is the network of professionals that represents, supports and trains medical communicators in Europe. It is a not for profit organisation that is run for its members by its members.

The European Medical Writers Association was founded in 1989 by a small group of professional biomedical communicators with academic, industrial and journalistic affiliations. EMWA has grown since then and now has over 1,000 members from 39 different countries (including 12 countries outside Europe), and includes academics and professionals working in-house or freelance for pharmaceutical and medical communications companies, research institutes, and in the field of scientific journalism.

EMWA's aim is to provide educational and social networking opportunities for its members. It offers a broad variety of medical writing courses that cover topics including:
• writing and English language skills
• statistics for medical writers
• medical science and pharmacology
• medical writing in drug development
• writing manuscripts for publication
• writing for medical communications
• design and reporting of clinical trials