Claudia Canavan is Health and Wellness Director at Women’s Health UK, Men’s Health UK, Red and Prima, where she specialises in mind, drugs, hormones and feels. Previously, she was Health Editor at Women’s Health and founded HuffPost UK’s sustainable living vertical, before that. She has also held staff roles at Red and Esquire magazines.

Her writing has explored the complexities of the ‘psychedelic renaissance’, how the ketamine wellness bubble burst, the potential for lucid dreaming to serve as a PTSD therapy and the what the rise of platonic life partnerships says about modern culture.

She is experienced in moderating panels – previous work includes hosting a discussion on clinical psychedelic practice at psychedelic consciousness conference Breaking Convention and another on using psychedelic therapy to treat eating disorders at psychedelic medicine conference PSYCH Symposium. She is regularly featured in media as an authority on women’s health, including on Jane Garvey and Fi Glover’s Times Radio show.

Active in the climate movement as part of grassroots campaign group Fossil Free London, she also appears on panels around environmental issues, including social network Curv’s Earth Club.

She holds an MA in Magazine Journalism from City, University of London and a BA in Religion and Theology from the University of Manchester.