Lizzie Parry

Lizzie Parry is a leading health journalist with over 15 years experience. She is Head of Health at The Sun, overseeing all health and wellness content across The Sun, Sun on Sunday, Fabulous magazine and . In August 2016, Lizzie joined News UK as the newspaper’s Digital Health Editor and was made Head of Health in July 2021. She has spearheaded coverage of the Covid pandemic, as well as a number of award-winning campaigns, including No Time 2 Lose, which succeeded in putting pressure on the Government to lower the bowel cancer screening age from 60 to 50 in 2018. Lizzie was also instrumental in launching the Fabulous Menopause Matters campaign in 2021 and the Sun’s Had Our Fill campaign in 2020, which successfully called for procedures like filler and Botox to be banned to those under the age of 18.  Lizzie worked alongside her close friend Dame Deborah James to raise awareness of bowel cancer, securing the first ever interview with just months after her diagnosis in 2016. She edited Dame Debs’ Sun Online column, Things Cancer Made Me Say and along with colleagues at The Sun was instrumental in her Damehood in the weeks before she died in June 2022. Working with Dame Debs’ family, Lizzie continues to support her Bowelbabe Fund, which has raised more than £12million to help fund research into the disease. Lizzie works closely with NHS and TV GP, Dr Zoe Williams, editing her weekly column Ask Dr Zoe, and is part of the team who organises The Sun’s annual Who Cares Wins awards, to recognise the incredible work of healthcare workers across the UK. Lizzie started her career as a news reporter at two daily local newspapers in Suffolk, the and before moving to where she worked as a news reporter covering major events like the death of Nelson Mandela and the mysterious disappearance of MH370. While at Mail Online Lizzie moved onto the Health desk, covering the largest outbreak of Ebola in history, becoming Deputy Health Editor in London and moving to New York to set up The Mail’s health desk there in 2015. She graduated from the with a History degree in 2005 and went on to obtain her postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism. She comes from a family of medics, spanning three generations, including a vascular surgeon, paediatrician, urological surgeon, nurse, obstetrician, anaesthetist and osteopath.