Valerie Eliot Smith

Valerie Eliot Smith is a British barrister. She has lived with myalgic encephalomyelitis/(ME) in varying degrees of severity since 1981. Since 2010, she has expanded her earlier research on health and legal matters, with a particular emphasis on ME.

Valerie argues that a completely revised and much broader approach must be adopted towards the ME community's media strategy. She believes that this is essential in order to change the damaging and stigmatised culture which is frequently imputed to the ME community.

Since 2012, Valerie has been documenting her work via her blog Law and Health at https://valerieeliotsmith.com/ The headline topics include The "Secret" Files on ME, Karina Hansen, Prisoner of Denmark, The PACE Trial controversy, "Changing the Narrative" (ie. strategic communications and the media), the English National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Covid-19 and long Covid, and Open Justice.

Since 2014, Valerie has been a Visiting Scholar at the postgraduate Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

Online presence

 * Twitter https://twitter.com/ValeriEliotSmit
 * Facebook https://www.facebook.com/valerie.eliotsmith
 * Website