page_title: Stephen McGann
section_title: Science communicator
hierarchical_section_title: Stephen McGann / Career / Science communicator
caption_attribution_description: English: Stephen McGann explaining herd immunity at the 2015 Cambridge Science Festival.
context_page_description: Stephen Vincent McGann
  is an English actor, author, and science communicator, best known for portraying Doctor Patrick Turner in the BBC One medical period drama series Call the Midwife. He is one of a family of acting brothers including Joe, Paul, and Mark.
  McGann was born in Kensington, Liverpool, Lancashire, and began his professional acting career in 1982, starring in the West End musical Yakety Yak. He has since worked extensively in British theatre and on screen.
context_section_description: In addition to his acting, McGann is a public speaker and communicator of science. He graduated from Imperial College London with a master's degree in Science Communication.
  He was a guest speaker at the Cambridge Science Festival in March 2015.  He published a guest essay in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine in April 2015, discussing issues of medical accuracy and communication in Call the Midwife.
  In January 2016, McGann published a companion book to Call the Midwife called Doctor Turner's Casebook, in which he revisits key medical cases featured in the TV series and discusses their historical and social contexts. The BBC screened a documentary special based on the book, titled Call The Midwife: The Casebook, on 15 January 2017.
  In July 2017, McGann published Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Maladies, a personal history of his family over a century and a half as told through the medical ailments they suffered.
  In July 2019, McGann received an honorary doctorate from the University of Liverpool in recognition of his contribution to public health communication, and was a member of the judging panel for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize.
caption: Stephen McGann explaining herd immunity at the 2015 Cambridge Science Festival
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