Ray Moynihan is an Australian researcher, health journalist, documentary-maker and author. Employed for many years as an investigative journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, he has also worked for the Australian Financial Review and is currently a visiting editor at the British Medical Journal and a conjoint lecturer at the University of Newcastle. He was also a correspondent for Radio New Zealand.[1] His stories regularly appear in the BMJ, The Australian, Crikey and the ABC.in Australia. Moynihan is a prolific public speaker.[2][3]

Early life and career

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Moynihan grew up in Brisbane, Queensland and on graduating from the University of Queensland, worked as a reporter at community radio station 4ZZZ.[4] He joined ABC Radio News Brisbane in the mid 1980s as a reporter, staying with the organisation for over a decade in a variety of roles including the presenter of the investigative radio program 'Background Briefing,' reporter for JJJ and the '7.30 Report' and researcher then producer at Four Corners, where he developed a strong interest in health reporting. Moynihan went on to write a number of books.[5] He spent 1999 at Harvard University after winning a Harkness Fellowship,[6] and now works part-time as an academic at the University of Newcastle.[7][8] Moynihan lives in Byron Bay with his partner, filmmaker Miranda Burne.[9] In 2006 Moynihan coordinated an April Fool's Joke with a health campaign about motivational deficiency disorder.

Awards

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  • 1995 - co-recipient (with Dr Norman Swan) of the Peter Grieve Award for medical journalism
  • 1996 - Michael Daley Award for excellence in science journalism
  • 1998 - 1998-1999 Harkness Fellowship in health care policy

Articles

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Bibliography

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  • Too Much Medicine? The business of health and its risks for you , ABC Books, Sydney, 1998
  • Selling Sickness: How drug companies are turning us all into patients, (with Alan Cassels), Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2005
  • Improving population health : the uses of systematic reviews (with Melissa Sweet), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, 2007
  • Ten Questions You Must Ask Your Doctor (with Melissa Sweet), Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2008
  • Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Are Bankrolling The Next Big Medical Condition For Women, (with Dr Barbara Mintzes), Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2010

References

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  1. ^ "Australia Correspondent - Ray Moynihan". 12 December 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Calendar - The Wheeler Centre: Books, Writing, Ideas". wheelercentre.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2010.
  3. ^ "Icarus Films".
  4. ^ "Health writer Ray Moynihan :: ABC Queensland". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 13 September 2005.
  5. ^ "Ray Moynihan". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
  6. ^ "Ray Moynihan AUS - The Commonwealth Fund". www.commonwealthfund.org. Archived from the original on 3 May 2009.
  7. ^ "How to disentangle doctors and drug companies | Moynihan | Array". Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
  8. ^ "Ray Moynihan - Unleashed (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 26 October 2010.
  9. ^ "Allen & Unwin - Author Display". www.allenandunwin.com. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012.