Ray Moynihan is an Australian researcher, health journalist, documentary-maker and author. Employed for many years as an investigative journalist at the

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, he has also worked for the

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and is currently a visiting editor at the

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and a conjoint lecturer at the University of Newcastle. He was also a correspondent for

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. His stories regularly appear in the BMJ,

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and the

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.in Australia. Moynihan is a prolific public speaker.

Early life and Career

Ray Moynihan grew up in Brisbane, Queensland and on graduating from the University of Queensland, worked as a reporter at community radio station 4ZZZ. 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 investigative radio program 'Background Briefing,' reporter for JJJ and the '7.30 Report' and as researcher then producer at

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, where he developed a strong interest in health reporting. Moynihan went on to write a number of books. He spent 1999 at Harvard University after winning a Harkness Fellowship, and now works part-time as an academic at the University of Newcastle. Moynihan lives in Byron Bay with his partner, filmmaker Miranda Burne. In 2006 Moynihan coordinated an April Fool's Joke with a health campaign about

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Awards

* 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

''A health check for the business of medicine''
3 Sep 2010, ''

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''Sex drugs for women don't seem to be working''
1 Sep 2010, ''

Bibliography

* ''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

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), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, 2007 * ''Ten Questions You Must Ask Your Doctor'' (with

), 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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