Ray Moynihan Explained

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

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

• 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, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Sex drugs for women don't seem to be working, 1 Sep 2010, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Australia Correspondent - Ray Moynihan . 12 December 2012 . 25 October 2022.
2. Web site: Calendar - The Wheeler Centre: Books, Writing, Ideas . wheelercentre.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101201043713/http://wheelercentre.com/calendar/presenter/ray-moynihan/ . 2010-12-01.
3. Web site: Icarus Films.
4. Web site: Health writer Ray Moynihan :: ABC Queensland. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20050913072533/http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/stories/s1396246.htm. 2005-09-13. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
5. Web site: Ray Moynihan. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
6. Web site: Ray Moynihan AUS - The Commonwealth Fund . www.commonwealthfund.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090503054406/http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Fellowships/Harkness-Fellowships/1998-1999-Fellows/Ray-Moynihan--AUS.aspx . 2009-05-03.
7. Web site: How to disentangle doctors and drug companies | Moynihan | Array . 2010-10-24 . dead . https://archive.today/20120909010543/http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/view/145/68 . 9 September 2012 . dmy-all .
8. Web site: Ray Moynihan - Unleashed (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101026041159/http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/ray-moynihan-29726.html. 2010-10-26. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
9. Web site: Allen & Unwin - Author Display . www.allenandunwin.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120324204445/http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=311&author=472 . 2012-03-24.