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Dr Ray Moynihan is an experienced academic researcher with an international profile, and a background as an award-winning author and journalist. Currently he is Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice at Bond University, where he completed his PhD titled Preventing Overdiagnosis in 2015. In March 2017 he won a prestigious NHMRC Early Career Fellowship.
With stints at the ABC TV’s flagship Four Corners program and the Australian Financial Review, and as columnist at BMJ and MJA, Ray is also a winner of the prestigious Harkness fellowship in healthcare, undertaken at Harvard University.
Dr Moynihan has been lead investigator on original studies published in the NEJM, PLOS Medicine and BMJ Open, and has authored more than 80 research articles, analysis pieces, editorial and commentary in the peer-reviewed literature, including, in The Lancet, BMJ, CMAJ, MJA and elsewhere.
He’s author of 4 books on the business of healthcare, popularising principles of the evidence-based approach and uncovering the problem of too much medicine, including Selling Sickness: translated into 12 languages and described by the New York Times as a “compelling case.” He’s regularly invited to appear in popular media, to speak at national and international meetings, and to peer-review for leading medical journals.
Dr Moynihan is currently engaged in numerous research collaborations investigating the major health challenge of overdiagnosis and has an impressive international network. He’s a Chief Investigator on a 5 year $2.5 million NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence, being run jointly by Bond University and the University of Sydney, where Ray is formally affiliated as an Honorary Adjunct Associate Professor at the Sydney Medical School – Public Health. He has successfully supervised one PhD candidate.
Dr Moynihan is active in research translation, and his work has recognition and impact. He’s a founding member and co-chair of the scientific committee for the highly successful international Preventing Overdiagnosis conference, coming to Sydney in 2019. In 2017 he chaired the planning committee for the Australian National Summit on Overdiagnosis, and has forged links with key professional and consumer organisations.
Ray also hosts the popular podcast – The Recommended Dose – produced by Cochrane Australia, featuring compelling conversations with the world’s leading thinkers in healthcare, including BMJ editor-in-chief Dr Fiona Godlee, JAMA Internal Medicine editor-in-chief Professor Rita Redberg, and Cochrane founder, Sir Iain Chalmers.
Statement for HDR students
My research interests cover overdiagnosis, medicine and the media, and conflicts of interest in healthcare. I have a strong interest in supervising HDR students who are highly motivated to conduct quality research within these areas.
I am a co-supervisor of PhD candidate, Brooke Nicke, and Principal supervisor of PhD candidate, Julia Medew, who commenced February 2017. I and other colleagues will be working with Julia on a range of research projects investigating how to optimise media coverage of medicine, with a focus on diagnostics.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD
2012 → 2015
BA, University of Queensland
1980 → 1984
External positions
Host of Podcast 'The Recommended Dose', Cochrane Australia
2017 → 2018Senior Research Fellow (Honorary), University of Sydney
2016 → …Honorary Conjoint Lecturer, University of Newcastle
2006 → 2011Senior Reporter, Australian Financial Review
2000 → 2002Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Raymond Moynihan is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
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Research Output 2000 2019
Australia is responding to the complex challenge of overdiagnosis REPLY
Moynihan, R., Barratt, A. L. & Glasziou, P. P., Jun 2019, In : Medical Journal of Australia. 210, 11, p. 525-525.e1 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Research
Commercial interests, transparency, and independence: a call for submissions
Moynihan, R., Macdonald, H., Heneghan, C., Bero, L. & Godlee, F., 16 Apr 2019, In : BMJ (Online). 365, l1706.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › Research
Media Coverage of the Benefits and Harms of Testing the Healthy: A protocol for a descriptive study
O'Keeffe, M., Barratt, A., Maher, C., Zadro, J., Fabbri, A., Jones, M. & Moynihan, R., 24 Aug 2019, In : BMJ Open. 9, 8, p. e029532 e029532.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Media Coverage of the Benefits and Harms of the 2017 Expanded Definition of High Blood Pressure
Moynihan, R. N., Clark, J. & Albarqouni, L., 1 Feb 2019, In : JAMA Internal Medicine. 179, 2, p. 272-273 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Research › peer-review
Public perceptions of changing the terminology for low-risk thyroid cancer: A qualitative focus group study
Nickel, B., Semsarian, C., Moynihan, R., Barratt, A., Jordan, S., McLeod, D., Brito, J. P. & McCaffery, K., 1 Feb 2019, In : BMJ Open. 9, 2, e025820.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Activities 1990 2019
Preventing Overdiagnosis Scientific Committee (External organisation)
Ray N Moynihan (Chair)Activity: Membership › Committees, Boards and Panelists
JAMA Internal Medicine (Journal)
Ray N Moynihan (Reviewer)Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer-review
University of Sydney (External organisation)
Ray N Moynihan (Chair)Activity: Membership › Committees, Boards and Panelists
External HDR Supervision - Brooke Nickel
Raymond Moynihan (Supervisor)Activity: Professional Development, Mentorship, Supervision and Other Activities › External HDR Supervision
Critical and Ethical Mental Health Care Institute (External organisation)
Ray N Moynihan (Member)Activity: Membership › Committees, Boards and Panelists
Press / Media
Removing the C-Word From Low-Risk Diseases
17/08/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Drop 'cancer' label to protect patients from over-treatment, researchers say
12/08/18 → 13/08/18
7 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Drop the C-word to reduce anxiety and overtreatment, say experts
13/08/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Drop the C-Word to Reduce Anxiety and Over-Treatment, Say Experts
13/08/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Student theses
Preventing Overdiagnosis
Author: Moynihan, R., 13 Jun 2016Supervisor: Glasziou, P. P. (Supervisor) & Doust, J. A. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis