Dr. Norman Swan
Australia's Most Trusted Doctor & Health Expert
Profile
Dr Norman Swan co-hosts RN’s Health Report and the popular What’s The Rash podcast.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, he co-hosted Coronacast, which had monthly downloads in the millions. Norman is also a reporter and commentator on the ABC’s 7.30, Midday and News Breakfast and has made several Four Corners. He is a past winner of the Gold Walkley – Australia’s top award for journalism and has won other Walkleys, including one with his Coronacast colleagues in 2020.
He created Invisible Enemies, on pandemics and civilisation for Channel 4 UK and SBS which was subsequently broadcast in 27 countries.
Norman has been awarded the medal of the Australian Academy of Science, an honorary MD from the University of Sydney and in October 2022 a Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. On Australia Day 2023, Norman was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (AM).
He has two best selling books, So You Think You Know What’s Good For You and So You Want To Live Younger Longer. His next book, So you Want To Know What’s Best For Your Kids, a one stop handbook for parents of children from birth to 10 years old, will be out in August.
Norman trained in medicine and paediatrics in Aberdeen, London and Sydney before joining the ABC.
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Feedback
Dr Swan's presentation was well tailored to our audience, and provided excellent take-away points for future doctors. He is a very confident and knowledgeable speaker about such a broad range of current affairs and was able to integrate these into his discussion of leadership and teamwork.
We were very impressed with Norman's role as facilitator at our Indigenous Health Workforce Policy Forum and received nothing but positive feedback about him. We felt Norman really added to the level of discussion and set a tone that was both probing and challenging - but also respectful. Dr Kim Webber and I also appreciated the contribution Norman made in planning for the event and developing the agenda.
Delegates were very impressed with Norman's presentation skills as much as what he had to say... just a great communicator. He refreshed them with his knowledge and presentation style.
Dr. Norman Swan was outstanding as the facilitator for our online public lecture as part of the 2022 ACMD Research Week at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne - he was engaging, really asked searching questions of the panel and allowed them to expand on their views and interacted with the online audience. Fantastic session to headline our Research Week - we will definitely do this again!
Excellent panel chair well prepared and familiar with discussion topics, able to draw the best from the panellists.
