Led by Dr Brooke Nickel, a global team of researchers published a landmark study in JAMA Network Open early in 2025. We analysed 1000 posts on TikTok and Instagram about medical tests which carry the risk of overdiagnosis. We found a massive proportion were misleading, and our study received media attention all over the world, including in the New York Times, the Guardian and on the ABC. You can read our full study here, and our accompanying piece in The Conversation here.

Working with Brunswick Valley Landcare, Ray is about to commence a new Junior Landcare project, with schools in the Northern Rivers of NSW in Australia. The project is funded via the federal government.

With partners across the Northern Rivers of NSW, Ray is launching a free one-day festival called Regeneration, funded by a small NSW government grant. More details here.

In this United Nation’s Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, 2021-2030, its time to celebrate and expand Australia’s burgeoning bush regeneration work, drawing on tens of thousands of years of caring for country. A new project in the Byron Shire of Northern New South Wales will be unveiled very soon.

You can hear the new podcast, The Recovery, which Ray co-hosts with former BMJ editor-in-chief Dr Fiona Godlee, here on the home page of Cochrane Sustainable Healthcare.

In April 2022, The Medical Journal of Australia’s Insight published a short piece titled “Celebrating the moves to Wiser healthcare”, and you can read it here. The piece is a short thank you to all those who are working to wind back medical excess, safely and fairly. As noted in the piece, Ray is taking a break from the world of medicine to study bush regeneration and ecological restoration at TAFE.

Ray will co-host a new podcast series, scheduled for release in late 2021, details to come.

For information about the Preventing Overdiagnosis webinar series, please visit here

Abstracts and registrations are now open for the Preventing Overdiagnosis  international scientific conference, in Sydney December 5-7, 2019, which will be co-sponsored by the WHO. There are discounts for students and consumer/citizen advocates. For more information see here

The 7th international Preventing Overdiagnosis scientific conference will be in Sydney, December 5-7, 2019. Early bird registrations have just gone on sale, and there are discounted registrations for students and consumer/citizens organisations. The conference partners include universities from Australia, UK and USA, as well as one of the world’s leading medical journals, the BMJ. You can visit the conference website here.