- Selected Presentations. Apologies is some of the links no longer work.
- Human Rights, gender budgeting and progressive breastfeeding, speaker, Australia, global , virtual, 2021
- International Medicine in the Addictions, panel member, International, Virtual, 2021
- Preventing Overdiagnosis, speaker, International, Virtual, 2020
- Wiser Healthcare, speaker, Australia, 2020
- Building trust and Transparency, panel member, Sydney, National, 2020
- Preventing Overdiagnosis, Sydney, International, multiple presentations, 2019
- University of Adelaide Seminar Series, Adelaide, 2019
- Wiser healthcare, speaker, Australia, 2019
- Getting Better with the Evidence, speaker, New Zealand, 2019
- Australasian Podiatry conference, speaker, Adelaide, 2019
- Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service, Clinical Senate, presentation, 2019
- Presentations at Preventing Overdiagnosis conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018
- Plenary presentation, Too Much Medicine symposium, Helsinki, Finland, 2018
- Plenary Presentation, June 2018 Prato Italy (via video)
- Plenary Presentation, National Medicines Symposium, May,2018, Australia
- Workshop, Rural Doctors Association Queensland, June 2018, Australia
- Presentation and chair, National Summit on Overdiagnosis, July 2017
- Presentation, Australian Medical Students Association, July 2017
- Presentation to the Woodford Folk Festival, Woodford, December 2016, Australia
- Session chair, NHMRC Research Translation meeting, Melbourne, November 2016, Australia
- Keynote at the GPCE conference, Brisbane, August, 2016, Australia
- Plenary presentation to the “Eco-friendly hospitals for a sustainable world” meeting, Brisbane, February 2016, Australia
- Plenary presentation and co-presenting associated workshop on covering conflicts of interest at the Australasian Cochrane Symposium, Melbourne, November, 2015, Australia
- Keynote at the Bond University Higher Degree Research conference, Gold Coast, November, 2015, Australia
- Delivered Keynote at Preventing Overdiagnosis conference, Washington DC, September, 2015, United States
- Co-presented an evidence-based workshop with Professor Paul Glasziou at the Australasian Medical Writers Association, Brisbane, August, 2015, Australia
- Presented on findings of a national survey on overdiagnosis at the 7th International Shared Decision Making (ISDM) Conference and the 4th International Society for Evidence-Based Health Care (ISEHC) Conference, Sydney, July, 2015, Australia
- Presented at the Australasian Medical Writers Association conference, Sydney, August 2014, Australia
- Presented on expanding disease definitions at seminar on the work of the Center for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Bond University, Gold Coast, March 2014, Australia
- Presented on expanding disease definitions at Gold Coast Health and Medical Research Conference November 29, 2013, Australia
- Co-organised and presented at “Medicalising Normality” session, Festival of Ideas, Melbourne, October 2013, Australia
- Co-organised and presented at an Overdiagnosis Session, Cochrane Colloquium, Quebec City, September 2013, Canada
- Presented on Expanding Disease Definitions, Preventing Overdiagnosis conference, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 2013, United States
- Opening Keynote, Diagnosis & Treatment: Too Much Medicine? conference, Newcastle, August 2013, Australia
- Organised and presented an Overdiagnosis Symposium, Cochrane Colloquium, Auckland, October 2012, New Zealand
- Annual conference Australasian College of Health Service Management, Gold Coast, August 2012, Australia, MC
- Sex Lies and Pharmaceuticals, Griffith University Grand Rounds, Gold Coast, October 2011, Australia
- DVD and Live Skype presentation, Finnish Medical Journal press conference, Helsinki, September 2011, Finland
- How to be a Healthy Sceptic, Workshop, Byron Bay, August 2011, Australia
- Sex Lies and Pharmaceuticals, Law and Bioethics conference presentation, Gold Coast, July 2011, Australia
- Live Skype presentation, Medicalisation of Sex conference, Vancouver, April 2011, Canada
- Presentation at Mullumbimby Library, ‘Meet the Author’, April 2011, Australia
- Presentation to International Low Back Pain conference, Melbourne, March 2011, Australia
- DVD and live Skype presentation to Salzburg Global Seminar on medical reporting, Salzburg, December 2010, Austria
- Presentation to Doctors Reform Society, Sydney, 2010, Australia
- Wheeler Centre Soap Box, Melbourne, 2010, Australia
- Keynote presentation Cochrane/Campbell conference, Keystone Colorado, 2010, USA
- Workshop on disease-mongering, University of British Columbia, 2010, Canada
- Presentation at City University, New York, 2010, USA
- Keynote address to Selling Sickness conference Amsterdam, 2010, Holland
- Presentation & workshop on disease-mongering, Groningen, 2010, Holland
- Special Debate at British Medical Journal, London, 2010, UK
- Workshop on disease-mongering, University of Algarve, 2010, Portugal
- Workshop on disease-mongering, Portuguese Medical Association, 2010, Portugal
- Week-long workshop on disease-mongering and public health, Menorca, 2010, Spain
- Presentation at PRBB, Barcelona, 2010, Spain
- Book launches in Sydney, Byron, Lismore, Brisbane, Melbourne, 2010, Australia
- DVD presentation, Disease-Mongering: the Disguised Marketing of Drugs conference of Pharmaceutical Life Cycle, September 2009, Milan, Italy
- Presentation on Selling Sickness, July 2009, Alicante University, Spain
- Evidence Based Health Policy Lecture, La Trobe University, 2008, Australia
- DVD presentations at conferences in 2008 in New Zealand (Pharmacy), Colombia (Rational Use of Medicines), Venezuela (Disease-Mongering) – followed by live phone-Skype hook-ups
- DVD Presentation on entanglement and selling sickness, German National Science Writers, November 17, 2008 , Germany
- DVD Presentation on Rational Prescribing, to “Beyond the Garden”: a conference about the politics and the practices of welfare and public health. November 17-21, 2008, Trieste, Italy,
- DVD Presentation to Cochrane meeting on Systematic Reviews, November 3, 2008 Naples, Italy
- Presentation to Byron Bay Writers Festival, 2007, Australia
- Presentation to Consumers International Congress, 2007, Sydney, Australia
- Workshop for GP conference, July 5, 2006, Perth, Australia,
- Presentation to Inaugural International Conference on Disease-Mongering, April 2006, Newcastle, Australia
- Presentation to National Prescribing Service conference, 2005, Sydney, Australia
- Presentation, Commonwealth Fund/Nuffield Trust W/S, 2005, United Kingdom
- Evidence and Cost-Effectiveness workshop for journalists, AHCJ, 2005, March 31, North Carolina, USA
- Keynote address, Society of Behavioural Medicine, 2005, April 15, Boston, USA
- Presentation to Integrity in Science conference, hosted by Center for Science in the Public Interest, 2004, Washington D.C., USA
- “Time to disentangle doctors from drug companies” at conference called LE RISORSE PER L’UOMO, May 14, 2004, Lecco, Italy
- Presentation at conference: “Translating Research into Practice,” Wake Forest University School of Medicine on May 8 and 9, 2003 Winston-Salem, NC, USA
- Presentation: Medicine, Money and the Media: Reflections on the Role of Evidence in the Business of Health Care. Cochrane Collaboration meeting, March 29, 2003, Melbourne, Australia
- Presentation to CHSRF conference on use and abuse of anecdotes in health policy, March 2003, Montreal , Canada
- Evidence Based Medicine Workshop for Health Care Journalists, March 15, 2003, San Francisco, USA
- Presentation: How Healthy is Health Reporting: The Media and Medical Evidence , PHAA, 2001 Australia
- Presentation to Berzelius Symposium 54 — Medicine and the Media. 31 August-1 September 2000, Stockholm, Sweden