Norman Swan MBChB, FRCP, MD (Hon), DCH (RCP&S Eng)

Host of the Health Report, on ABC Radio National, Dr Norman Swan has won numerous awards for his journalism and broadcasting, including three Walkley Awards, one of which was Australia's most prestigious award for journalism, the Gold Walkley. He has also won Australi 's leading award for science journalism, the Michael Daly Award twice. Norman was the third recipient ever of the medal of the Australian Academy of Science, has a Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and an honorary MD from the University of Sydney.

Norman originally trained in medicine and paediatrics in Scotland, London and Sydney and in addition to the Health Report, he presents “Health Minutes” on ABC NewsRadio each week and edits his own newsletter, The Choice Health Reader.

On television, in addition to two major documentary series shown internationally, Dr Swan has hosted Quantum , been a guest reporter on Catalyst and Four Corners .and hosted Health Dimensions on ABC Television.

He was also the Australian correspondent for the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal and has consulted to the World Health Organisation on global priorities in health research, putting evidence into health policy and in 2008 will chair a meeting of the world's health ministers in Africa.