MEET THE
SPEAKERS
DR NORMAN SWAN AM
Health Journalist / Broadcaster / Commentator
Dr Norman Swan co-hosts RN’s Health Report and the popular What’s That 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 Television’s 730 and Midday 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 University of Sydney, a Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and the Medal of the Order of Australia (AM).
He has three best selling books, So You Think You Know What’s Good For You and So You Want To Live Younger Longer and his latest, 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.
Norman trained in medicine and paediatrics in Aberdeen, London and Sydney before joining the ABC. In addition to his medical degree, he is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (in paediatrics) and has a Diploma in Child Health from the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of England.
SUE ROBINS
Author / Speaker / Health Care Advocate
Sue Robins is a Vancouver-based author, speaker and health care advocate. Her lived experience includes caregiving, as her youngest son Aaron has Down syndrome. She gained the patient perspective in oncology with a breast cancer diagnosis
and subsequent treatment.
Sue’s first book, Bird’s Eye View is a book about patient experience. Her second book, Ducks in a Row, is about reimagining the health care system through compassion, storytelling and partnering with patients.
Sue has held family leadership positions with the B.C. Children’s Hospital and the Stollery Children’s Hospital. Sue is currently a member of Canadian Medical Association’s Patient Voice. In her day job, she is the senior partner with Bird Comm, a creative health communications company.
