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The Croakey team

Information about Croakey Health Media’s Board of Directors can be found here.

Social journalism team

Croakey’s Social Journalism team is steered by public health journalist Dr Melissa Sweet, in collaboration with many others. The team includes the editors, as well as contributing editors, columnists and people who collaborate on various projects.

Members of the team wear multiple hats, and the editors declare their conflicts of interest here.

Roles

  • Editor-in-Chief – Overall editorial responsibility; reporting to directors and members; steering social journalism activities and development; outreach and sustainability; organisational development. A CHM director.
  • Managing Editor – Editorial responsibilities; outreach and sustainability; organisational development.
  • Editors – Commissioning, editing, writing and publishing articles. Contributing to social journalism activities and development.
  • Creative director/web developer – Website design and development; graphic design; contributing to social journalism activities and development.
  • Chief Operating Officer – Supporting financial sustainability and development; business planning; working with funders; and providing outreach and relationship management.
  • Contributing editors – Providing advice; contributing to social journalism activities and development; outreach and engagement.

Editorial

Dr Melissa Sweet

Editor-in-Chief

Alison Barrett

Managing Editor

Marie McInerney

Editor
Jason Staines

Jason Staines

Editor
Dr Ruth Armstrong

Dr Ruth Armstrong

Editor

Dr Amy Coopes

Editor

Meera Senthilingham

Editor

Graphic design &
web development

Business development​

Mitchell Ward

Mitchell Ward

Creative Director & Web Developer

Larissa Andrews

Strategy & Sustainability

David Morgan

Chief Operating Officer

Kelly Dargan

Croakey Professional Services Consultant

Contributing editors

Dr Summer May Finlay

Contributing Editor

Dr Lesley Russell

Contributing Editor

Dr Tess Ryan

Contributing Editor
Tim Senior

Dr Tim Senior

Contributing Editor

Dr Megan Williams

Contributing Editor

Dr Mark Ragg

Contributing Editor

Peter McInnes

Contributing Editor

Jennifer Doggett

Secretary of CHM members

Linda Doherty

Contributing Editor

Cate Carrigan

Contributing Editor

Croakey Conference News Service

Journalists and others who have contributed to this service include:

  • Dr Ruth Armstrong
  • Alison Barrett
  • Annie Blatchford
  • Rosemary Cadden
  • H. Clare Callow
  • Cate Carrigan
  • Mardi Chapman
  • Dr Amy Coopes
  • Jennifer Doggett
  • Dr Summer May Finlay
  • Matthew Giles
  • Nicole MacKee
  • Marie McInerney
  • Marge Overs
  • Dr Lesley Russell
  • Dr Tess Ryan
  • Meera Senthilingham
  • Dr Sarah Simons
  • Jason Staines
  • Dr Melissa Sweet
  • John Thompson-Mills
  • Mitchell Ward
  • Karen Wyld

We also thank and acknowledge others who have contributed to Croakey, including:

El Gibbs, Nicole MacKee, Kelly Briggs, Dr Justin Coleman, Dr Lynore Geia, Fronscesca Jackson-Webb, Dr Melissa Stoneham, Michelle Hughes, and The Health Wrap contributors Kellie Bisset, Ellice Mol, Megan Howe, Helen Signy, Barry Dunning, Frances Gilham.

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The details of each tier can be found here and a list of current consortium members can be found here.

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What people say about Croakey

Croakey Health Media has been a valuable partner of the Global Health program at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney, for the last few years. I greatly appreciate Croakey’s contribution to our educational program and the efforts to inspire and engage youth to improve health systems.

With Dr Melissa Sweet’s outstanding supervision, our students have contributed to various media projects on the pressing issues facing Australian society, such as the climate and health dialogue before the 2022 Federal Election, and climate and housing issues for people with mental health. I can see that addressing health inequity is a clear focus of Croakey’s.

The coverage of Indigenous voices in climate and health conversations at Croakey is notably much stronger than the other mainstream media. I would be more hopeful of achieving a sustainable health future for all if we had more health media like Croakey.

Associate Professor Ying Zhang
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Dr Melissa Sweet

Melissa Sweet is a public health journalist and Editor in Chief of Croakey Health Media. She has been covering health matters for more than 30 years. She founded Croakey and @WePublicHealth. Melissa was a founding member and chair of the Public Interest Journalism Foundation (no longer in operation). She is the author or co-author of several books, including Inside MadnessThe Big Fat ConspiracyTen Questions You Must Ask Your Doctor, and Smart Health Choices (free). Before turning to a freelance career in the late 1990s, she covered health and medicine for the Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Associated Press. She has an honorary appointment as senior lecturer in the Sydney School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, and completed a PhD at the University of Canberra in 2017. She is a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists (US-based), the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, and the Australasian Medical Writers Association. Read more here. 

COI declaration: Melissa does occasional writing/consultancy projects for Dr Janine Mohamed (since 2017) and the Lowitja Institute (since 2019). Previously, she has provided writing and/or consultancy services to the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM) (until 2019), the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (until 2017) , and the Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention (in 2019).

Her PhD supervisors at the University of Canberra (completed in 2017) were Associate Professor Kerry McCallum, Professor Matthew Ricketson and Dr Kate Holland, as well as Professor Pat Dudgeon at the University of Western Australia, and Dr Lynore Geia from James Cook University. Members of her PhD advisory committee were: Associate Research Professor Alwin Chong from the University of South Australia; Kathleen Musulin from Carnarvon; Richard Weston from the Healing Foundation; and Renee Williams from Cairns.

Alison Barrett

Alison Barrett is managing editor (part-time) of Croakey Health Media and reports for the Croakey Conference News Service. Before working as a freelance writer and editor, she worked in health promotion and public health research.

She completed a Masters by Research at the University of South Australia in 2021 and is a member of the Australian Health Promotion Association.

Marie McInerney

Marie McInerney is an editor at Croakey and reports for the Croakey Conference News Service. She also contributes to various projects, including #JustJustice and #CripCroakey. She is a freelance journalist for a range of publications, including Croakey, BBC Australia, Thomson Reuters, the British Medical Journal, the Saturday Paper and Text Pacific publications, including the HCF member magazine. She is a member of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance and a former Board Member of ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) Australia. She has previously worked as a tutor on writing and journalism at RMIT.

COI declaration: Marie has received fees and travel related expenses for attending a number of conferences and events on behalf of the Croakey Conference News Service. Marie does freelance/casual work for not-for-profit organisations, including writing and editing reports and other communications. Current clients include Lowitja Institute (since 2020), Mental Health Victoria (since 2018), and Council to Homeless Persons (CHP) (since 2017). Other clients in the past five years have included the Victorian Council of Social Service (VCOSS), Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM), Women with Disabilities Victoria,  Victoria’s Commission for Children and Young People and ICAN.

Dr Ruth Armstrong

Ruth is an editor at Croakey and also the Croakey Books Editor. She reports for the Croakey Conference News Service, and offers medical storytelling workshops as part of the Croakey suite of professional services. With a background in general practice, she worked from 1997-2015 on the editorial team of the Medical Journal of Australia. Her long career at the MJA included working as Indigenous Health Editor, and undertaking special projects such as MJA books, supplements and theme issues. From 2011-2015 Ruth was the Medical Editor of, and weekly columnist for, the MJA’s online newsletter, MJA InSight. She has a passion for written communication of all kinds. From the poetical brevity of Twitter to the turgid tomes of academia, what we write, and the way we write it, has the power to inform, to persuade and to influence.

Dr Amy Coopes

Dr Amy Coopes is an editor for Croakey and also reports for the Croakey Conference News Service. She is a seasoned reporter with more than a decade’s experience in news, including several years as Australia correspondent for Agence France Presse. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Communications — Journalism) and Master of Arts (Creative Writing). After freelancing her way through medical school — contributing to the BMJ, The Saturday Paper, Guardian Australia, Fairfax and guesting regularly on ABC’s The Drum and RN Drive — she graduated with a Bachelor of Medical Studies/Doctor of Medicine in 2020 and is currently a junior medical officer with the Victorian Rural Generalist Program, based in North East Victoria.

COI statement: Amy studied Medicine on a Department of Health scholarship and was also a John Flynn scholar with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine, based in the Northern Territory. She travelled to the Northern Territory on a bursary from the UNSW Rural and Allied Health and Medical Students society and through the NT Rural High School Visits program, a workforce initiative of Health Network Northern Territory. She does occasional paid writing and editing work in the government and university sectors for clients including VicHealth, the University of Tasmania and the University of New South Wales.

Meera Senthilingam

Meera is a global health journalist, author and editor with experience in digital, radio, TV and print journalism. She is currently a Health Editor for CNN International, health journalism trainer and mentor with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, and global health communications consultant for the UKAID funded Ascend NTD programme with Crown Agents. Meera also writes for The British Medical Journal.

Her book ‘Outbreaks and Epidemics: Battling infection from measles to coronavirus’ is out now and available worldwide in five languages and as an audiobook, published by Icon books. The Guardian named it one of the best five science books of 2020 and it has been long listed for the BSHS Hughes Prize.

Mitchell Ward

Mitchell is the creative director and website developer for Croakey. He is also principal of Rock Lily Design, and has vast experience in graphic design and web development across a multiple of industries including multinational companies, small boutique businesses, not-for-profit organisations, government and non government organisations and academia. Mitchell has creative skills in both website development, photography and videography and is a keen musician and artist.

David Morgan

For over 35 years David has worked in the not-for-profit and community sectors as a senior executive, primarily with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations.

His most recent fulltime position was Chief Executive Officer with Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal community controlled entity providing comprehensive primary healthcare services to Aboriginal people living in Gippsland, Victoria.

David has also worked in local government as Chief Executive Officer of the Arnhem Land based Milingimbi Council and as the Director of Finance for Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation in Maningrida.

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Kelly Dargan

Kelly Dargan has a broad population health background, a ‘generalist’, with a focus on health policy, advocacy and stakeholder relations.
Having being born and raised on Wiradjuri country in Western NSW, the origins of Kelly’s career were naturally in rural health and she gathered wonderful experiences at the grassroots level before moving in to the policy work at state and federal levels. Since then Kelly has followed broader interests in health and social policy to all sorts of places – medical college land (RACGP and RANZCR), global health with WHO, state and federal health department roles, private sector consulting and freelancing on a wide range of projects in health, social housing and youth justice to name a few.

For the past five years or so, Kelly has moved into organisational strategy, advocacy and government relations consulting and is now focused on helping organisations in health and social sectors work constructively with government on policy and solutions for complex problems. These organisations do such important work in our society, but unfortunately they often have limited resources to support effective government engagement and advocacy activities. Kelly’s goal is to create a more accessible way for these organisations to access to high-level government relations and advocacy expertise and support, so that they can amplify their voices and those of the communities they serve.

Kelly was introduced to Croakey by Jennifer Doggett, a colleague, mentor and friend, and has for several years been able to stay across developments in health and social sectors thanks to the comprehensive coverage by the Croakey team.

Dr Summer May Finlay

Dr Summer May Finlay (CSCA, TAE, BSocSC MPHA, and PhD) is a Yorta Yorta woman who grew up on Awabakal country (West Lake Macquarie). Summer has extensive experience in social marketing, social media, communications and Aboriginal health research and policy. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow on a NHMRC funded project with University of Canberra and is a lecturer at the University of Wollongong. She currently works as a freelancer for Croakey Health Media in a number of capacities, including as a contributing editor, and formally as a member of the #IHMayDay, #JustJustice and #JustClimate projects.

Summer has also worked in a variety of capacities with a range of organisations across the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Sector, not-for profit, university and for profit sectors. Summer occupies position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Vice President for the Public Health Association of Australia and was previously the Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Special Interest Group Co-Convener. She is also Co-Chair of the international Indigenous movement #IndigenousNCDs, Co-Vice Chair of the World Federation of Public Health Associations Indigenous Working Group and Board member of Thirrili.

Dr Lesley Russell

Dr Lesley Russell is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) at the University of Sydney. She is a contributing editor at Croakey, and also began contributing the regular Health Wrap column in early 2018. Her research interests include healthcare reform in Australia and the US, mental health, Indigenous health, addressing health disparities and health budget issues; her policy papers and annual budget analyses are available on the University of Sydney e-scholarship website. Lesley was previously a Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute at the Australian National University. She has a PhD in biochemistry from the John Curtin School of Medical Research at ANU. Lesley has substantial experience working in health policy in the US and Australia, both in and out of government. In 2009-12 she worked in Washington DC on a range of issues around the enactment and implementation of President Obama’s health care reforms, initially as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for American Progress and later as a Senior Advisor to the US Surgeon General, Dr Regina Benjamin, in the Department of Health and Human Services. From 2007-2010 she was the inaugural Menzies Foundation Fellow at the MCHP and a Research Associate at the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Prior to that she was a health policy advisor to the Federal Australian Labor Party, working for Simon Crean when he was Leader of the Opposition and then Julia Gillard when she was Shadow Minister for Health. She worked for seven years (1984-1991) as health policy advisor to Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee in the US House of Representatives. Lesley is a keen skier (with a home on the slopes in Keystone Colorado) and hiker and a regular contributor to CroakeyGO.

COI statement: Lesley writes regularly for Inside Story and receives compensation for these articles. She undertakes occasional consultancy work, most recently for Oxfam Australia, Probity Australia, and the federal Department of Health. In the past she has worked as an employee or consultant for several pharmaceutical companies, including MSD Australia, CSL and Teva. She continues to provide policy advice to the ALP.

Dr Tess Ryan

Following an early career in government and community services, Tess completed a Communications and Media degree and was awarded the University of Canberra Medal in 2013 for her Honours thesis,  studying the push/pull indicators of Indigenous political engagement. She then completed a PhD at The University of Canberra focusing on Indigenous women’s leadership in Australia, and held a Post-Doctoral position with The Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at The University of Melbourne, which involved the facilitation of a leadership program with Kings College, London, research collection and data dissemination regarding Indigenous health.

Tess’s multi-disciplinary work involves Indigenous women, media representation, Indigenous research, leadership and diversity. She currently hold multiple roles with The Australian Catholic University in curriculum development/Academic advisory and building an Indigenous HDR strategy. She also works with Croakey Health Media writing stories relating to health and social equity and hosting their various events on Twitter, and  former President of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association. 

Dr Tim Senior

Tim is a GP who works in Aboriginal health, and who crowdfunded the Wonky Health columns at Croakey, investigating the impacts of policies upon health. He is a contributing editor at Croakey, and also a contributor to the #JustJustice project. He has his own blog, and won the inaugural Gavin Mooney Memorial Essay Competition, writing about climate change and equity.

Dr Megan Williams

Megan Williams is Wiradjuri through paternal family and has worked for two decades to advocate for the use of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s expertise in program design and evaluation, research, ethics and university curriculum, especially to improve access to health care for people in prison and prevent reincarceration. Megan is Head of Girra Maa, the Indigenous Health Discipline in the School of Public Health, Faculty of Health at UTS. Previously, Megan was Research Lead at the University of Sydney’s National Centre for Cultural Competence. Megan has MRFF, NHMRC, government and industry funds for research, and has local and national roles including as Chair of the Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network Human Research Ethics Committee, member of the AIHW National Prisoner Health Information Committee, member of the Corrective Services NSW Aboriginal Advisory Council and an Associate Editor of Health Sociology Review. Megan has been miimi (sister) of Mibbinbah community organisation for over 10 years, is a new board member of Deadly Connections and is Chair of Croakey Health Media,