John Dwyer

Professor John Dwyer AO, is an Immunologist, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at UNSW and for many years heavily involved in efforts to improve the delivery of healthcare in Australia. He was the founder of the Australian Healthcare Reform Alliance.

John's recent articles

Covid controversies continue to hinder our efforts to end a deadly pandemic - Part 1

The hindering of our efforts to control the spread of Covid-19

Where politics trumps public health

Political ambition demands we play the Covid Blame Game while Rome still burns

JOHN DWYER. Palmers Pills, all 32 million of them!

JOHN DWYER. Trump, Xi and the WHO.

JOHN DWYER. Questions we need answered before we can safely ease COVID-19 restrictions.

JOHN DWYER.Exploring COVID-19 controversies. Part Two.

JOHN DWYER. Exploring COVID-19 controversies. Part 1

JOHN DWYER. Health care professionals want a lockdown now.

Trump declares he is convinced we now have a drug to terminate the epidemic

JOHN DWYER. There is still a lot more that needs to be done to minimise harm in Australia from COVID-19.

JOHN DWYER. Understanding the public health imperatives required to minimise infection with the Corona virus. (Part Two).

JOHN DWYER. Understanding the public health imperatives required to minimise infections with the Corona virus. (Part One).

JOHN DWYER. Americans desperate thirst for affordable health care might just ensure they dont get it!

JOHN DWYER.The Opioid crisis should focus attention on the inadequacy of Primary Care in Australia.

JOHN DWYER. The lack of truth in Medicine and Science.

JOHN DWYER. What a mess! Insurance for health care, both public and private, is increasingly dysfunctional with sensible and equitable solutions held hostage by vested interests. PART TWO

JOHN DWYER. What a mess! Insurance for health care, both public and private, is increasingly dysfunctional with sensible and equitable solutions held hostage by vested interests. PART ONE

The barbaric nature of the human condition

JOHN DWYER Australia's opioid epidemic

JOHN DWYER. Another hard to believe example of the weakness of our regulators in protecting consumers from healthcare fraud.

JOHN DWYER -Failed regulation in health.

The crisis in Private Health Insurance arrangements in Australia is a symptom of our public health failures.

JOHN DWYER An open letter to Minister Greg Hunt

JOHN DWYER The "Canterbury Model" in health

JOHN DWYER. Politics and anti-science. Hunts patheticFlip-Flop on the use of Taxpayers dollars to pay for Alternative Medicine

JOHN DWYER - Will the health initiatives announced last week significantly and sustainably improve health care for Australians?

JOHN DWYER Chiropractic manipulation of infant's spine

JOHN DWYER. Health Reform's "Holy Grail";Medicare must fund the "team Medicine" approach to Primary Care.

JOHN DWYER. Labor unveils the health care reform initiatives to be pursued if elected.

JOHN DWYER. Health care reforms and the Federal election: A guide for voters

The extraordinary determination of China to have the world embrace its traditional medicine. (Part 3 of 3.)

JOHN DWYER. The extraordinary determination of China to have the world embrace its traditional medicine. (Part 2 of 3)

JOHN DWYER. The extraordinary determination of China to have the world embrace its Traditional Medicine. (Part one of three)

JOHN DWYER. How are we going to water the farm now that copious life sustaining rain is but a memory?

JOHN DWYER. Health care reform - Part 2.

JOHN DWYER. Health care reform - Part 1.

JOHN DWYER. Health Care Homes, set up to fail and doing so spectacularly.

Profit trumping professionalism! All too often the case in Australian pharmacies

JOHN DWYER. Poor oral health in Australia; a costly chronic problem getting worse and which current strategies have no chance of resolving.

JOHN DWYER. The curse of political mediocrity; The informed, bold, courageous policies that Australia needs in health are nowhere to be seen. (Part 3 of 3)

The curse of political mediocrity; The informed, bold, courageous policies that Australia needs in health are nowhere to be seen. (Part 2 of 3)

The curse of political mediocrity; the informed, bold, courageous policies that Australia needs in health are nowhere to be seen (Part 1 of 3).

JOHN DWYER. The devastating effects of Trumpism on science and medicine.

JOHN DWYER: When will we seriously tackle the Inequity associated with the delivery of health services to rural and remote Australians? Part 2 of 2.

JOHN DWYER: When will we seriously tackle the Inequity associated with the delivery of health services to rural and remote Australians? Part 1 of 2.

JOHN DWYER. The folly of looking at private health insurance as a single issue . Part 2 of2

JOHN DWYER. The folly of looking at private health insurance as a single issue rather than a policy failure .Part 1 of 2

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