Host of the Health Report, on ABC Radio National, and Tonic on ABC Television (News24), Norman Swan was born in Scotland, graduated in medicine from the University of Aberdeen and later obtained his postgraduate qualifications in Paediatrics.
Norman has been Australian Radio Producer of the Year, received a Gold Citation in the United Nations Media Peace Prizes, has won three Walkley National Awards for Australian journalism and Australia's top prize for Science Journalism, the Michael Daly Award, twice. In 2004 he was awarded the Medal of the Australian Academy of Science, and the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow made him a Fellow. In 2006 he was given a Doctorate of Medicine Hon Causa by the University of Sydney during its medical school’s 150th anniversary.
Norman is a guest host on Late Night Live and Radio National’s news and current affairs Breakfast programme, Saturday Extra. He also edits his own newsletter, The Choice Health Reader, which is published in partnership with CHOICE. Norman Swan has been the Australian correspondent for the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal and consults for the World Health Organisation in Geneva.