My main area of work is on pharmaceutical policy, including the effects of pharmaceutical promotion on prescribing and medicine use.

I am best known for my work on the effects of direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines. My current research includes international comparative research on safety warnings on medicines in Canada, Australia, the U.S. and U.K.

I am with the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, a multi-disciplinary centre with a focus on obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, where I co-lead two research nodes on Pharmaceutical Policy and Evidence Synthesis. My previous position (to 2015) was with SPPH and the Therapeutics Initiative, at UBC.

I am co-author of the book, “Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals” with Ray Moynihan (Greystone Press, 2010), and have worked for many years with consumer and women’s health groups.