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Melissa Sweet is an Australian journalist and nonfiction writer. Formerly employed by The Sydney Morning Herald , The Bulletin magazine, and Australian Associated Press, she specialises in writing about human health and medicine. [1]
Melissa Sweet grew up in central Queensland. She enrolled in the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT, now Curtin University of Technology) in Perth and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and agriculture. She was awarded the WAIT Academic Staff Association Medal as the top graduating student of 1984. [2]
Sweet worked as a medical writer for the Australian Associated Press for six years starting in 1987, and later served as a senior account manager in healthcare for Hill and Knowlton, a public relations firm, from 1993 to 1994. She returned to journalism in 1994, working as a medical writer for the Sydney Morning Herald and a columnist for Good Weekend magazine until 1998. She was a columnist and feature writer for The Bulletin magazine until 2003. [3]
In 2002, Sweet joined the advisory committee to the Australian Law Reform Commission and Australian Health Ethics Committee joint inquiry into the protection of human genetic information.[ citation needed ]
Sweet has been a freelance journalist, with a regular column in the Adelaide Independent Weekly until 2005. She formerly ran Croakey, [4] a social journalism in health initiative, [5] and contributes to Australian Rural Doctor, Australian Doctor, Australian Worker , the British Medical Journal , The Medical Journal of Australia, Australian Prescriber , Australian Nursing Journal, and other professional publications. She co-founded YouComm News , an Australian open-source community journalism project, in 2010. [6] She had senior lecturer positions at the University of Sydney and University of Notre Dame.[ citation needed ]
The National Press Club awarded her the John Douglas Pringle Award in 2003. This included a travelling fellowship to the United Kingdom to research quality and safety in their healthcare service. In 2008, Sweet was awarded the Obesity Society Media Award. [7]
On completion of her PhD, Sweet was awarded the Parker Medal for most outstanding thesis for 2017 at Canberra University. [8]
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