Health writer

11 Prince Edward Road,
Seaforth,
NSW 2092
Ph: 02 9948 7918
Fax: 02 9948 7918

E-mail: pgoodyer@bigpond.net.au

Skills and Services

• Writing features and news stories for magazines and newspapers
• Writing fact sheets and educational material on health for consumers
• Specialist in writing health material for non-English speakers in language suitable for translation
• Specialist in making complex health information easy to read
• Writing for the web
• Running workshops for health professionals on writing plain English health information for consumers.
• Editing

Subjects

Health, nutrition, fitness, mental health, relationships, parenting, adolescence, drugs and alcohol

Other information

• Walkley Award winner
• Joint winner 2001 Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Opthalmologists' Media Award
• Paula Goodyer's portfolio includes features for the Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday Life Magazine, Australian Women's Weekly, Cleo, Sydney's Child; consumer information for the NSW Health Department; consumer information for non-English speakers for the NSW Health's Multicultural Health Communication Service and its website; consumer booklets on mental health for SANE Australia.
• Author of BodyGuard (ABC Books, 2003) and Kids & Drugs (Allen and Unwin,
  1998)