MELISSA FREQUENTLY APPEARS ON PANELS, DELIVERS GUEST LECTURES, AND GIVES KEYNOTE ADDRESSES.
Past events
Deakin University ‘My Life in Recovery’ event on the health harms of gambling, panelist - November 2024
Oceania Tobacco Control Conference, keynote speaker - October 2024
Australian Skeptics 2023 conference - panelist on journalistic reporting on pseudoscience and misinformation
Bendigo Writers Festival, 14 May, ‘The Messenger’, 6.30pm Capital Theatre - May 2022
La Trobe University Ideas and Society conference; The human crisis in Australia’s aged care homes, panel event - April 2022
Cochrane Institute, ‘Engaging the Evidence’ - Ivermectin; the good, the bad and the very ugly. 11 November 2021
Orygen mental health #chatsafe event; ‘Communicating safely with children and teens about suicide’ - 27 July 2021
Publication date - ‘The Case of George Pell’ - Scribe publications - August 2020
Royal Australasian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist conference on engaging with media and medical journalism - October 2019
St Vincent’s Sydney Health Network patient safety forum - 1 August 2019
DISRUPTED FESTIVAL - Perth, July 2019
Human Rights Arts and Film Festival
Melbourne University Open Justice Panel
GenVic Online Active Bystander Launch
Sydney Opera House ‘All About Women’ Festival
2017 Australasian Cochrane Symposium - Countering Quackery panel
Macleay College graduation, speech to journalism students, class of 2018