Catherine Hanrahan

Catherine Hanrahan is a health journalist and researcher. She has a PhD in immunology from The University of Melbourne and undertook post-doctoral research at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at Charing Cross Hospital in London. Catherine worked for a number of years in London as a medical writer. She was a reporter for Australian GP weekly Medical Observer for five years, reporting on mental health clinical and political issues, and continues to write two columns on mental health and diabetes for Medical Observer.
Catherine works as a freelance journalist and has published with the ABC, Global Mail and Reportage Online. She also works as a researcher for ABC Fact Check and as a producer for 2SER breakfast radio. She was a researcher on the Walkley award-nominated Changing Minds television documentary series with Dr Mark Cross, filmed in Liverpool Hospital’s mental health unit and screened on the ABC in 2014.