In April 2020 I led an international research group which aimed to understand characteristics and strategies employed by different countries to deal with COVID-19 from a PHC perspective to determine:

• Factors most associated with national mortality rates during the pandemic period to date
• Lessons to better address both current and future pandemics

We have published 4 papers from this study:

I was very fortunate to be invited to present the keynote speech at the WONCA Asia Pacific Conference in Kyoto, Japan. We travelled there in May 2019

Edited by Felicity Goodyear-Smith and Bob Mash, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, London, UK. pp330

In 2022 the authorised Japanese translation was published by Nanzando Co Ltd (Tokyo, Japan).

The book can be purchased from https://www.routledge.com/How-To-Do-Primary-Care-Research/Goodyear-Smith-Mash/p/book/9781138499584

In October 2018 I was invited to the Gold Coast, Australia to give the keynote address at the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners GP18 Conference.

My talk was entitled ‘Looking inside WONCA’s chocolate factory: how research should be ‘made’

I August 2017 I was honoured to receive the Australasian Association of Academic Primary Care Charles Bridge-Webb award. This was in recognition of ‘an outstanding career in academic primary care’.

I am a featured doctor in the WONCA Global Family Doctor, August 2016:
WONCA Featured doctor