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Prof Robyn Cosford

Robyn Cosford is a Professor of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine and retired functional medicine practitioner of nearly 40 years' clinical practice. Previously a researcher with the University of Newcastle into the metabolic abnormalities and gut microbiome profiles in CFS, ADHD and autism, her clinical work was largely focused on children's neurodevelopmental and behavioural disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, CFS and women's health issues. Since retiring her medical license in 2022, Robyn has focused on issues related to the Covid pandemic and vaccine side effects and has authored or co-authored 3 papers related to spike protein pathology, and lectured internationally on these and related issues.

NDIS Cost Blowout: What Is Actually Happening?

Prof Robyn Cosford

July 19, 2026

Economy, Health

The National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 is the most significant restructuring of the scheme since its institution on 1st July 2013. The Bill redefines the legal architecture of access, planning, reassessment, funding, governance and participant safeguards. While promoted to ensure sustainability, the

The real pandemic: Diabetes

Prof Robyn Cosford

January 12, 2024

Health, Science

Some 10 per cent of all deaths are attributed to diabetes. Diabetes is also well recognised as one of the major risk factors for severe Covid and Covid deaths but we heard nothing about this during the ’pandemic’.

Autism rises as the NDIS expands

Prof Robyn Cosford

June 6, 2023

Freedom, Health, Science

The data is very clear that the incidence of autism has risen dramatically since the 1980s. The seminal paper of Eric Fombonne (1999) placed the incidence prior to 1989 at 4/10,000 with a year-by-year increase to an average of 7.2/10,000 from 1989 to 1999. CDC data gives an incidence in