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Born in 1937, to teacher parents, I was educated in Melbourne. I then moved to Adelaide where I completed my medical degree in 1960. After residencies in Adelaide I spent 10 years in Papua New Guinea as a consultant physician and consultant in public health. I undertook postgraduate studies at the universities of Liverpool, Edinburgh and Harvard, returning to Flinders University in 1975 as the Foundation Chair in Primary Care and Community Medicine. I pioneered extramural medical education in 4 universities and held consultancies with WHO, UNICEF, The World Bank, numerous NGOs and was Foundation Vice-President of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine. I established a course in International Health and Development at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and later at Flinders. I also worked as an emergency physician and spent 20 years as a rural locum GP in isolated South Australia.
My major interests have been in medical education, public health, organisation and evaluation of health services. I was involved in numerous community health activities especially in disadvantaged communities, in clinical medicine, especially infectious diseases and in medical writing.
I was awarded the Fred Katz Memorial Award for contributions to medical education and appointed Emeritus Professor in 1994. In 2019, I was awarded an AM for 'contributions to medicine, medical education and global health'.