Professor J N "Jerry" Morris

Jerry Morris and health services research in the USA.

system in the US. It was not easy! There were endless meetings with hospital administrators, their boards and lawyers, as well as with health officers and local politicians; most required in tense persuasion . Even the Vermont Medical Society paraded me with the charge of mounting a ‘communist plot’, and so forth . Before we could generate adequate data or attempt analyses, I was offered the jo...

Professor J H Peacock

Calculating health and social change: an essay on Jerry Morris and Late-modernist epidemiology.

black boxes to Chinese boxes and eco-epidemiology. Am J Public Health 1996;86:674–77. 58 McMichael AJ. Prisoners of the proximate: loosening the constraints on epidemiology in an age of change. Am J Epidemiol 1999;149:887–97. 59 Berkman L, Kawachi I (eds). Social Epidemiology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 60 Wilkinson R, Marmot M (eds). Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts, ...

Emeritus Professor Colin J Masters (1927–2012)

Colin Masters died on April 6 from cancer, after making outstanding and pioneering contributions to biochemistry and biotechnology in Australia and to the development of Griffith University in SE Queensland as a major research based university. Colin was born in Taihape, a small town on the north island of New Zealand. In his view, the rural setting was an ideal background for his early childho...

Tribute to Professor Anthony J. McMichael

Emeritus Professor A. J. "Tony" McMichael (1942-2014) was an internationally renowned and pioneering Australian academic and advocate in epidemiology, who was passionate about understanding the influences of the environment on human health. In an illustrious career spanning more than four decades, he made significant contributions to the scientific community and policy discourse-including groun...