Prof Binns graduated in Medicine from the University of Western Australia and worked for several years in hospitals in Perth before going to work as a medical doctor in Papua New Guinea for eight years. In PNG he became very interested in nutrition and received a scholarship to complete a MPH degree at Harvard. He returned to Perth and was appointed foundation Head of the School of Public Healt...

www.thelancet.com Vol 381 January 26, 2013 285 Thomas LaVeist tells me that it was a “somewhat embarrassing story” that explained how he eventually became one of the leading academics in the fi eld of health and racial disparities in the USA. It was 1988 and he was at the University of Michigan working on his dissertation, which examined whether the political gains and election of African-Ameri...

When Doctor Payne honored me with an invitation to deliver the CharlesEdward Amory Winslow Lecture, I realized that I would be able to choose a subject from "an embarrassment of riches" in the contributions of Professor Winslow to the health of Man. I use here the title with which his students of a generation ago still revere his memory and signify the affection he inspired in them. He was to t...

William ‘Bud’ Abbott (1931-2011) was one of the pioneers of Health informatics in the United Kingdom and Europe. Abbott was one of the first generation of health informaticians in Europe. He and his colleagues at the time probably would not have used the term Health/Medical Informatics, because that term first used by Peter Leo Reichertz in Hannover in 1973. Abbott’s death brings to an end an e...

Abstract The US Army war crimes trials held in Manila from 1945 to 1947 prosecuted around 200 Japanese military personnel for committed against prisoners of and Filipino non-combatants. defendants attempted argue, with little success, that the defence superior orders justified their actions. General Douglas MacArthur (Supreme Commander Allies Pacific or SCAP) was adamant would not serve excuse ...

Dr. Uriel García Cáceres, prominent physician, researcher and Peruvian historian, was born in the city of Cusco in 1922. He studied medicine at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (1942-1950). He was influenced by Dr. Pedro Weiss and as a result he worked in the field of Pathological Anatomy, where he made substantial discoveries such as the description of kidney nodules associated with th...

Luka Kovacic Luka, MD, PhD, passed away in Zagreb on April 21st, 2015. He was specialist in Social medicine and organization of health care. Luka Kovacic graduated from the School of Medicine in Zagreb in the year 1965, and after a few years of medical practice he joined the Andrija Štampar School of Public Health in Zagreb. He earned both, MSc and PhD degree from the University of Zagreb Schoo...