Edward Ford (physician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian soldier, academic and physician
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Place of Birth: Bethanga, Victoria, Australia
About Edward Ford (physician)
- Colonel Sir Edward Ford, (15 April 1902 – 27 August 1986) was an Australian soldier, academic and physician.
- He played an important role in the anti-malaria campaign in the South West Pacific Area during the Second World War, and in preventative medicine in Australia after the war, but is best known for his Bibliography of Australian Medicine. After the war, Ford wrote a thesis on malaria control in the South West Pacific, for which he was awarded his Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree by the University of Melbourne in 1946.
- He became Director of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at the University of Sydney in 1946, and Professor of Preventive Medicine in 1947, concurrently holding these two positions until his 1968 retirement.
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