Biographical entry Reid, Janice Clare (Jan) (1947 - )

Summary

Jan Reid's areas of research interest include medical anthropology in the field of indigenous and refugee health and health care, occupational and mental health. In 1998 she was appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to cross-cultural public health and the development of health services to socio-economically disadvantaged groups in the community.

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1966 - 1968

Career position - Research Assistant at the Australian Mineral Development Laboratories, South Australia

1968

Career position - Tutor in the Department of Geology at the University of Adelaide

1968 - 1969

Career position - High School Teacher in Papua New Guinea

1971

Career position - Teaching Assistant at Stamford University, USA

1972

Career position - Graduate Research Assistant at Stamford University, USA

1974 - 1975

Career position - Research Officer/Assistant in the Department of Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales (UNSW)

1976 - 1978

Career position - Programme Co-ordinator at the University of New South Wales (UNSW)

1978 - 1979

Career position - Lecturer in the Department of Behavioural and Genetic Studies at the University of Sydney

1979 - 1990

Career position - Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at the University of Sydney

1984

Award - Wellcome Medal received from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

1987 - 1991

Career position - Foundation Head of the School of Community Health at the University of Sydney

1988 - 1992

Career position - Director of the Centre of Crosscultural Studies, Health and Medicine at the University of Sydney

1990 - 1991

Career position - Professor of Community Health at the University of Sydney

1991 - 1998

Career position - Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at Queensland University of Technology

1992 - 1996

Career position - Chair or member of various National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Standing Committees

1994 - 1997

Career position - Deputy Chair of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research

1995 - 2001

Career position - Chair of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

1998 -

Career position - Vice-Chancellor an University President at the University of Western Sydney

1998

Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM)

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Biographical cuttings on Janice Reid, anthropologist, Cuttings Files BIOG; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Edited Books

• Reid, Janice and Trompf, Peggy (eds), The Health of Immigrant Australia: a Social Perspective, D. F. Branagan, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Sydney, 1990, 407 pp. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Reid, Janice', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-630934. Details

See also

• Herd, Margaret (ed.), Who's Who in Australia 2002, 38 edn, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2001, 2020 pp. Details