Person
Leggat, Peter Adrian (1961 - 2023)
AM
- Born
- 2 December 1961
- Died
- 20 September 2023
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Medical scientist and University Administrator
Summary
Peter Leggat was a medical scientist whose specialty was tropical and travel medicine. After graduating in medicine from the University of Queensland, he joined the Australian Army in 1987. He served overseas in Thailand and in Timor, ultimately achieving the rank of Colonel. Having joined the James Cook University in 1992 Leggat was promoted to Professor in 2007. He was noted for his leadership and as a generous and engaging teacher and mentor. At the University he was Associate Dean of his faculty, a member of the Council and the Academic Board, and Director of the Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Leggat was a founding member of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine, serving five terms as President and in other executive roles. He was instrumental in establishing the College's journal, Tropical medicine and infectious disease, of which he was deputy editor for some years. Leggat was engaged widely in organisations in his fields of interest. Within Australia these were, among others, the Australian Military Medicine Association and St John Ambulance Queensland. International organisations in which he played leading roles included the International Society of Travel Medicine and the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Vector-borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases. Leggat's publications output was over 500 papers, books, and book chapters.
Details
Chronology
- 1989 - 1999
- Career position - Member, Board of Directors, World Safety Organisation
- 1991
- Career position - Foundation Member, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
- 1991 - 1996
- Career position - Honorary Secretary, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
- 1992 - 1998
- Career position - Senior Lecturer, James Cook University
- 1992 - 2023
- Award - Fellow, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, United Kingdom
- 1993 - 1997
- Career position - Deputy Director-General, World Safety Organisation
- 1995
- Career position - Visiting Professor, Dentistry, Prince of Sonqkla University, Thailand
- 1995 - 1997
- Career position - Associate Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, James Cook University
- 1995 - 2023
- Award - Fellow, Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- 1996 - 1998
- Career position - President, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
- 1997 - 1999
- Career position - President/Director-General, World Safety Organisation
- 1999 -
- Career position - Deputy Director of Training, St John Ambulance Queensland
- 1999 - 2000
- Career position - Honorary Secretary, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
- 1999 - 2006
- Career position - Associate Professor, James Cook University
- 2000
- Career position - Visiting Professor, Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2000 - 2004
- Career position - Member of Committee (ex officio), South African Society of Travel Medicine
- 2000 - 2008
- Career position - Regional Medical Officer, St John Ambulance Queensland
- 2002
- Award - Fulbright Scholarship
- 2002 - 2004
- Career position - President, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
- 2003 - ?
- Career position - Member, Board of Directors, World Safety Organisation
- 2003 - 2005
- Career position - Member, Executive Board, International Society of Travel Medicine
- 2005 - 2018
- Career position - Member of Council, James Cook University
- 2006 - 2008
- Career position - President, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
- 2006 - 2023
- Award - Fellow, Faculty of Travel Medicine, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow
- 2007 - 2023
- Career position - Professor, James Cook University
- 2008 -
- Career position - Associate Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Molecular Sciences, James Cook University
- 2008 - ?
- Career position - Honorary Treasurer, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
- 2008 - 2010
- Career position - State Medical Officer, St John Ambulance Queensland
- 2008 - 2011
- Career position - Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Journal of travel medicine
- 2009 - ?
- Career position - Member, Australian Military Medicine Association
- 2009 - 2013?
- Career position - Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of military and veteran's health
- 2010 -
- Career position - State Professional Officer, St John Ambulance Queensland
- 2010 - 2012
- Career position - Honorary Secretary, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
- 2011 - 2013
- Career position - Director, Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University
- 2011 - 2023
- Award - Fellowship through Distinction, Faculty of Public Health, Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom
- 2013 - ?
- Career position - Acting Head, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University
- 2013
- Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to medicine as a specialist in the fields of tropical and travel medicine
- 2013 - 2019
- Career position - Secretary-Treasurer, International Society of Travel Medicine
- 2016 - 2018
- Career position - President, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
- 2018 - 2023?
- Career position - Member, Academic Board, James Cook University
- 2019 - 2021
- Career position - President-elect, International Society of Travel Medicine
- 2020 - 2022
- Career position - President, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
- 2020 - 2023?
- Career position - Deputy Chair, Academic Board, James Cook University
- 2021
- Award - Knight of Grace of the Order of St John, St John Ambulance, Australia
- 2021 - 2023
- Career position - President, International Society of Travel Medicine
- September 2023
- Life event - Retired
Related entries
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Lau, Colleen and Frean, John, 'Remembering Prof Peter A. Leggat, AM, ADC (1961 - 2023)', Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 9 (2023), 28, https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed9020028. Details
- Ross, Mary and de Frey, Albie, 'Tribute to Professor Peter Adrian Leggat 1961 - 2023', Occupational health Southern Africa, 29 (4) (2023), 172, https://www.occhealth.co.za/_assets/articles/351/2454.pdf. Details
- Shaw, Marc, 'Peter A. Leggat (1961 - 2023)', Journal of travel medicine, 30 (8) (2023), 1-2, https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taad148. Details
Reviews
- Miles, John, Infectious Diseases: Colonising the Pacific? (1997)
Leggat, Peter A., Health and History, 5 (1), (2003), 143-144. Details - Heydon, Susan and Duffal, Stephen, Pharmacy at Otago: the First 50 Years: the School, the Profession and the People Dunedin (2013)
Leggat, Peter A., Health and History, 15 (2), (2013), 121-3. Details - Pearn, John H., A Doctor in the Garden: Australian Flora and the World of Medicine, Amphion Press, Royal Children's Hospital, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 2001, 497 pp.
Leggatt, Frances W.; and Leggatt, Peter A., Health and History, 4 (1), (2002), 116-118. Details
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Created: 3 June 2025