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EnglishAACR2Anglo-American Cataloguing RulesPersoncreated2025-06-03humanHelen Cohnupdated2025-12-02humanhttps://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007732b.htmpersonLeggatPeter AdrianAMAACR22 December 196120 September 2023Place of DeathBrisbane, Queensland, AustraliaMedical scientistUniversity AdministratorPeter 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.19891999Career position - Member, Board of Directors, World Safety Organisation19911991Career position - Foundation Member, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine19911996Career position - Honorary Secretary, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine19921998Career position - Senior Lecturer, James Cook University19922023Award - Fellow, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, United Kingdom19931997Career position - Deputy Director-General, World Safety Organisation19951995Career position - Visiting Professor, Dentistry, Prince of Sonqkla University, Thailand19951997Career position - Associate Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, James Cook University19952023Award - Fellow, Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians19961998Career position - President, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine19971999Career position - President/Director-General, World Safety Organisation1999Career position - Deputy Director of Training, St John Ambulance Queensland19992000Career position - Honorary Secretary, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine19992006Career position - Associate Professor, James Cook University20002000Career position - Visiting Professor, Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa20002004Career position - Member of Committee (ex officio), South African Society of Travel Medicine20002008Career position - Regional Medical Officer, St John Ambulance Queensland20022002Award - Fulbright Scholarship20022004Career position - President, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine2003Career position - Member, Board of Directors, World Safety Organisation20032005Career position - Member, Executive Board, International Society of Travel Medicine20052018Career position - Member of Council, James Cook University20062008Career position - President, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine20062023Award - Fellow, Faculty of Travel Medicine, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow20072023Career position - Professor, James Cook University2008Career position - Associate Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Molecular Sciences, James Cook University2008Career position - Honorary Treasurer, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine20082010Career position - State Medical Officer, St John Ambulance Queensland20082011Career position - Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Journal of travel medicine2009Career position - Member, Australian Military Medicine Association20092013?Career position - Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of military and veteran's health2010Career position - State Professional Officer, St John Ambulance Queensland20102012Career position - Honorary Secretary, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine20112013Career position - Director, Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University20112023Award - Fellowship through Distinction, Faculty of Public Health, Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom2013Career position - Acting Head, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University20132013Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - for significant service to medicine as a specialist in the fields of tropical and travel medicine20132019Career position - Secretary-Treasurer, International Society of Travel Medicine20162018Career position - President, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine20182023?Career position - Member, Academic Board, James Cook University20192021Career position - President-elect, International Society of Travel Medicine20202022Career position - President, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine20202023?Career position - Deputy Chair, Academic Board, James Cook University20212021Award - Knight of Grace of the Order of St John, St John Ambulance, Australia20212023Career position - President, International Society of Travel MedicineSeptember 2023September 2023Life event - Retired
James Cook University (1998 - )
Professor 2007 - 2023; Member of Council 2005 - 2018
Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (1991 - )
'Leggat, Peter Adrian', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of TechnologyLeggat, Peter AdrianSwinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative InnovationEncyclopedia of Australian Science and InnovationReview: Health and HistoryLeggatt, Frances W.; and Leggatt, Peter A.2002Health and History41116-118Review: Health and HistoryLeggat, Peter A.2013Health and History152121-3Review: Health and HistoryLeggat, Peter A.2003Health and History51143-144Journal Article: Tribute to Professor Peter Adrian Leggat 1961 - 2023Ross, Mary and de Frey, AlbieTribute to Professor Peter Adrian Leggat 1961 - 20232023Occupational health Southern Africa294172Journal Article: Remembering Prof Peter A. Leggat, AM, ADC (1961 - 2023)Lau, Colleen and Frean, JohnRemembering Prof Peter A. Leggat, AM, ADC (1961 - 2023)2023Tropical medicine and infectious disease928Journal Article: Peter A. Leggat (1961 - 2023)Shaw, MarcPeter A. Leggat (1961 - 2023)2023Journal of travel medicine3081-2