Stephen Leeder
About Stephen Leeder, AO
Stephen Leeder is a professor of public health and community medicine at the University of Sydney. He has a long history of involvement in public health research, educational development and policy. His research interests as a clinical epidemiologist have been mainly asthma and cardiovascular disease. His interest in public health was stimulated by spending 1968 in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
In 2003-04, Professor Leeder worked at Columbia University, New York, in the Earth Institute and Mailman School of Public Health, developing a substantial report, based on research data and scientific interpretation, of the economic consequences of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in developing economies. The report, A Race against Time: the challenge of cardiovascular disease in developing economies, concentrated upon the macroeconomic consequences of CVD, and especially on the fact that one-third of CVD deaths in many developing countries were occurring among people of working age.
Professor Leeder is currently Director of the Australian Health Policy Institute, an affiliated unit of the School of Public Health in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney. The Institute provides a high-level capability for authoritative, independent, non-partisan analysis of major health policy questions which confront Australian and international health systems. The Institute has four themes: equity; futures; serious and continuing illnesses and; governance. Extended Bio can be viewed at http://www.ahpi.health.usyd.edu.au/about/steve.php
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