Person
Black, Robert Hughes (1917 - 1988)
- Born
- 20 December 1917
Willaura, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 17 March 1988
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Medical scientist
Summary
Robert Black was Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Sydney from 1963 to 1982. He also worked at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (1946-1948) before joining the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Sydney in 1951. Black also worked as a consultant physician at St Vincent's Hospital, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Prince Henry's Hospital. He was educated at the Universities of Sydney (MB, BS) and Liverpool (Dip. Tropical Medicine and Health, ED, MD, Dip Anth) and served as a captain and physician with the Australian Army Medical Corps during World War II. Black was Australia's leading researcher into malaria from the 1950s to the 1970s and as advisor to the Australian Army was instrumental in the establishment of the Army's renowned malaria research facility. He participated in international malaria surveillance programs particularly for the WHO and the South Pacific Commission.
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Chronology
- 1939
- Education - MB BS, University of Sydney
- 1940
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
- 1941
- Career position - Senior Resident, Innisfail Hospital, Queensland
- 1941 - 1942
- Career position - Served with the Australian Army Medical Corps and the Australian Imperial Forces
- 1943 - 1946
- Career position - Medical Scientist at LHQ Medical Research Unit in Cairns, Queensland
- 1946
- Career position - Bacteriologist, Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney
- 1947
- Education - MD, University of Sydney
- 1947 - 1948
- Career position - UK Medical Research Council Fellow at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
- 1948
- Education - Diploma in Tropical Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
- 1949 - 1951
- Career position - Medical Officer, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney
- 1951 - 1955
- Career position - Lecturer, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney
- 1955 - 1963
- Career position - Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney
- 1959 - 1979
- Career position - Advisor on malaria to the Australian Army
- 1963
- Education - Diploma of Anthropology, University of Sydney
- 1963 - 1982
- Career position - Professor of Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney
- 1965 - 1988
- Award - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- 1982
- Life event - Retired
- 1986
- Award - Darling Prize and Medal for Malaria, World Health Organisation
Related entries
Archival resources
Private hands (Black, R.H.)
- Robert Hughes Black - Records, 1917 - 1988; Private hands (Black, R.H.). Details
Published resources
Books
- Howie-Willis, Ian, An unending war: the Australian Army's struggle against malaria 1885 - 2015 (Newport (N.S.W.): Big Sky Publishing, 2016), 348 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Cossart, Yvonne, 'Black, Robert Hughes (1917-1988), Professor of Tropical Medicine' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 17: 1981 - 1990 A-K, Diane Langmore, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007), pp. 107-108. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/black-robert-hughes-12217. Details
Journal Articles
- Howie-Willis, Ian, '"A near-run thing": the foundation and early years of 1 Malaria Research Laboratory, forerunner of the Australian Army Malaria Institute, 1963 - 1969 (part 4 of "Pioneers of Australian military malariology")', Journal of Military and Veterans' History, 25 (2) (2017), 69-84. Details
- Sharp, Peter, 'Robert Hughes Black', Medical Journal of Australia, 151 (1989), 171-2. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24087697. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/67452461. Details
- 'Black, Robert H (19171220-19880317)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-444708. Details
See also
- Spencer, Margaret, Malaria: the Australian Experience, 1843-1991 (Townsville: Australian College of Tropical Medicine, 1994), 213 pp. Details
Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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