David Maclaren
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Biosecurity in Tropical Infectious Diseases
James Cook University
Australia
Biography
David is a public health researcher with two decades experience in addressing community health issues in remote areas of Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. His work focuses on understanding the complex interplay between biomedicine, health service provision and socio-cultural understandings of health.David is a public health researcher with two decades experience in addressing community health issues in remote areas of Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. His work focuses on understanding the complex interplay between biomedicine, health service provision and socio-cultural understandings of health.
Research Interest
Methods and global health, and is a founding member and leader of the ‘Responding to priority health challenges in Melanesia’ stream of the JCU Anton Breinl Research Centre for Health Systems Strengthening.
