Peter Curson
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SYSTEMS AND POPULATIONS
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Long University career in Population and Medical Geography at Universities of Auckland, Tasmania and Macquarie. Former Head of the School of Earth Sciences and Dean of Environmental Sciences at Macquarie University 1989- 2000. Co-Director of Commonwealth-Funded Climatic Impacts Centre at Macquarie 1989-99. Professor of Population and Security University of Sydney 2007-15. Currently Honorary Professor of Population and Security at Sydney University. Regular contributor to the Australian and NZ media on wide range of population and health topics. Made more than 120 radio programs and appeared on TV on numerous occasions. Helped write scripts for 7 major TV programs and appeared in recent film/documentary on Epidemics.
Research Interest
Historical and Medical Demography/Medical Geography with particular reference to epidemics and pandemics of infectious disease and human behaviour Climate change and human health Security demographics, population and disasters Population-health-environment interactions.
Publications
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Curson P, McCracken K. An Australian perspective of the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic. New South Wales public health bulletin. 2006;17(8):103-7.
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McCracken K, Curson P. Flu downunder: a demographic and geographic analysis of the 1919 epidemic in Sydney, Australia.
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Aplin G, Beggs P, Brierley G, Cleugh H, Curson P, Mitchell PB, Pitman A, Rich DC. Global environmental crises: an Australian perspective.
