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Professor Bob Douglas MBBS(Adel), MA(Penn), MD(Adel), FRACP, FRACGP, FAFPHM Current Position: Visiting Fellow Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 9940 F: +61 2 6125 0740

Research Interests

• Epidemiology, prevention and treatment of respiratory infections.

• The Cochrane Collaboration on evidence-based health care.

• The organisation, funding and evaluation of general practice in Australia, including approaches to information management.

• The epidemiology of wellbeing.

• Risk assessment of drinking water.

Selected Recent Publications

Eckersley R, Dixon J, Douglas R. The Social Origins of Health and Well-being. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001, pp347

Douglas RM. Electronic health records as essential building blocks for the Public Health Information System. In: Gavin Mooney and Aileen Plant (eds), Daring to Dream: The future of Australian health care, Black Swan Press, Bentley, 2001, pp 63-67.

Butler C, Douglas RM, McMichael AJ. Globalisation and environmental change: Implications for health and health inequalities. In: The Social Origins of Health and Well-Being. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001, pp 34-50.

Dixon J, Douglas R, Eckersley R. Making a difference to socio-economic determinants of health in Australia: A research and development strategy. Medical Journal of Australia 2000; 172: 541-544.

Douglas RM. Respiratory Infections as a Public Health Challenge. Clin. Infec. Dis.1999; 28(2):192-194.

Douglas RM, Chalker EB, Treacy B. Vitamin C for the common cold (Cochrane Review). In: The Cochrane Library, Issue 1, 1998. Oxford: Update Software.

Douglas RM, Sibthorpe BM. General practice stress. Med. J. Aust. 1998;169(3):126-127.

Douglas RM. Aluminium, Water and Alzheimer's Disease. Water. Sept/Oct 1996; 18-20,

Mathers C, Douglas R. Measuring Progress in Population Health and Well-being. in Measuring Progress. Is life getting better? Eckersley, R (Ed.) CSIRO Publishing, Australia, pp.125-155.