Peter Curson
BA Auck; MA(Hons) Auck; PhD Tas
Professor
Room 466
H04 - Merewether Building
The Unviersity of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 4550
Fax: +61 2 9351 3624
Professor Peter Curson is a former Head of the School of Earth Sciences and Dean of the Division of Environmental and Life Sciences at Macquarie University. From 2001 until 2006 he was also Director of Macquarie University's Health Studies Program. A medical geographer with degrees from the Universities of Auckland and Tasmania, he has a background in population studies, demography, geography and public health.
The author/editor of seven books/monographs, including studies of plague, population and natural disasters, climate change and health, and health security, Professor Curson has a particular interest in population-health-environment interactions, epidemics of infectious disease and human behaviour, climate change and human health, and the population-health security linkage.
Professor Curson is a member of the National Consultative Group on Biosecurity Issues and the Egg Nutrition Advisory groups' Food Safety Task Force He is also a regular writer for the national media in Australia and New Zealand on population and health issues
Publications
2009
Magazine Article/s
Curson P and Phipps T 2009 'Migration Blues', The Diplomat, vol.8:2, pp. 18-21
Curson P 2009 'Bacteria at the Gates', Investigate , vol.9:103, pp. 50-3
Curson P 2009 'Population Futures', Investigate , vol.9:107
2008
Journal Article/s
Curson P 2008 'Smallpox Redux: An Australian Perspective', Security Challenges, vol.4:3, pp. 99-114
2006
Journal Article/s
Curson P 2006 'An Australian Perspective of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic', NSW Public Health Bulletin, vol.17:7-8
Curson P 2006 'The Geography of Pandemics', Geodate, vol.19:2
Conference Paper/s
Curson P 2006 'Pandemics, Panic, Bird Flu and the Globalisation of Fear, Keynote Address, IGU Commission on Health & the Environment Conference, Waiheke, New Zealand, 1st January 2006-31st December 2006
2005
Book Section/s
Curson P and McRandle B 2005 'Plague Anatomy: Health Security from Pandemics to Bioterrorism' in Australian Strategic Policy Institute Monograph, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Journal Article/s
Curson P 2005 'Outbreaks, Past, Present and Future', NSW Public Health Bulletin, vol.16:5
Curson P 2005 'Invisible Enemies: Infectious Disease and National Security', Strategic Insights Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Howitt R, McCracken K and Curson P 2005 'Australian Indigenous Health – What issues Contribute to a National Crisis and Scandal?', Geodate, vol.18:1
2004
Book Section/s
Curson P and Clarke L 2004 'Pathological Environments’' in Controversies in Environmental Sociology, ed. R.D. White, Cambridge University Press, pp. 238-256
2003
Book Section/s
Curson P and McCracken K 2003 'Flu Downunder: A Demographic and Geographic Analysis of the 1919 Pandemic in Sydney' in The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19, Routledge London, London, United Kingdom
Journal Article/s
Curson P 2003 'SARS, Australia and Global Health Security', What’s Next? Future Directions International, vol.June
Conference Paper/s
Curson P 2003 'Infectious Disease and National Security, Keynote Address, Military Health Conference, HMAS Penguin, 1st January 2003-31st December 2003