DR STEPHEN BOYDEN

Dr Stephen Boyden , AM PhD BSc (Vet Sci) FAA FRSA: Biohistorian, co-convenor and founding member of the Nature and Society Forum.

After graduated in Veterinary Science in London in 1947 Dr Boyden worked at the University of Cambridge and the Rockefeller Institute in New York. He received his PhD in immunology from the University of Cambridge in 1951. After a year at the Pasteur Institute in Paris he took charge of the World Health Organization's Tuberculosis Immunisation Research Centre in Copenhagen. From 1960 he worked at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University in Canberra. From 1965 to his official retirement at the end of 1990 he engaged in research and writing in human ecology and human biohistory. In the early 1970s he initiated and directed the Hong Kong Human Ecology Program, which was the first comprehensive ecological study of a city. He was a UNESCO consultant to the Man in the Biosphere Program (1973-89) and leader of the Fundamental Questions Program at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, ANU (1988-90).






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