CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: John Murray LAST
Address: Home: 300 Queen Elizabeth Drive, Apt 11A Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 3M6 Telephone: (613) 233 4859
Office: Health Sciences Centre, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8M5 Telephone: (613) 562 5800 Ext. 8285 or (613) 562 5410 Fax: (613) 562 5465 e-mail: [email protected]
CURRENT ACADEMIC STATUS
Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology & Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, since July 1992
EDUCATION, ACADEMIC DEGREES, LICENSURE
University of Adelaide Medical School, 1944-49 M.B., B.S., 1949 M.D., 1968, for thesis on "Quality of General Practice"
School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Univ. Sydney D.P.H., 1960
Registered medical practitioner, South Australia, 1949
Registered, General Medical Council (Great Britain) 1951
ECFMG Certification (USA) 1963
Ontario College of Physicians & Surgeons, Reg. # 41406, 1969 (Retired, 1993)
SPECIALTY QUALIFICATIONS
1969: Admitted to Membership, Royal Australasian College of Physicians; MRACP 1969, FRACP 1973
1980: Board certified, general preventive medicine, American Board of Preventive Medicine; admitted to FACPM
1981: Foundation Fellow, American College of Epidemiology; FACE
1982: Admitted to Faculty of Community Medicine, now Faculty of Public Health, Royal Colleges of Physicians (UK) FFCM, now FFPH (K).
1987: Admitted to Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as a medical scientist; FRCPC
1990: Admitted to Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians; FAFPHM
SCHOLARSHIPS, HONOURS AND AWARDS
Government Bursary Scholar, South Australia, 1944-49
Travelling Fellow, Australian Postgraduate Medical Federation, 1961-62
Tasmania Prize, Royal Australian College General Practitioners, 1966
Distinguished Service Award, American College of Preventive Medicine, 1984
Honorary Fellowship, Ontario Public Health Association, 1988
University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1988
Wade Hampton Frost Lecturer, Epidemiology Section, American Public Health Association, 1989
University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine Award of Excellence, 1990
Special Recognition Award, American College of Preventive Medicine, 1991
Keynote Orator, Japanese Public Health Association, 1991
Visiting scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy) 1992
M.D. Honoris Causa, Uppsala University, Sweden, 1993
Honorary life member, International Epidemiological Association, 1993
Duncan Clark Award for lifetime achievement in preventive medicine Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine, 1994
Abraham M Lilienfeld Award, American College of Epidemiology, 1997 (for lifetime achievement in epidemiology)
Honorary life member, American College of Epidemiology, 1998
Honorary life member, British Medical Association, 2000
M.D. Honoris Causa, University of Edinburgh, 2003
Honorary Life Member, American Public Health Association 2004
Defries Award, Canadian Public Health Association, 2006 (CPHA’s highest honor)
RECENT EXTRAMURAL ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
External Assessor, University of Malaysia, 1989-92
Visiting professor of epidemiology and external examiner, Kuwait University Faculty of Medicine, 1990
External Assessor, United Arab Emirate University, 1990-93
External assessor, Universities of Adelaide and Western Australia 1994-96
Visiting professor, University of Edinburgh, 2002
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
Editor for WHO of papers on ‘Sustainable development and health’ for the UN Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg Summit, September 2002)
Editorial advisor, Aboriginal AIDS Network, and Canadian AIDS Society, to prepare a glossary of epidemiological and related terms used in HIV/AIDS surveillance, 1999-2000
Consultant on ‘medical’ and ‘health’ terminology, New Oxford American Dictionary, 1999-2001 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Member Configuration Control Board and Editorial Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, 1996-9; Theme editor, AHealth@ sections, 1998- 99 (Paris and Oxford UK: UNESCO and EOLSS, 2001)
Co-editor, Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine, 1998-2001 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Editor (epidemiology, public health) Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 26th Edn, 1991-5; th 27th Edn, 1996-1999 (published 2000); 28 Edn 2000-2004 (Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005)
Editor-in-chief, Public Health and Preventive Medicine ("Maxcy-Rosenau-Last"), 11th th Edn, 1980, 12th Edn, 1985, 13th Edn, 1991; Editor-emeritus 14 Edn (New York: McGraw Hill & Co, 1998)
th Editor, A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 1st Edn, 1983, 2nd Edn, 1987, 3rd Edn, 1995, 4 Edn, 2000 (New York: Oxford University Press)
Associate editor, An Encyclopedia of Public Health (New York: Macmillan 2001)
Scientific Editor, Canadian Journal of Public Health, 1981-91
Associate Editor, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 1984-92; member of governing board 1984-92; Acting interim editor, 1989-90; member of Editorial Board, 1984-92, 1995-99
Editor, Annals of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, 1990-97
Member Editorial Board, Health & Environment Digest, 1990-97
Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Epidemiology, 1987-1990
Member of Editorial Board, Synergy (Journal of Canadian Society for International Health), 1987-96
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Ecosystem Health, 1993-1998
Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Health Services, 1970-75
Faculty of Medicine representative, University of Edinburgh Press Committee, 1966- 1969
Member, editorial board, A Companion to Medical Studies Edinburgh and Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, Vol. 1 1968, Vol. 2 1970, Vol. 3 1974; editor "Community Medicine" sections throughout.
ACTIVITIES IN BIOMEDICAL ETHICS
Coordinator and editor, International Epidemiological Association initiative on ethics guidelines for epidemiologists, 1987-93
Member ethics review committee, International Development Research Centre, 1989-92
External ethics reviewer, Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, 1989-96
Convener, International Conference on Ethics, Health Policy and Epidemiology, at 12th International Scientific Conference of the IEA, Los Angeles, August 1990
Member of CIOMS Working Group preparing Guidelines on Ethics for Epidemiological Research, 1990-3; co-chairman of XXVth CIOMS Conference (on Development of Guidelines for Ethical Review of Epidemiological Studies), Geneva, November 1990; member of CIOMS Working Group to revise 1982 Guidelines for ethical review of research on human subjects.
Member, Biomedical Ethics Committee, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, 1990-97
Member, Ethics and Standards of Practice Committee, American College of Epidemiology, 1991-1999
Member, Ethics Review Committee, Ottawa-Carleton Department of Public Health, 1993-96
Member, Research Ethics Board, Ottawa Department of Public Health, 2000-2003
Member, Publications Committee, National Council on Ethics in Human Research, 1997- 99
MAJOR ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES, UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA
Founder, Medical Education Discussion Group, Chairman, 1971-73
Chairman, Long-range planning committee 1972-74 Chairman, Curriculum Committee, 1974-77
Secretary, School of Medicine 1980-82
Honorary President, Aesculapian Society, 1991-92
Coordinator, Mentor Program for medical students, 1991-97
Coordinator, Interdepartmental First-year Medical Course, PCS 1141, "Human dimensions of health and illness" 1980-92
Member, School of Graduate Studies, 1972-
Faculty of Medicine representative, Student Advisory Group, 1981-1993
Member, Faculty of Medicine ‘Wellness Committee’ 2000-2004
RECENT CANADIAN AND INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY SERVICE
Consultant to Government of Canada on health implications of climate change mitigation and adaptation options, 1998-9; 2000-2001
Reviewer for Health Sector Working Group, United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 1998-9
WHO/CIOMS consultant, 1997; participant in WHO conferences on environmental health, Geneva, March 1997, Halifax, Nova Scotia April 1997; Facilitator of WHO/IMPO conference on Women, Health and Environment Bangkok, Thailand, August 1997
Temporary adviser to World Health Organization 1995-1998 on Health Situation Analysis, Trend Assessment and Health Projections for the period 1950-2025
Member of Research Committee, Canadian Global Change Program Chairman of Health Research Committee, CGCP, 1991-95
Many short-term consultant activities related to health impacts of global change, Canadian Govt. agencies, and nongovernmental organizations, 1990-2005
SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Ex-officio member, Board of Directors and Executive Committee, Canadian Public Health Association, 1981-91 Board of Regents, American College of Preventive Medicine, 1981-91; President, 1987- 89
Member of Council, International Epidemiological Association, 1987-1990
Vice-president for Canada and voting member of Governing Council, American Public Health Association, 1988-89
Member, Board of Directors, American College of Epidemiology, 1989-1992
Member, Advisory Committee, Second International Congress on Peer Review (1993) convened by Council of Biology Editors
Member of Health and Public Policy Committee, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, 1990-97
Member, Biomedical Ethics Committee, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, 1990-97; Ex officio or ad hoc member several other Royal College committees
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS AND EXPERIENCE
Professor and Chairman, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, 1970- 78; professor of epidemiology, University of Ottawa 1969-1992
Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine, University of Edinburgh, 1965-69
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Vermont, 1964-65
Lecturer in Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney, 1962-63
Visiting Fellow, Medical Research Council Social Medicine Research Unit, London Hospital Medical College, 1961-62
Private student, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney, 1960; graduated DPH 1960
Member of 11-partner group medical practice, Adelaide, South Australia, 1954-59
Clinical Assistant, Outpatients Department, Adelaide Children's Hospital, 1957-59
Resident and Medical Registrar, Royal Adelaide Hospital and Hillingdon Hospital, Edgware General Hospital, Whittington Hospital, Clare Hall Hospital, London, England, 1950-54
Ship's surgeon, British merchant marine, various times, 1951-1964
OTHER PERTINENT PAST EXPERIENCE
Guest lecturer, Capital Medical College of China and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 1982 (lectures also in Shanghai, Nanjing, Soochow)
Rapporteur, WHO/Rockefeller Foundation International Conference on Health Statistics, Bellagio, Italy, 1982
External Examiner in Public Health, National University of Singapore, 1982
Visiting Professor of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, City University of New York, 1978-79
Consultant, King Faisal University, Dahran, Saudi Arabia, 1977
WHO Consultant (medical education) Project SRL/HMD/007, Sri Lanka, 1976, Project 0221/01, India, 1974, Project SEARO/096 Indonesia, 1972, IEA/PAHO, Colombia, 1967
Secretary, LCME Accreditation teams, McMaster University, 1975, University of Alberta, 1973
Member, Test Committee (Public Health/Preventive Medicine) Medical Council of Canada, 1974-77
Consultant on health manpower planning, Ontario Ministry of Health, 1971-72 Member of steering committee, National Survey of Medical Students, Royal Commission on Medical Education (UK), 1966-68
Consultant, Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust (UK), 1965-67
Consultant, Australian Postgraduate Medical Federation, 1962-63
SERVICE ON GOVERNMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEES
Consultant to Auditor General of Canada for evaluation of sustainable development policies, 2000-2001
Consultant to Auditor General of Canada, for evaluation of Health Protection Branch, Health Canada, 1994-95
Temporary Advisor to WHO Energy Panel, Health and the Environment, 1990-1
Consultant, Environmental Health Division, World Health Organization, Geneva 1991
Consultant, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Health Sciences Division, 1987-90
Chairman, Working Group on Testing and Reporting for AIDS and HIV Infection, Ontario Ministry of Health, 1988-89
Chairman, Advisory Committee on Environmental Health, Metropolitan Toronto Department of Public Works, 1986-89
Member of WHO/EURO Working group on Scientific Communication, 1987
Consultant on Health Effects of Toxic Substances, Law Reform Commission of Canada, 1981-84
Chairman, ad hoc advisory committee on environmental impact of toxic pesticides, Govts of Canada and New Brunswick, 1980
Chairman, Steering Committee for developmental assessment of District Health Councils, Ontario, 1980-83
Member, Task Force on Demonstration Models, Ontario Ministry of Health, 1972-76
Member, National Health Grant Review Committee, Health and Welfare Canada, 1971- 75, Chairman, Personnel Support Subcommittee, 1974-75
Member, Epidemiology and Disease Control Study Section, National Institutes of Health, US Dept. Health Education and Welfare,1972-76; member special study sections 1977-83
Member, Expert Committee, Canada Health Survey, 1974-76
Chairman, Public Health Manpower Committee, Council of Ontario Faculties of Medicine and Ontario Ministry of Health, 1976-78
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching of epidemiology, public health and preventive medicine, medical sociology, community medicine, and medical ethics
Consultant experience on educational planning and evaluation at local, national and international levels
Development of innovative educational methods
Student counselling, approximately 12 students a year until 1993; occasional students (1- 2/year) 1994-2003
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Environmental epidemiology; ecosystem health; international health; biomedical ethics; environmental ethics (no active research projects or programs at present)
PREVIOUS RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Applications of epidemiology in health care evaluation; health manpower planning; planning and evaluation of medical education; environmental health
Member of many research program and grant review committees and frequent site visitor, since early 1970s
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Fellow, American College of Preventive Medicine, 1970-
Fellow, American College of Epidemiology, 1981-
Fellow, (UK) Faculty of Community Medicine, now Faculty of Public Health 1982-
Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1969-
Fellow, American Public Health Association, 1964-
Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine 1961-2005 (resigned 2005)
Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Canada, 1987-
Member, International Epidemiological Association, 1961-
Member, Society for Epidemiologic Research, 1971-
Member, Association Teachers of Preventive Medicine, 1964-
Member, Society for Social Medicine (UK), 1961-92; emeritus member 1992-
Member, Canadian Public Health Association, 1970-
Member, Canadian Association of University Teachers, 1969-
Member, Canadian Association of Teachers Social and Preventive Medicine; president 1972-73
Member, Canadian Society for International Health, 1974-
Member, Council of Biology Editors, 1983-97
Member, American Association for History of Medicine, 1980-92
Member, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, 1957-85
Member, British and Australian Medical Associations, 1949-
Past member of various other professional and related associations and societies
PUBLICATIONS AND LITERARY ACTIVITIES
Author/editor of books, editor of several medical journals, and author of many published papers and chapters or sections in many books (see attached list); original peer-reviewed articles are on epidemiology, health services research, medical education, health manpower planning, medical sociology, environmental health, medical ethics; peer reviewer for many journals; frequent book reviewer for many journals and newspapers.
LANGUAGES
English is first language Some French, German and Italian
OTHER INTERESTS
History and philosophy of science Antiquarian and other book collecting Travel, photography and bicycling
BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS American Men and Women of Science Canadian Who's Who Who's Who in Ontario Who's Who in the World International Who's Who in Medicine and Science
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PUBLICATIONS, etc - J.M. Last (Updated to 2010.03.16)
Books
Last JM (Ed): Maxcy-Rosenau Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 11th Edition. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1980
Last JM (Ed): A Dictionary of Epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983 [Japanese and Chinese translations 1987; Farsi (Persian) translation 1988]
Last JM (Ed): Maxcy-Rosenau Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 12th Edition. Norwalk: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1986 [Spanish translation 1992]
Last JM: Public Health and Human Ecology. Norwalk: Appleton and Lange, 1987 [Spanish (1993) and Bahasi Malay (1997) translations]
Last JM (Ed): A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2nd Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988 [Spanish, Arabic and Serbo-Croatian translations, 1991; Portuguese translation 1996]
Jammal A, Allard R, Loslier G, Battista R, Dab W, Hertoghe L, Last JM, Thuriaux MC, de Wals P (eds): Dictionnaire d'épidémiologie. St-Hyacinthe and Paris: Édisem/Maloine, 1988
Bankowski Z, Bryant JH, Last JM (Eds): Ethics and epidemiology: International Guidelines. Geneva: CIOMS, 1991
Last JM, Wallace RB (Eds): Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 13th Edition. Norwalk, CT: Appleton and Lange, 1992
Last JM (Ed): A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 3rd Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 [Arabic and Japanese translations 2001]
Last JM (Ed): Souvenirs/Memories 1945-1995. Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 1995 [A collection of memoirs and essays on history and medical education, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine]
Last JM: Public Health and Human Ecology, 2nd Edn. Stamford, CT: Appleton & Lange, 1997; publisher taken over by McGraw Hill, New York, 1998
Last JM (Ed, epidemiology, public health, etc): Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, 27th Edition, Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000 th Last JM (Ed): A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 4 Edn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000 [French, Chinese, Japanese, Farsi, Serbian, Russian, Slovakian, Ukrainian translations published 2001-6]
Lock SP, Last JM, Dunea G (Eds): Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001
Breslow L, Goldstein B, Green LW, Keck W, Last JM, McGinnis MM (eds): Encyclopedia of Public Health (4 Vols). New York: Macmillan, 2001
Bhopal R, Last J (Eds): Public Health: Past, Present and Future. London: The Stationery Office, for the Nuffield Trust, 2004 th Last JM (Ed, epidemiology, public health etc) Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, 28 Edition. Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005
Last JM: A Dictionary of Public Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 Sections of books (Serbian translation, 2008)
(Last JM) John M Last ‘tan Sözler (Quotations from John M Last, compiled and edited by Çatağay Güler. Ankara: Haccetepe University, 2007
Wallace RB, Kohatsu N, Brownson R, Schecter AJ, Scutchfield FD, Zaza S, Last JM (Eds) Public Health and Preventive Medicine 15th Edition. New York: McGraw Hill Medical, 2007
Last JM (Ed): Selected works of Janet Wendy Last. Ottawa: Gilmore-Doculink, 2009
Sections of Books
Last JM (Ed): Aspects of Community Medicine, Chapters 32-36 in Passmore R and Robson JS (Eds) A Companion to Medical Studies, Volume 2. Edinburgh: Blackwell,1969
Last JM, MacLean CMU (Eds): Community Medicine, Chapters 66-79 in Passmore R and Robson JS (Eds) A Companion to Medical Studies, Volume 3. Edinburgh and Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1974
Last JM: Contributing editor for ‘Medical’ and ‘Health’ headwords in New Oxford American Dictionary. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001
Book Chapters
Last JM: Measurement of Community Health, pp 234-245, and Patterns of Health and Disease, pp 273-286, in Clements FW and McClosky BP (Eds) Child Health, Its Origins and Promotion. London: Arnold, 1964
Last JM: Primary Medical Care, I; Record-keeping, pp 266-276 in Acheson RM (Ed) Comparability in International Epidemiology. New York: Milbank, 1965
Ellis JR, Anderson J, Last JM, Owen SG, Martin FM, Smart GA, Stokes JF, Wall WD, James AN: Survey of medical students in 1966. Appendix 19, Report of Royal Commission on Medical Education. Cmnd 3569; London: HMSO, 1968, pp 320-396 (JML was lead author for much of this)
Last JM: International Mobility in the Medical Profession, pp 31- 42 in Bechhofer F (Ed) Population Growth and the Brain Drain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1969
Last JM: Organization of Medical Care, pp 36-43 and Doctors' Attitudes, pp 44-55 in Brown RG and Whyte HM (Eds) Medical Practice and the Community. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1970
Last JM: Assessment of the Results of Medical Care, pp 65-72 and Rationale of Community-based Medical Care, pp 167-176 in Dodge JS (Ed) Organization and Evaluation of Medical Care. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 1970
Last JM: Data Collection Requirements for Patient Management, pp 159-168 in Murnaghan JH and White KL (Eds) Hospital Discharge Data. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970
Shivas AA, MacDonald MK, Last JM: General Pathology of Tumours, pp 28.1-28.18 in Passmore R and Robson JS (Eds) A Companion to Medical Studies, Vol 2. Edinburgh and Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1970
Last JM: Demography, Vital and Health Statistics, pp 34.1-34.17 in Passmore R and Robson JS (Eds) A Companion to Medical Studies, Vol 2. Edinburgh and Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1970
Morrison SL, Last JM: The Epidemiological Approach to Disease, pp 35.1-35.16 in Passmore R and Robson JS (Eds) A Companion to Medical Studies, Vol 2. Edinburgh and Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1970
Poole JE, Marrett LD, Last JM: Female Health and Reproductive Behaviour, pp 234-246 in Larsen DE and Love EJ (Eds) Health Care Research. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1974
Last JM: Front Line Care, pp 79.1-79.6 in Passmore R and Robson JS (Eds) A Companion to Medical Studies, Vol 3. Edinburgh and Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1974 Last JM: Teaching About Chronic Illness and Aging, pp 1-7 in Clark DW and Williams TF (Eds) Teaching of Chronic Illness and Aging. Washington DC:DHEW Publication No (NIH) 75-876, 1975
Shivas AA, Bird CC, MacDonald MK, Last JM: General Pathology of Tumours, pp 36.1- 36.21 in Passmore R and Robson JS (Eds) A Companion to Medical Studies, 2nd Edition, Vol 2. Edinburgh and Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1980
Last JM: Demography, Vital and Health Statistics, pp 42.1-42.16 in Passmore R and Robson JS (Eds) A Companion to Medical Studies, 2nd Edition, Vol 2. Edinburgh and Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1980
Morrison SL, Last JM: The Epidemiological Approach to Disease, pp 43.1-43.17 in Passmore R and Robson JS (Eds) A Companion to Medical Studies, 2nd Edition, Vol 2. Edinburgh and Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1980
Last JM: The Epidemiologist's Perspective, pp 201-204 in Hirsch RA (Ed) Health Care Delivery in Anesthesia. Philadelphia: Stickley, 1980
Last JM: Scope and Methods of Prevention, pp 3-8 in Last JM (Ed) Maxcy-Rosenau Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 11th Edition. New York: Appleton-Century- Crofts, 1980
Sartwell PE, Last JM: Epidemiology, pp 9-85 in Last JM (Ed) Maxcy-Rosenau Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 11th Edition. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1980
Last JM: Housing and Health, pp 864-871 in Last JM (Ed) Maxcy- Rosenau Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 11th Edition. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1980
Higgins I, Lilienfeld AM, Last JM: Ill Effects of Tobacco Smoking, pp 1066-1076 in Last JM (Ed) Maxcy-Rosenau Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 11th Edition. New York: Appleton- Century-Crofts, 1980
Shechter AJ, Last JM: Substance Abuse; Drug Dependence and Alcoholism, pp 1077-1094 in Last JM (Ed) Maxcy-Rosenau Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 11th Edition. New York: Appleton- Century-Crofts, 1980
Last JM, Sartwell PE: Hazards of Medical Care, pp 1787-1799 in Last JM (Ed) Maxcy- Rosenau Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 11th Edn. New York: Appleton-Century- Crofts, 1980
Flett DE, Last JM, Lynch GW: Evaluation of the Public Health Nurse as Primary Care Provider for Elderly People, pp 177-188 in Marshall VW (Ed) Aging in Canada. Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1980
Raman S, Last JM: Health Planning in the Canadian North - a Statistical Analysis, pp 121- 129 in Pichler/Trappe (Eds) Progress in Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vol VI. Washington DC: Hemisphere Publishing Company, 1981
Last JM: Nosography - Conceptual, Epidemiological and Statistical Implications, pp 34-48 in Health Statistics for the Year 2000. Budapest: Statistical Publishing House, 1984. (WHO Publication No 83-5285-10).
Last JM: Scope and Methods of Prevention, pp 3-8; Epidemiology and health information, pp 9-74; Housing and Health, pp 891-898; Hazards of Health Care, pp 1577-1590; in Last JM (Ed) Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 12th Edition. Norwalk: Appleton- Century-Crofts, 1985
Last JM, Foege WH: International Health, pp 1793-1808 in Last JM (Ed) Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 12th Edition. Norwalk: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1985
Last JM: Agenda for a Healthier Future, pp 138-157, in Howell JM (Ed): Think Prevention. Edmonton: Alberta Hospital and Health Unit Association, 1987
Last JM: The Future of Health and Health Services, pp 20-34, in Bui DHD (Ed): The Future of Health and the Health Care Systems in the Industrialized Societies. New York: Praeger 1988
Last JM: An Ethical Framework for Epidemiology, pp 125-135 in Allebeck P, Jansson B, (Eds): Ethics in Medicine. New York: Raven, 1990
Last JM: Foreword, in Goldbloom RB, Lawrence RS (Eds): Preventing Disease; Beyond the Rhetoric. Berlin, New York: Springer, 1990
Last JM: Public Health, in McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia, 7th Edition New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991; Vol. 14, pp 504-505
Last JM: Epidemiology and ethics, pp. 14-28 in Bankowski Z, Bryant JH, Last JM (Eds): Ethics and epidemiology: International Guidelines. Geneva: CIOMS, 1991
Tyler CW Jr, Last JM: Epidemiology, in Last JM, Wallace RB (Eds): Maxcy-Rosenau- Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 13th Edition. Norwalk, CT: Appleton and Lange, 1992; pp 11-40
Last JM: Scope, goals and methods of public health, pp 3-10; Housing and health, pp 671- 675; Global environment, health and health services, pp 677-686; International health, pp 1129-1140; Ethics and public health policy, pp 1187-1196, in Last JM, Wallace RB (Eds): Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 13th Edition. Norwalk CT: Appleton and Lange, 1992
Last JM: Epidemiology, society and ethics, Chapter 79 in Gillon, R (Ed): Principles of Health Care Ethics. Chichester, UK: Wiley, 1993, pp 917-932
Last JM: Alternatives to animals in preventive medicine, Chapter 12 in Kapis MB, Gad SC (Eds): Non-animal techniques in biomedical and behavioral research. Boca Raton: Lewis, 1993, pp 187-194
McCally M, Last J, Chivian E: Medicine and the environment, Chapter 10 in Principles of Medical Biology, Vol. 1A. Osaka: JAI Press, 1994; pp 177-200
Last JM: The epidemiological imagination, in Ashton J (Ed): The Epidemiological Imagination: Buckingham, UK: Open University Press, 1994; pp 110-125
Last JM, Parkinson MD: Health officials and their responsibilities, in Beachamp D et al (Eds): Encyclopedia of Bioethics, second edition. New York: Macmillan 1995; Vol 2, pp 1113-1116
Last JM: Entries on epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental and preventive medicine etc, in 26th Edition of Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1995
Last JM, Woolf SH: Ethical issues in providing preventive care, in Jonas S, Lawrence RS, Woolf SH (Eds): Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1995; pp. 554-568
Last JM: Professional standards of conduct of epidemiologists, in Beauchamp T, Coughlin S (Eds) Ethical issues in epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996; pp. 53- 75
Last JM: Determinants of health and disease, in Keck W, Scutchfield FD (Eds): Public Health Practice. Albany, NY: Delmar, 1996; pp 31-41
Last JM: Ethical dimensions of global ecosystem sustainability and human health, in Bankowski Z, Bryant JH, Gallagher J (Eds): Ethics, Equity and Health for All. Geneva: WHO and CIOMS, 1997
Tyler CW Jr, Last JM: Health Information and Epidemiology, in Wallace RB (Ed): Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 14th Edition. Stamford, CT: Appleton & Lange, 1998; pp 5-33 19
Last JM: Ethics and Public Health Policy, pp 35-43, Housing and Health, pp 779-782, Human Health in a Changing World, pp 783-794, International Health, pp 1141-1147, in Wallace RB (Ed) Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine 14th Edition. Stamford CT: Appleton & Lange 1998
Last JM: Some transdisciplinary experiences, in Somerville MA, Rapport DJ (Eds): Transdisciplinarity – Recreating Integrated Knowledge. Oxford: EOLSS Publishers, 2000; pp 193-202
Last JM: Epidemiology and public health, in Olsen J, Trichopoulos D, Saracci R (Eds): Teaching Epidemiology; what you should know and what you can do. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001; pp 21-32
Last JM: Health, in Tolba MK (Ed): Our Fragile World. Paris and Oxford: UNESCO and EOLSS publishers, 2001; pp 777-794
Last JM: Various articles in Lock, Last Dunea, Op Cit (total about 20,000 words)
Last JM: Various articles in Breslow et al, Op Cit (total about 80,000 words)
Last JM: Climate change (global warming) and health, pp 273-287 in Zong Shuije and st Nelson Y S Kiang (Eds)Health Care East and West: Moving into the 21 Century: Beijing: China Science and Technology Press, 2002
Scutchfield FD, Last JM: Public health in North America, pp 105-119 in Beaglehole R (Ed): Global Public Health, A new Era. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003
Last JM, McGinniss JM: The determinants of health, pp 45-58 in FD Scutchfield and CW nd Keck (Eds): Principles of Public Health Practice 2 Edn, Albany, NY: Delmar, 2003
Last J: Landmarks in the history of public health pp 1-11 and Epilogue: Towards transdisciplinary public health pp 195-196 in Bhopal R and Last J (Eds) Op cit. 2004
Last JM: A brief history of advances towards health, pp 3-14 in Gunn SWA, Mansourian PB, Davies AM, Piel A, Sayers BM (Eds): Understanding the Global Dimensions of Health. Berlin and New York: Springer 2005
Last JM: Living in harmony with the earth and with each other, pp 277-286 in Arya N, Santa Barbara J (Eds): Peace through health. Sterling, VA, Kumarian Press, 2007
Soskolne CL, Last JM: Ethics and Public Health Policy, in Wallace RB et al (op cit) pp 27-38
Last JM: Housing and Health, in Wallace et al (op cit) pp 919-924
Last JM, Soskolne CL: Human health in a changing world, in Wallace et al, (op cit) pp 925-938
Original Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals:
Last JM: The health of immigrants; observations from general practice. Med J Aust, 1960, 1:159-163
Last JM: Planning the future in medical practice; an experiment in medical education. Med J Aust 1960, 1:470-472
Last JM: Maternal and child health; the role of the general practitioner. Med J Aust, 1960, 1:728-730
Last JM: The Iceberg;"completing the clinical picture" in general practice. Lancet, 1963, 2:28-31
Last JM: Communication difficulties and community health services. Aust J Social Issues, 1963, 1:4:43-52
Last JM: Medical manpower in Australia. Med J Aust, 1964, 1:244- 252
Last JM: Leisure and health. Ann Gen Pract, 1964, 9:21-25
Jungfer CC, Last JM: Clinical performance in Australian general practice. Med Care, 1964, 2:71-83
Last JM: Organization and economics of medical care in Australia. N Engl J Med, 1965, 272:293-297
Last JM: Measurement of medical care in general practice. Med J Aust, 1965, 1:280-283 Last JM: Primary medical care, 1; record-keeping. Milbank Mem Fund Quart, 1965, 43:2:266-275
Last JM: Evaluation of medical care. Med J Aust, 1965, 2:781-785
Last JM: Quality of general practice. Med J Aust, 1967, 1:780-784
Last JM: University medical staff. Lancet, 1967, 1:1318-1321
Last JM: Regional distribution of general practitioners and consultants in the national health service. Brit Med J, 1967, 2:796-799
Last JM: Objective measurement of quality in general practice (Tasmania Prize paper). Ann Gen Pract, 1967, 12:2-26 21
Last JM, Martin FM, Stanley GR: Academic record and subsequent career. Proc Roy Soc Med, 1967, 60:813-816
Last JM: Overseas movement of British doctors. Soc Econ Admin, 1967, 1:4:20-28
Last JM: How many doctors do we need? Lancet, 1968, 2:166-167
Last JM, Stanley GR: Career preference of young British doctors. Brit J Med Education, 1968, 2:137-155
Stanley GR, Last JM: Careers of young medical women. Brit J Med Education, 1968, 2:204-209
Last JM: Substitutes for hospital care. World Med J, 1968, 15:60- 71
Joyce CRB, Last JM, Weatherall M: Personal factors as a cause of differences in prescribing by general practitioners. Brit J Prev Soc Med, 1968, 12:170-177
Last JM: Medical manpower in Great Britain. Health Bulletin, 1968, 26:70-74
Last JM, White KL: Content of medical care in primary practice. Med Care, 1969, 7:41-48
Last JM, Stanley GR: Performance in medical school examinations. Brit J Med Education, 1969, 3:43-49
Last JM: Community demand for doctors in the next ten years. Brit Med J, 1969, 1:769- 772
Walton HJ, Last JM: Young doctors aiming to enter different specialties. Brit Med J, 1969, 2:752-754
Last JM: Migrating doctors. Scottish Med J, 1969, 14:410-414
Last JM: Measuring the results of teaching social medicine. Proc Roy Soc Med, 1970, 63:393-395
Last JM, Broadie E: Further careers of young British doctors. Brit Med J, 1970, 4:735-738
Last JM, Neutel CI: Recording and measuring outcome in primary practice. Proc 6th Internat Meeting Int Epidemiol Assoc (Primosten, Yugoslavia) 1972, 1000-1009
Boudreau T, Last JM, Poole PE, Sackett DL: National health grant health care evaluation seminars. Can J Pub Health, 1973, 64:260-4
Last JM: Function of a department of community medicine. Med J Aust, 1974, 1:1006-9
Miller CT, Neutel CI, Nair RC, Marrett LD, Last JM, Collins WE: Relative importance of risk factors in bladder carcinogenesis. J Chron Dis, 1978, 31:51-56
Collins WE, Catton CE, Hussey A, Baker RG, Last JM: Management of primary bladder cancer by a multidisciplinary team. Can J Surgery 1979, 22:431-433
Barrette PA, Lynch GW, Wu ASM, Offord DR, Last JM: Dental utilization and dental health status of children from a rent-to- income housing complex. Can J Pub Health, 1981, 72:105-110
Last JM: Why we need schools of public health. J Public Health Pol 1982, 3:480-482
Last JM: Medical ethics and education for social responsibility. World Health Forum, 1983, 3:357-375
Reid J, Camus J, Last JM: Suicide in Canada - birth cohort analysis. Can J Pub Health, 1985, 76:43-47
Last JM: Reducing the hazards of health care. World Health Forum, 1985, 6:135-142
de Koning HW, Smith KR, Last JM: Biomass fuel combustion and health. Bull WHO, 1985,63:(1):11-26
Last JM: Personal view of teaching medicine. Brit Med J, 1985, 1:1900
Offord DR, Last JM, Barrette PA: A comparison of the school performance, emotional adjustment and skill development of poor and middle-class children. Can J Pub Health, 1985, 76:174-178
Last JM: L'avenir de la santé et des services de santé (The future of health and health care). Cahiers de sociologie et de démographie médicales, 1986, 25:303-327
Miller WJ, Last JM: Cohort analysis of motor vehicle traffic accident mortality in Canada. Am J Prev Med 1988, 4:220-230
Last JM: What is "Clinical Epidemiology?" J Public Health Policy, 1988, 9:2:159-163
Last JM: Terveydenhuolto, paternalismi ja itsmääräämisoikeus (Autonomy, paternalism and public health). Sosiääli- lääketieeellinen (Finnish Journal of Social Medicine), 1988, 25:153-157
Last JM: Making the most of research. World Health Forum, 1989, 10:32-36
Last JM: Épidémies d'hier, SIDA aujourd'hui.Médecine/sciences, 1989, 5:4:206-212
Last JM: A Vision of health in the 21st Century. Can Med Ass J 1989, 140:1277-1279
Last JM: Ethics, health policy and AIDS. Can J Public Health 1989, 80:3:(Suppl):28-30
Last JM: Of greenhouses and granaries. Am J Prev Med, 1989, 5:120
Last JM: Guidelines on ethics for epidemiologists. Int J Epidemiol, 1990, 19:226-229
Last JM: Workshop: Epidemiology and ethics. Lancet 1990, 336:497
Last JM: Epidemiologists' duties to research subjects. J Clin Epidemiol, 1991, 90:95S- 101S
Last JM: Homo sapiens - a suicidal species? World Health Forum, 1991, 12:2:121-139
Last JM: The future of public health. Japanese Journal of Public Health, 1991, 38:10:58-93
Last JM, Guidotti TL: Implications for Human Health of Global Ecological Change. Public Health Reviews, 1990/91, 18:49-67
Last JM: Epidemiology and ethics. Law, Medicine & Health Care, 1991, 19:3-4:166-174
Last JM: Global change: ozone depletion, greenhouse warming and public health. Annu Rev Publ Health 1993, 14:115-136
Last JM: Global change: a new challenge for the medical profession. Annals RCPSC 1993, 26:13-16
Last JM: War and the demographic trap. Lancet 1993, 342:508-9
Last JM: New pathways in an age of ecological and ethical concerns. Int J Epidemiol 1994, 23:1:1-4
Swenson JR, Boyle A, Last JM, Pérez EL, Rassell JA, Gosselin JY: Mentorship in medical education. Ann RCPSC, 1995, 28:165-171
Last JM: Redefining the unacceptable. Lancet 1995, 346:1642-3
Last JM: Making the Dictionary of Epidemiology. Int J Epidemiol 1996, 25:5:1098-1101
Last JM: Epidemiology -- the basic, clinical, essential science. Ann Epidemiol, 1996, 6:5:369-370
Last JM: Ethical challenges for epidemiologists. Japan J Epidemiol, 1997: (Suppl) S93- S98
Trollope-Kumar K, Last J: Women, health and environment; Towards healthy public policy. Ann RCPSC, 1997, 30:425-429
Last JM: Human-induced ecological determinants of infectious disease. Ecosystem Health 1998, 4:2:83-91
Prineas RJ, Goodman K, Soskolne CL, Buck G, Feinleib M, Last JM, Andrews JS: Findings from the American College of Epidemiologys Survey on Ethics Guidelines. Annals Epidemiol, 1998, 8:8:482-489
Last JM: Medicine and Literature. Annals RCPSC 1999, 32:8:449-452
Last JM: Fouling and cleansing our nest; Human-induced ecological determinants of infectious diseases. Perspect Hum Biol 1999, 4:1: 145-157
Last JM, Logan H: Report of a Workshop on Climate Change, Science and Health; Monitoring, Surveillance and Research Needs. Can J Pub Health 1999, 90: 6: (Insert)1-16
Patz J, Engelberg D, Last J: Effects of changing weather on public health. Annu Rev Public Health, 2000, 21: 271-307
Last JM: Endings [on palliative care, etc]. Annals RCPSC, 2000, 33:4:240-241
Last JM: Ethics, politics and public health. Int J Epidemiol, 2001, 30:2:187-188 (An ‘essay review’)
Last JM, Chiotti QP: Climate change and health. ISUMA, 2001, 2:4:62-69
Last JM: Connecting the dots; the power of words and the diversity of epidemiological information. J Epidemiol Community Health, 2010, 64:105-108
Last JM: Future challenges to health and public health services in Canada. Can J Public Health, 2010, Jan-Feb, 5-6
Other Original Articles
Last JM: Medicine and society. AMSS Review, 1949, 61:69-74
Last JM: Be your own almoner (Social work in general practice). AMSS Review, 1957, 2:3-8
Last JM: Road accidents. Good health for South Australia, Summer 1960, 24-30
Last JM: Problems of communication and cooperation in medical care. Health, 1963, 13:84-90
Last JM: How Australia pays doctors. New Society, 1966, 185:14-15
Last JM: Medical care in Australia. Practitioner, 1966, 197:177- 184
Last JM: General practice in Australia. J Irish Med Ass, 1966, 59:69-71
Last JM: Medical records and the quality of general practice. Int Med Tribune, 1966, 1:4
Last JM: Implications of medical manpower studies. J Hosp Admin, 1967, 4:3:62-71
Last JM: Training the young doctor. Hosp Med, 1967, 2:7:843-850
Last JM: Research, a challenge for keen young minds. Can Fam Phys, 1973, 11:31
Last JM: Content for community medicine. ATPM Newsletter, 1973, 20:2-4 Last JM, Miller CT: INH and bladder cancer. Cancer in Ontario 1974; pp 67-68
Winter SJ, Last JM: Registered nurses in office practice. Canadian Nurse, 1974, 11:18-20
Last JM: Nature and quality of epidemiological evidence. Chinese Med J, 1983, 96:597- 600
Last JM: Teaching medicine. (Univ. Ottawa) Communiqué, 1984, 5:3-5
Last JM: How Can We Predict the Future? Health Policy (Amsterdam), 1987, 8:3:363-4
Last JM: Ethics and epidemiology. World Health, June 1989, 22-24
Last JM: War and the health of children. Am J Prev Med, 1991, 7:253
Last JM: Potential health effects of global climate change. Delta, 1991, 2:2-3
Last JM: The evolving ethics of epidemiology. NCBHR Communiqué, 1991, 2:6-7
Last JM: The ethics of health promotion. Westminster Affairs, 1992, 5:3:1-4
Last JM: New causes for new diseases. World Health, 50th Year, No. 1 Jan-Feb 1997; pp 12-13 26
Letters in peer-reviewed journals
Last JM: Medical practice outside the hospital. Lancet, 1963, 1:502
Last JM: The Antipodes. Lancet, 1963, 1:1211-1212
Last JM: Migration of British doctors to Australia. Brit Med J, 1963, 2:744-5
Last JM: Emigration of doctors. Brit Med J, 1964, 2:507
Last JM, Martin FM, Stanley GR: Mortality of appendicitis. Lancet, 1967, 1:331
Last JM: Medical manpower in Australia. Med J Aust, 1967, 1:1050
Last JM: Medical staffing in the NHS. Lancet, 1967, 2:769
Last JM: The brain drain. The Times (London) Oct 20 1967, p. 13
Flett DE, Last JM, Winter SJ: The nurse in the community. Lancet, 1974, 2:1447
Neutel CI, Nair RC, Last JM: Are hair dyes associated with bladder cancer? Can Med Ass J, 1978, 119:307
Last JM: Medical school intake and manpower implications. Brit Med J, 1980, 2:1089
Last JM: Towards a dictionary of epidemiological terms. Int J Epidemiol, 1982, 11:188- 189
Last JM: Dictionary of epidemiology. Am J Epidemiol, 1982, 116:870-871
Last JM: A new medical school curriculum. N Engl J Med, 1983, 308:1231-1232
Last JM: Is the establishment defensible? N Engl J Med, 1984, 310:994
Last JM: Epidemiological terms. Med J Aust 1984, 141:400
Last JM: Definition and scope of epidemiology. Int J Epidemiol, 1984, 13:542
Last JM, Jessamine AG: Paleontology of Smallpox. Lancet 1985, 1:153
Last JM: Journal peer review. N Engl J Med,1985, 313:455
Last JM: Disclosure of journal referees' reports. Lancet 1985, 1:176
Last JM: Health in the greenhouse. Lancet, 1989, 1:1209
Last JM: Epidemiology; questions of science, ethics, morality and law. Am J Epidemiol, 1989, 130:1073
Last JM: Prospective or retrospective - what's in a name? Br Med J, 1991, 302:528
Last JM: Draft guidelines on ethics for epidemiologists. Int J Epidemiol, 1991, 20:823-824
Soskolne CL, Last JM: CMA Ethical guidelines. J Occup Med 1993, 35:97-98
Last JM: Climate change and health. Lancet 1994, 343:304
Last JM: Contemplating a one-child world. Br Med J 1996, 312:907
Last JM: Distress signals on unusual wavelengths. Br Med J 2000,
Review articles and published reports of a substantial nature
Last JM: Culture, society and the migrant. Med J Aust, 1961,1:419-424
Last JM: Le personnel médical en Grande-Bretagne. Cahiers de sociologie et de démographie médicales, 1969, 9:26-31
Last JM: Medical manpower in international perspective. Milbank Mem Fund Quart, 1970, 48:219-226
Last JM: Natural and Social History of Epidemics, in Background Papers, AIDS - A Perspective for Canadians. Royal Society of Canada. Ottawa, 1988; pp 9-14
Guidotti T, Hancock T, Last JM, and others: Human and Ecosystem Health; Canadian Perspectives. Ottawa: Canadian Public Health Association, 1992
Last JM (Chairman): Implications of global change for human health; final report of the Health Panel, Canadian Global Change Program. Ottawa: Royal Society of Canada, 1995
Last JM, Trollope-Kumar K: Women, health and environment. A background paper for the International Medical Parliamentarians Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, August 1997. Delhi: WHO/SEARO, 1997
Last JM, Trouton K, Pengelly D: Taking Our Breath Away: the Health Effects of Air Pollution and Climate Change. Vancouver: Suzuki Foundation, 1998
Last JM: Situating ethics in public health; background paper for first Canadian Round- Table on public health ethics, Montreal, November 2008.
Handbooks
Last JM (Ed): Careers in preventive medicine. Washington DC: American College of Preventive Medicine, 1984
Bankowski Z, Bryant JH, Dickens B, Last JM and others: International Guidelines for Ethical Review of Epidemiological Studies. Geneva: CIOMS, 1991
Mimeographed reports of a substantial nature
Last JM: Report to the Postgraduate Medical Foundation, University of Sydney, on a Fellowship Grant 1961-62. Mimeographed. University of Sydney, 1962; pp. 38
Last JM, Martin FM, Stanley GR: British medical students in 1961. Mimeographed. London: Association for Study of Medical Education, 1967; pp 60
Last JM, Pemberton J: Assignment Report on development of faculty of public health and the curriculum in preventive and social medicine in six state medical schools in Indonesia. SEA/Med Educ/179, WHO New Delhi, 1972 (Restricted)
Last JM (Secretary/Rapporteur): Report on accreditation visit, University of Alberta Medical School. Washington, DC: Liason Committee on Medical Education, 1973 (Restricted)
French EB, Last JM: Assignment report, teaching in the internship period. WHO/SEARO/Med Educ/India 0221.01, WHO New Delhi, 1974 (Restricted)
Last JM (Secretary/Rapporteur): Report on accreditation visit, McMaster University Medical School. Washington DC: Liason Committee on Medical Education, 1975 (Restricted)
Last JM: Assignment report, education in population dynamics, epidemiology and family health in Sri Lanka. WHO/SEARO/SRL HMD 007, New Delhi, 1976 (Restricted)
Flett DE, Lynch GW, Last JM: Evaluation of the public health nurse as primary care provider for senior citizens. Staff paper, Long-range health planning branch, Health and Welfare Canada. Ottawa, 1977
Last JM: Health and illness in deprived urban communities, in Commission of enquiry into poverty, Third main report. Canberra: Australian Government Printing Office, 1976
de Koning HW, Smith KR, Last JM: Biomass fuel combustion and health. Geneva: WHO Publication EFP/84.64, 1984 (Restricted)
Last JM: Health Sciences Division, IDRC, In-depth Review (Restricted); Ottawa, IDRC, 1988 (pp. 83 + Appendices)
Last JM: Biomass fuels, in McGibbon B, Ozolins G (Eds): Environmental determinants of health associated with the production, distribution and use of energy. Geneva, WHO, 1991 (Restricted; edited version published as WHO/EHE/92.03)
Last JM: Child deaths due to virus diseases in developing countries. Document prepared for Cabinet, Government of Canada, February 1991 (Restricted)
Last JM: Virus diseases in Canada. Document prepared for Cabinet, Government of Canada, June 1991 (Restricted) Last JM: Preparing for the 21st Century. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1995 (restricted)
Last JM: Ethical dimensions of global ecosystem sustainability and human health. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1997 (restricted)
Last JM: Implications of Climate Change Mitigation Options for Human Health in Canada. Discussion Document for the Climate Change and Health Office, Health Canada. Ottawa, 1998
Last JM: Health and sustainable development; a background paper prepared for WHO Working Group meeting, Oslo, Norway, November 29, 2001 (restricted)
Last JM, Sahni V: Impacts of climate change in Canada and in Eastern Ontario in particular (restricted); prepared for the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, January 2002
Last JM: Health and the global environment; a submission to the Federal Ministers of Health and the Environment for a meeting on February 20, 2002 (restricted)
Editorials, etc
Anon: Lifelong medical education. Med J Aust, 1962, 2:569- 570 Anon: Selection of students and selection by students. Med J Aust, 1962, 2:995-996 Anon: The publication explosion. Med J Aust, 1963, 1:397-8 Anon: The epidemiology of mental disorder. Med J Aust, 1963, 1:705-6 Anon: General practice and the prevention of disease. Med J Aust, 1964, 1:15-16 Anon: Clinical performance in Australian general practice. Med J Aust, 1964, 2:273-4 Anon: The Canadian Royal Commission on health services. Med J Aust, 1965, 1:275-6 Anon: Diagnosis. Med J Aust, 1965, 2:541-2 Last JM: Quality control in general practice. Med Care, 1965, 3:131-2 Anon: Sampling. Lancet, 1966, 2:691 Anon: Silver spoons and wooden spoons. Med J Aust, 1968, 2:225-227 Anon: Evaluation of community health care. Med J Aust, 1974, 1:119-120 Last JM: Planners in the works. Can Med Ass J, 1978, 119:201-2 Last JM: Sexual inequity in medical care. Can Med Ass J, 1980, 123:824-828 Last JM: Teamwork, leadership and recruitment to public health. Can J Pub Health, 1981, 72:11-12 Last JM: Environmental health - information please. Can J Pub Health, 1981, 72:87-88 Last JM: A good start in life.Can J Pub Health, 1981, 72:294-6 Last JM: Smoking or health. Can J Pub Health, 1981, 72:366-68 Last JM: Promoting better health among the elderly. Can J Pub Health, 1982, 73:20-22 Last JM: Towards the tenth revision. Can J Pub Health, 1982, 73:79-82 Last JM: Questions about coronary heart disease. Can J Pub Health, 1982, 73:225-228 Last JM: Health of native Canadians - its relevance to world health. Can J Pub Health, 1982, 73:297-300 Last JM: Inequalities in health. Can J Pub Health,1982, 73:377-80 Last JM: Confrontation, conflict, violence. Can J Pub Health, 1983, 74:39 Last JM: Health crisis 2000. Can J Pub Health, 1983, 74:307-8 Last JM: Preserving universal medicare. Can J Pub Health, 1983, 74:377-378 Last JM: Aging Babies. Can J Pub Health, 1984, 75:119-120 Last JM: Health and the indoor environment. Can J Pub Health, 1984, 75:189-190 Last JM: Seventyfive years. Can J Pub Health, 1984, 75:336-7 Last JM: Health - whose responsibility is it anyway? Can J Pub Health, 1984, 75:439-441 Last JM: Controlling the smoking epidemic.Am J Prev Med, 1985, 1:(4):3-7 Last JM: Global Interdependence. Can J Pub Health, 1985, 76:369-371 Last JM: The two highest priorities in public health. Can J Pub Health, 1986, 77:5-8 Last JM: Some ethical issues in public health. Can J Pub Health, 1986, 77:75-78 Last JM: Individual privacy and health information - an ethical dilemma? Can J Pub Health, 1986, 77:168-170 Last JM: Achieving health for all. Can J Pub Health, 1986, 77:384-386 Last JM: The ethics of paternalism in public health. Can J Pub Health, 1987, 78:3-6 Last JM: Ethics, mores and values - and AIDS. Can J Pub Health, 1987, 78:75-78 Last JM: Our Common Future. Can J Pub Health, 1987, 78:366-7 Last JM: The Future of Health in Canada. Can J Public Health, 1988, 79:147-149 Last JM: The Future Need for Schools of Public Health in Canada. Can J Public Health, 1988, 79:219-221 Last JM: The future of higher education in public health, 2. Can J Public Health, 1988, 79:411-413 Last JM: Public health in the 80s and 90s. Can J Public Health, 1989, 80:391-393 Last JM: Public health and the global environment. Can J Public Health, 1990, 81:3-6 Last JM: The failures of success. Can J Public Health, 1990, 81:91 Last JM: Existing opportunities for graduate training in public health in Canada. Can J Public Health, 1990, 81:179-181 Last JM: The weaker sex? Annals RCPSC, 1990, 23:407-8 Last JM: The demographic trap and sustainable health. Can J Public Health, 1991, 82:3-4 Last JM: Difficult decisions. Annals RCPSC, 1991, 24:181-182 Last JM: Reactions to contagion. Can J Public Health, 1991, 82:289-292 Last JM: Demilitarizing the literature. Annals RCPSC, 1991, 24:362 Last JM: Sexual abuse of patients. Annals RCPSC, 1992, 25:18-19 Last JM: The Barer-Stoddart Report. Annals RCPSC, 1992, 25:94-95 Last JM: Informed consent. Annals RCPSC, 1992, 25:263-4 Last JM: Women in medicine. Annals RCPSC, 1992, 25:424-5 Last JM: International medical graduates. Annals RCPSC, 1993, 26:77-78 Last JM: Medical records. Annals RCPSC, 1993, 26:341-2 Last JM: Medical records, 2. Annals RCPSC, 1994, 27:8-9 Last JM: The international year of the family. Annals RCPSC, 1994, 27:197-198 Last JM: Go north, young specialist. Annals RCPSC, 1994, 27:266 Last JM: How many? What kind? Where? [on supply and distribution of physicians]. Annals RCPSC, 1994, 27:393-4 Last JM: Caring for our brothers and sisters [on international health]. Annals RCPSC, 1995, 28:8-9 Last JM: Ages of consent [on ethics and law]. Annals RCPSC 1995, 28:197-8 Last JM: Human rights, doctors' rights and patients' rights [on medical ethics]. Annals RCPSC 1995, 28:262-3 Last JM: Things to come [on changing human values]. Annals RCPSC, 1995, 28:326-7 Last JM: Things to come, 2; Changing patterns of disease. Annals RCPSC, 1995, 28:391-2 Last JM: Things to come, 3; The future of specialized medicine. Annals RCPSC, 1996, 29:71-2 Last JM: Things to come, 4; what we should do. Annals RCPSC, 1996, 29:328-329 Last JM: Epidemiology - the basic, clinical, creative, essential science. Ann Epidemiol, 1996, 6:369-370 Last JM: The National Forum on Health. Annals RCPSC, 1996, 29:457-8 Last JM: Our wired world. Annals RCPSC, 1997, 30:71-72 Last JM: When individual and collective interests clash. Annals RCPSC 1997, 30:263-264 Last JM: Can we end the arms race against infectious pathogens? Annals RCPSC 1997, 30:327-328 Last JM: The cultural context of ethical problems. Annals RCPSC, 1997, 30:397-398 Last JM: A valedictory editorial. Annals RCPSC 1997, 30:455-456
Books and book chapters in press and in preparation
Last JM: Philosophical and Ethical Issues in Public Health. New York: Oxford University Press (Complete draft now in 6th revision; under contract, to be published when ready) Last JM: Some Last Words; autobiographical reflections on how the world, science, values and society have changed since the 1930s. Draft of about 90,000 words for private circulation Last JM, White FMM, Stallones L: Public Health and Human Ecology, 3rd edition. New York, Oxford University Press. (Publication expected 2013)
Other publications
Published abstracts, many book reviews, contributions to "In England Now" (Lancet) and "Personal View" (British Medical Journal) etc.; regular columns, "From the editor's desk" and "The Passing Scene" in Canadian Journal of Public Health, "From around the world" in American Journal of Preventive Medicine, "They say/ On dit" in Annals RCPSC, many other editorials and commentaries of an ephemeral nature, are not listed. Publications in lay press (articles, columns, letters to editors) not listed. Total number of these estimated to be well over 200 in past 50 years. Selected recent presentations, lectures, etc
The Role of the Medical Press in the Weapons Dialogue, 8th International Congress, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Montreal, June 1988 An ethical framework for epidemiology, Nobel Institute symposium (Third International Congress on Ethics in Medicine), Stockholm, Sweden, June 1989 The moral responsibilities of epidemiologists (Wade Hampton Frost Memorial Lecture), Epidemiology Section, American Public Health Association, Chicago, 1989 Future directions for preventive medicine; outgoing president's address, American College of Preventive Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, April 1989 Health implications of global climate change, CBC radio "Sunday Morning" current affairs program, 5 consecutive weeks, July-August 1989 The future of public health, Keynote address to 50th General Assembly of the Japanese Public Health Association, Morioka, Japan, October 1991 Evolution of ideas about the public health. Hannah Foundation History of Medicine lecture, University of Ottawa, March 1992 Global change and human health. United Nations conference on health and the global environment, New York, May 1993 Global change, human health and human values. Uppsala University, Sweden, June 1993 The demographic trap and sustainable health: moral dilemmas in world health. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Vancouver, September 1993 New Pathways in an age of Ecological and Ethical Concerns, Keynote address, International Epidemiological Association, Sydney, Australia, September 1993 Ethical problems in international health. American Public Health Association, San Francisco, October 1993 Priorities for health-related research on global change. American Public Health Association, San Francisco, October 1993 [Part of the report of the Health panel, Canadian Global Change Program] Human Values and Sustainable Health. Duncan Clark Lecture, Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1994 Ethical challenges for epidemiologists. Invited keynote lecture, International Epidemiological Association, Nagoya, Japan, August 1996 Ethical dimensions of global ecosystem sustainability and human health, presented at XXIXth CIOMS Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, March 1997 Women, health and environment, presented at WHO/IMPO Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, August 1997 Interaction of behavioural and environmental determinants of health; sources of evidence and challenges for epidemiology, presented at IEA/EMRO Conference on epidemiology and health policy, Beirut, Lebanon, November 1997 Global ecosystem sustainability and human health, presented at 5th World Congress on Human Ecology, Adelaide, Australia, December 1997 Medicine and literature, presented in a symposium on the Humanities in Medical Education, McMaster University, May 1999 What we can learn from literature about medical ethics, presented in a symposium on Ethical Issues, at the 15th International Scientific Meeting, International Epidemiological Association, Florence, Italy, August 31, 1999 The languages of epidemiology, presented at international meeting of TEPHINET, Ottawa, April 17, 2000 Wanted: several more earth-sized planets. Interview, published in Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 79:9:896- 897, 2001 Landmarks in the history of public health, presented at Centennial conference, Usher Institute of Public Health, University of Edinburgh, 2002 Lessons from the history of public health, keynote address to 40th anniversary national congress, Turkish Public Health Association, Ankara, Turkey, 2004 ‘The Last Word’ Interview on present and future global environmental and health problems with Neil Arya MD, published in Alternatives, 31:3:8-9, 2005 Many seminars, lectures and similar presentations to various university departments, etc, not included in this list
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