Australian Public Health Conference 2025

The Basil Hetzel Oration recognises the contribution and commitment to Public Health Research and Advocacy of the Hon Dr Basil Hetzel AC who spent many years working in the international health arena, and is well-known for his work on iodine deficiency disorders. Basil Hetzel was born in London in 1922. He graduated in medicine from the University of Adelaide in 1944. After postgraduate education and research in Adelaide (1945-1951); New York (Fulbright Research Scholar (1951-54); and London (1954-1955), he returned to the University of Adelaide as Reader and later Michell Professor of Medicine (1956-1968). From 1968-1975 he was Foundation Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine at Monash University in Melbourne. He then spent 10 years (1975-1985) with the CSIRO as first Chief of the CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition.