Ruth Bonita
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Ruth Bonita, also known as Ruth Bonita Beaglehole, ONZM is an Australian–New Zealand academic, and is an emeritus professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in stroke. In 2006 she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to medicine. She is also an Honorary Doctor of Medicine at Umea University.
Academic career
Bonita was born and grew up in New South Wales, where her father was the head of a mining rescue service.[1] In 1966 she met Robert Beaglehole on a boat to China, and they married the following year.[1] The couple went to London together in 1970, where Beaglehole trained at Guys and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and then to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where Bonita earned a Masters in Public Health.[1] Bonita then joined the faculty of the University of Auckland. As a research fellow, she became interested in the causes and prevention of strokes, on which there was little research at the time. She led the Auckland Regional Coronary or Stroke (ARCOS) study, which began in 1980.[2] The two-year ARCOS study then became part of the MONICA project (Monitoring the Trends and Determinants of Cardiovascular Disease), a longer-term international multicentre project led by the World Health Organisation.[2] Bonita completed a PhD titled The epidemiology and management of cerebrovascular disease at the University of Auckland in 1985.[3] In 1999 Bonita was invited to become the director of surveillance of non-communicable diseases at WHO in Geneva.[2] This led to an interest in global public health policies, and ways to adapt public health guidelines for lower-income countries.[2] Bonita retired in 2004, and was appointed professor emeritus at the University of Auckland.[4][5]
Honours and awards
In 2006 Bonita was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to medicine.[6] In 1996 she was made an Honorary Doctor of Medicine at Umea University, where she is on the Advisory Board of the Aging and Life Course Programme.[5][7]
Selected works
- Beaglehole, Robert; Bonita, Ruth, eds. (9 July 2009). Global Public Health: A New Era (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191724053.
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References
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- ↑ Bonita Beaglehole, Ruth (1985). The epidemiology and management of cerebrovascular disease (PhD thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/3136.
- ↑ "Professores Emeriti - The University of Auckland". www.calendar.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Biographical sketches: Ruth Bonita, MPH, Ph.D". University of Minnesota.
- ↑ "New Year Honours List 2006 | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC)". www.dpmc.govt.nz. 31 December 2005. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- ↑ Born, Bertil (25 February 2008). "Leading global public health scientists to inaugurate research school and lecture in Umeå". www.umu.se. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
External links
- Robert Beaglehole & Ruth Bonita: Transforming Public Health, 5 Feb 2014 via YouTube