East-West Center Research Program Seminar

March 9, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Mānoa Campus, East-West Center, Burns Hall Room 3012

The Epidemiological Transition and the Double Burden of Disease: International and Pacific Island Perspectives


Richard Taylor
Professor of Public and International Health


University of New South Wales


This presentation will address the evolution of the epidemiological transition from inception in the early 20th century to the present in developed countries of Europe, North America and Australasia, compared to countries of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and developing countries (with particular reference to Pacific Island States); addressing relationships of non-communicable disease (NCD) with premature adult mortality and life expectancy. The ‘double burden of disease’, a phrase first used in the 1990s, will be considered with comparisons of the present situation in Pacific Island States to previous circumstances in countries such as Australia and the United States. Lessons will be drawn from evident successes and failures over time in NCD control in national and sub-national populations


Dr. Richard Taylor is Professor of Public and International Health, Director of Human Resources for Health (HRH) Knowledge Hub, and Coordinator of the Master of International Health Public Health Program, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales. He graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney, trained as a physician and completed the course on Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the London School. He served as the Epidemiologist at the Secretariat for the Pacific Community (South Pacific Commission) during the 1980’s and served on the faculty of the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney and was Professor of International Health at the University of Queensland. He is involved in a number of international and national research studies and the author of over 400 publications many of which address the epidemiological transition and non-communicable disease epidemiology and control in the Australian, Pacific Island and international context.


Event Sponsor
Co-sponsored by East-West Center Research Program, University of Hawaii Department of Public Health Studies and the Center for Pacific Island Studies, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Laura Moriyama, 944-7444, Laura.Moriyama@EastWestCenter.org

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