Janet McCalman AC, FAHA, FASSA is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in the Centre for Health Equity in the Melbourne School of Population & Global Health, at the University of Melbourne. She is an historian who specialises in historical population health, and the author of Struggletown (1984), Journeyings (1993) and Sex and Suffering: women health and a women's hospital (1998).
Experience
–present
Professor, Centre for Health & Society, University of Melbourne
Education
1975
Australian National University, PhD (History)
Publications
2011
Colonial health transitions: Aboriginal and 'poor white' infant mortality compared, 1850-1910, The History of the Family, 16, 62-77.
2010
'The Good Life": what about the children?, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 45(1) 90-100
2009
Colonialism & the health transition: Aboriginal Australians & poor whites compared, 1850-1985, The History of the Family, 14, 253-265
Grants and Contracts
2011
Land & Life: Aborigines, Convicts in Immigrants in colonial Victoria: