David Morley (paediatrician)
| David Cornelius Morley | |
|---|---|
| Born |
15 May 1923 Rothwell, Northamptonshire, UK |
| Died | 2 July 2009 (aged 86) Weymouth, Dorset, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Medicine, paediatrics |
| Alma mater | Clare College, Cambridge, St Thomas's Hospital |
| Notable students | Natividad Relucio-Clavano |
| Known for | Championing child health in developing countries |
| Notable awards | King Faisal International Prize, CBE, Dawson Williams Memorial Prize, James Spence medal, Maurice Pate Leadership for Children award |
Professor David Morley CBE (15 June 1923 – 2 July 2009) DM FRCP was a British paediatrician and Emeritus Professor of Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health who saved the lives of many thousands of children in developing countries.
David Cornelius Morley was born on 15 June 1923 in Rothwell, Northamptonshire in the UK. He was the youngest of seven children born to a vicar and his wife. He attended school at Haywards Heath and then Marlborough College.
Morley read Natural Sciences at Clare College, Cambridge and completed his undergraduate education at St Thomas's Hospital, from where he qualified in medicine in 1947. He then undertook military service in Singapore (now Malaysia).
In 1951 Morley took a junior hospital post in Sunderland, and then in 1953 moved to Newcastle where he worked with James Spence and Donald Court.
Then in 1956 Morley moved to Ilesha, Nigeria, where he took up a research post at a Methodist hospital (the Wesley Guild Hospital) and first became interested in measles and growth monitoring. In 1973 he wrote of Nigeria "Three quarters of our population are rural, yet three quarters of our medical resources are spent in the towns where three quarters of our doctors live; three quarters of the people die from diseases which could be prevented at low cost, and yet three quarters of medical budgets are spent on curative services." He found that low-cost healthcare initiatives within the community were more effective in treating infant mortality than hospital treatment, work that has influenced governments and agencies globally.
In 1961, Morley returned to the UK and took up a post at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and then in 1964 moved to the Institute of Child Health where he set up the Tropical Child Health Unit (now the UCL Institute for Global Health), the World Health Organization/UNICEF course for senior teachers of child health, and diploma and masters' courses in mother and child health and disability studies.
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