Stephen Leeder

Stephen Leeder AO FRACP FFPH FAFPHM FRACGP (born 13 December 1941 in Grafton) is an emeritus professor of public health and community medicine at the University of Sydney. where he held the position of dean of Medicine from 1997 to 2002.

Stephen Leeder also holds the positions of adjunct professor of Public Health at the Western Sydney University, adjunct professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York and he is chair of Western Sydney Local Health District Board.

Stephen Leeder was the Editor-In-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia, until he was sacked in 2015 over criticizing the decision to outsource production of the journal to the global publishing giant Elsevier. All but three of the MJA's editorial advisory committee resigned following the decision to sack Leeder, and wrote to AMA president Brian Owler asking him to review the decision.Ken Harvey supported Leeder and said that his sacking, and the use of Elsevier "is a mistake that is fairly irredeemable"

Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) 2006

Royal Australasian College of physicians 1975

UK Faculty of Public Health Medicine 1983

Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine 1991

Australian College of General Practitioners (Hon) 2007

Professor Leeder attended Homebush Boys High School and the University of Sydney where he graduated with honours in medical science in 1964, in medicine in 1966, as a Doctor of Philosophy in 1974 (An epidemiological study of selected factors which may pre-dispose to chronic obstructive lung disease) and as a Doctor of Medicine in 2006 (Studies of factors that affect the lung function of children).

Professor Leeder commenced his career as an intern at Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney in 1966. He has a long history of involvement in public health research, educational development and policy. His research interests as a clinical epidemiologist have been mainly asthma and cardiovascular disease. His interest in public health was stimulated by spending 1968 in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

After post-doctoral experience at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London in (1974–75) and then at McMaster University in Canada (1975–76) he was appointed foundation professor of Community Medicine (1977-1985) at the University of Newcastle, NSW, in 1976 where he remained until the end of 1985. He played a major role in the development of the innovative medical curriculum. He was also the foundation director of the Asian and Pacific Centre for Clinical Epidemiology. The Rockefeller Foundation awarded a grant to the University of Newcastle for the establishment of the Centre as part of the International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN) to develop clinical epidemiologists in the Asian and Pacific Region. Professor Leeder was the director of a large Department of Community Medicine from 1986 – 1996. During his years in Newcastle his research interests were in cardiovascular disease, asthma and tobacco.

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