A/Prof Lachlan McIver ~ JCU Associate Professor

Dr Lachlan McIver is a rural generalist and public health physician, with over ten years of experience working in remote, indigenous and tropical communities around Australia, Africa, Asia and the Pacific.

Lachlan has a Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery degree from Monash University, a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (with Distinction) from James Cook University and a PhD with The Australian National University.  He is a Fellow of the Australian College of Rural & Remote Medicine, the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine and the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (Royal Australasian College of Physicians).

Lachlan is the Medical Advisor for Infectious Diseases, Epidemic Response and Antimicrobial Resistance for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in their International Office (Access Campaign) in Geneva, Switzerland.  Lachlan is also the Chair of Directors for Rocketship Pacific Ltd – a small global health not-for-profit organisation focused on primary healthcare systems strengthening in developing countries.  

Lachlan's research interests include public health, tropical medicine, infectious diseases, primary healthcare, acute care, indigenous health, disasters, climate change and global health.  

 

Research Disciplines

• Pacific Peoples health and wellbeing (4516)
• Climate change impacts and adaptation (4101)
• Health services and systems (4203)

Awards

• 2012 - International volunteer of the year - Fiji

Fellowships

• 2014 - Research Fellowship - L'institut de recherche pour le developpement (Montpellier, France)
• 2010 - Research Fellowship - Robert Graham Center (Washington D.C., USA)

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Savage A, Bambrick H, McIver L and Gallegos D (2021) Climate change and socioeconomic determinants are structural constraints to agency in diet-related non-communicable disease prevention in Vanuatu: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 21. p. 1231
• Savage A, McIver L and Schubert L (2020) Review: the nexus of climate change, food and nutrition security and diet-related non-communicable diseases in Pacific Island Countries and Territories. Climate and Development Journal, 12 (2). pp. 120-133
• Dawes N, Franklin R, McIver L and Obed J (2019) General and post-disaster mental health servicing in Vanuatu: a qualitative analysis. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 40.
• Dawes N, Franklin R, McIver L and Obed J (2019) Post-disaster mental health servicing in Pacific Island communities: an integrative review. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 38.
• Schubert N, Evans R, Battye K, Sen Gupta T, Larkins S and McIver L (2018) International approaches to rural generalist medicine: a scoping review. Human Resources for Health, 16.
• Agua I, Emeto T and Mclver L (2017) Aspirin for initial treatment and secondary prevention of acute stroke of unknown etiology in resource-constrained settings: a systematic review. European Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine, 5 (1). pp. 546-553
• McIver L, Bowen K, Hanna E and Iddings S (2017) A 'Healthy Islands' framework for climate change in the Pacific. Health Promotion International, 32. pp. 549-557
• McIver L, Imai C, Buettner P, Gager P, Chan V, Hashizume M, Iddings S, Kol H, Raingsey P and Lyne K (2016) Diarrheal diseases and climate change in Cambodia: environmental epidemiology and opportunities for adaptation. Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health, 28 (7). pp. 576-585
• McIver L, Chan V, Bowen K, Iddings S, Hero K and Raingsey P (2016) Review of climate change and water-related diseases in Cambodia and findings from stakeholder knowledge assessments. Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health, 28 (2S). pp. 49S-58S
• McIver L, Hashizume M, Kim H, Honda Y, Pretrick M, Iddings S and Pavlin B (2015) Assessment of climate-sensitive infectious diseases in the Federated States of Micronesia. Tropical Medicine and Health, 43 (1). pp. 29-40

Book Chapters

• McIver L and Hanna E (2015) Fragile paradise: health and climate change in the South Pacific. In: Health of People, Places and Planet: reflections based on Tony McMichael�s four decades of contribution to epidemiological understanding. Australia National University Press, Acton, ACT, Australia, pp. 337-350
• Butler C, Bowles D, McIver L and Page L (2014) Mental health, cognition and the challenge of climate change. In: Climate Change and Global Health. CABI, Wallingford, UK, pp. 251-259

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 23+ research outputs authored by A/Prof Lachlan McIver from 2010 onwards.

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