Professor Peter A. Leggat, AM, ADC, JP, MD Qld, PhD SAust, DrPH JCU, FAFPHM RACP, FFPH RCP(UK), FPHAA, FACTM, FFTM FFEWM ACTM, FFTM RCPSG, FISTM, FACAsM, FACRRM, FAIHS, FACE, FAICD, FRAS, FRGS, FRSTMH, Dist.Int.FASTMH, Hon.FFPM RCP(UK), Hon.FACTM, Hon.FFTM ACTM, Hon.MSASTM, Hon.MNZSTM, WSO-CSE/CSM/CSS(OSH)/CSSD, ChOHSP (Aust), ISTM-CTH, is currently Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus, World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Vector-borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases (AUS-131; designated in 2017), College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University (JCU), Australia. He is also Director, World Safety Organization (WSO) Collaborating Centre with nodes in Disaster Health, Resilience and Emergency Response; Aerospace and Travel Health and Safety; and Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (Co-Director). He served as an elected staff member on the JCU Council from 2005-18. Professor Leggat then served on Academic Board from 2018 to 2023 and was appointed Deputy Chairperson from 2020 to 2023.

Qualifications

Professor Leggat graduated with a Bachelor of Medical Science with Distinction [BMedSc with Dist.(Hons 1)] and with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB BS) from the University of Queensland (World Top 50). He completed a Graduate Diploma of Education (Tertiary) from the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education (now University of Southern Queensland). He then undertook postgraduate studies at various universities abroad, including Mahidol University (Graduate Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; Most Outstanding Alumnus, 2006, Faculty of Tropical Medicine), the University of Dundee (Master of Medical Education) and the University of Otago (Postgraduate Diploma of Industrial Health, Master of Public Health, Postgraduate Certificiate of Aeromedical Evacuation, Master of Health Science in Aviation Medicine). He then completed a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of South Australia (occupational health), a Doctor of Public Health at James Cook University and a Higher Doctorate of Medicine at the University of Queensland (in Medicine). He has specialised in General Practice and Public Health Medicine (AHPRA MED0001374599), as well as Tropical Medicine (Australian Defence Force - Medical Level 4). He holds Fellowships in various relevant professional organisations. He is also certified in aerospace medicine, travel medicine, and workplace health and safety. As part of his Fulbright Scholarship, he completed the Primary Care Faculty Development Fellowship Program at Michigan State University, USA. He holds several postgraduate qualifications in tertiary education and was elected a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators in 2007. Professor Leggat was one of 50 ranked in The Educator Higher Education Hot List 2020.

Experience

Professor Leggat has nearly four decades of experience in medicine and higher education in Australia and Internationally. At JCU, throughout his academic career, he has variously been seconded to the positions of Deputy Head of School, Head of School, Academic Advisor, Faculty Associate Dean, Deputy Dean of College and Dean of College. He has worked in or had sustained contributions in various countries including Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand, Timor Leste and USA (Fulbright Scholarship), as well as having consulted, advised or undertaken research in India, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Saudi Arabia. He also holds Adjunct Professorships at seven universities in four countries. He has had a strong commitment throughout his career to enhancing participation in postgraduate education, broadening flexible learning opportunities, and fostering strong links between universities and industry. He has consulted with various organisations, including the Australian Defence Force (ADF), the Therapeutic Goods Administration (Australia) and the WHO. He also serves as a Registered Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Australia) Expert and undertakes similar roles in Saudia Arabia with the National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Evaluation and also for the Department of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology in PNG. Recent major grants he has been involved with includes a grant from the US Department of Defence optimising prosthesis / residuum fit (through QUT; $526,000; completed). He is an Associate Investigator on a Tropical Australian Academic Health Centre grant for a study on "How can referral and access models of cardiac rehabilitation in rural and remote areas in North Queensland be Improved?" (JCU; $34,884; completed). He is also a co-investigator on an Emergency Medicine Foundation grant on "Emergency Department Treatment of the Drowning Victim" (SCUHS; $91,468 Excl. GST).

Publication Highlights

Professor Leggat has published more than 575 journal papers (>9000 citations; h-index=45; i10-index=171; i100-index=15) and more than 100 chapters, as well as more than 35 books, directories and proceedings. His most recently published books are COVID-19: Current Status and Future Prospects (MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, 2023); COVID-19: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives (MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, 2022), Tourist Health, Safety and Wellbeing in the New Normal (Springer, Singapore, 2021) Neglected and Emerging Tropical Diseases in South and Southeast Asia and Northern Australia (MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, 2018) and Essential Travel Medicine (Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2015). He holds a number of editorial board appointments with professional journals, including Industrial Health (Editor), Journal of Military and Veterans' Health (Associate Editor) and Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (Deputy Editor-in-Chief). He is currently lead Editor on a Special Issue titled COVID-19: Current Situation and Future Trends (closing 31 December 2023). He has also presented more than 450 papers at national and international conferences. He has presented several special lectures including the 60th Ernest Sandford Jackson Memorial Lecture of the Australian Medical Association in 2008 and the Inaugural Robert Steffen Lecture of the Faculty of Travel Medicine (FTM), The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (ACTM), in 2016. He was a semi-Plenary speaker for the 33rd International Congress on Occupational Health, held from 6-10 February 2022. He was a Member, International Scientific Advisory Board, 20th International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 24-28 October 2022.

Professional Service

Professor Leggat is an experienced not-for-profit company director over more than 35 years and was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors in 1991. His current Board (Non-Executive Director) appointments include the International Society of Travel Medicine (formerly Secretary-Treasurer, 2013-19; President-Elect, 2019-21; President, 2021-23; and currently Immedate Past President, 2023-25), The Australasian College of Aerospace Medicine (Dean of Education, 2013-; Acting CPD Director, 2023-) and WSO (formerly Director-General, 1997-99) He is also the ACTM Immediate Past President, 2022- (formerly President, 1996-98, 2002-04; 2006-08, 2016-18 and 2020-22); and a member of the Expanded Board of the International Federation for Tropical Medicine. He also holds appointments with the FTM (Immediate Past Dean, 2020-) of the ACTM and the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (Council) of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He has served as an Inaugural Fulbright Ambassador (2016-18) and is a current Fulbright Alumni Advisor. He was awarded a Certificate of Distinguished Service as a Justice of the Peace in Queensland with more than 25 years service. He has also been a Member of the permanent International Commission on Occupational Health since 2010 and is currently also a member of a Core Technical Team for the International Labour Organization. Professor Leggat has conducted more than 100 media releases and interviews with national and international radio and television broadcasters, including Fox 5 Washington DC, and with newspapers resulting in articles appearing in most Australia national and many Queensland regional newspapers, as well as international newspapers, such as The Express in the UK, and The Conversation.

Honours and Awards

Professor Leggat has been the recipient of more than 100 major national and international awards (selected recent Commonwealth awards are given under Honours), including admission as a Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2013 and promotion to Knight of Grace of the Order of St John in the annual Admissions and Promotions List 2021. Professor Leggat's contributions have been internationally recognised, including being a four-time recipient of the WSO Glenn E. Hudson International Award (formerly the WSO International Award until 2010) in 2008, 2010, 2014 and 2020 and the Royal Life Saving Society Commonwealth Diploma in 2018. He has been elected as an Honorary Fellow of several professional organisations, including the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians (UK) in 2014 and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2020 (Distinguished International Fellow). For the past 10 years (2014-23), he has also been appointed as an Australia Day Ambassador annually in support of the Queensland Government and the National Australia Day Council (see 2023 Ambassadors; learn more). With more than 30 years experience in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, as Colonel, he was appointed as an Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia in 2019.

Teaching

• TM5501: Tropical Medicine (Level 5; TSV)
• TM5502: Tropical Public Health (Level 5; TSV)
• TM5512: Travel Medicine (Level 5; TSV)
• TM5525: Communicable Disease Control (Level 5; TSV)
• TM5578: Emerging Public Health Threats (Level 5; TSV)
• TM5581: Expedition and Wilderness Medicine (Level 5; TSV)

Interests

Professional

• WSO Collaborating Centre for Disaster Health, Resilience and Emergency Response, Director, 2008-: WHO Emergency Operations Centres Network (EOC-NET), Member, 2015-; Inspector-General - Emergency Management, Qld Government, Disaster Management Research framework, Research Advisory Panel, 2019-; WHO Expert, Lessons Management for Mass Gathering Planning, Preparedness and Evaluation, 2019; Associate, Torrens Resilience Institute, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, 2015; Geospatial and Space Applications in Disasters (UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER), 2009-; Disaster resilience.
• WSO Collaborating Centre for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, co-Director, 2008-: WSO Board of Directors, various from 1989, including 2019-; Former WSO Director-General, 1997-99; World Safety Person of the Year, 1988; Queensland Injury Prevention Council, Queensland Government, 2008-12 (Deputy Chair, 2012); International Commission on Occupational Health, Working Group on Occupational Infectious Agents, 2010-; International Labour Organization, Core Techical Team, Techical Guidelines on Occupational Exposure to Biological Hazards, 2020-; Military medicine and rehabilitation; Certifications: ChOHSP (AIHS); WSO-CSE/CSM/CSS/CSSD; MRO
• WSO Collaborating Centre for Aerospace and Travel Health and Safety, Director, 2009-: ISTM, President, 2021-, Secretary-Treasurer, 2013-19, President-Elect, 2019-21, Executive Board, 2003-05, 2013-, Foundation Member, 1991-; Fellow, 2016-; ACTM, FTM, Immediate Past Dean, 2020-, Dean, 2016-20; New Zealand Society of Travel Medicine, Honorary Member; Australian Travel Health Advisory Group, Member, 2004-, Honorary Secretary, 2010-; PGCTravelMed (JCU); ISTM-CTH; Australasian College of Aerospace Medicine, Dean of Education, 2013-; International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine, Academician, 2016-; CASA, Designated Aviation Medical Examiner, 2001-; CASA, Medical Review Officer, 2008-; Aeromedical Society of Australia, Member, 2003- (AME-RW); PGCAME, MHSc (AvMed) (Otago); GCAstro (JCU); GCAsM (Griffith).
• Public Health and Pharmaceutical Medicine: Therapeutic Goods Evaluation; Clinical Trials; Council Member, Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 2020-.
• Research Governance: Not-for-profit Governance; Bioethics; Human Research Ethics Committees: JCU HREC, 1994-2010, Chair, 2003-10; JCU Ethics Review Committee, 2010-12, Chair, 2010-12; St John Ambulance Australia HREC, 2011-present; Deputy Chair, 2011-13; Chair, 2013-Present; JCU Designated Advisor for Research Intregrity, 2008-16.

Research

• WHO Collaborating Centre for Vector-borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases, Co-Director, 2017-: JCU Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, Member, 2016- ; ACTM, President, 1996-98, 2002-04, 2006-08, 2016-18, 2020-; American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Distinguished International Fellow, 2020-; New York Academy of Sciences, Life Member, 1985- ; Disaster resilience.

Teaching

• Health Professional Education: Practice of academagogy [a 'meshed' model of pedagogy (method and practice of teaching), andragogy (adult education) and heutagogy (self-determined learning)], which allows for flexibility in teaching by using a variety of methods. Currently focusing on Health Workforce Development; Public Health and Tropical Medicine; Communicable disease control; Travel, Diving and Expedition Medicine; and postgraduate health professional education. Professional: Fellow of the Australian College of Educators. Experience: nearly 40 years in tertiary education, which currently sits within requirements for the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency; >12 years experience in training as Director of Training (Qld) and Director of Training (National) for St John Ambulance Australia, which sits within the requirements for the Australian Skills Quality Authority.

Experience

• 2023 to present - Director-Emeritus, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Vector-borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases (AUS-131), College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2023 to present - Professor Emeritus, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2017 to present - Medical Officer, Australian Army, Defence Health Service (Army Reserve, Standby Reserves, DCWM-A, Canberra, 2017- ; Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, 2019- .)
• 2008 to present - Director, World Safety Organizaton Collaborating Centres for Aerospace and Travel Health and Safety (2008-), Disaster Health, Resilience and Emergency Response (Director, 2008-), and Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (co-Director, 2008-), James Cook University (Australia)
• 2007 to present - Professor (Promotional Chair), College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences (from 2014); School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences (2007-2014), James Cook University (Australia)
• 1997 to present - Justice of the Peace (Qualified), Department of Justice and Attorney-General, Queensland Government, Australia (Townsville, Australia)
• 2023 - Adjunct Professor, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Science, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2020 to 2023 - Deputy Chair, Academic Board, James Cook University (Australia)
• 2018 to 2023 - Member, Academic Board, James Cook University (Australia)
• 2017 to 2023 - co-Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Vector-borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases (AUS-131), College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University (Australia)
• 2022 - Chair, Academic Board, James Cook University (Australia)
• 2016 to 2017 - Deputy Dean, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2016 to 2017 - Head, Public Health and Tropical Medicine, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 1999 to 2017 - Medical Officer, RAAMC, Reserves [Lieutenant Colonel (O-5), 1999-2013; Colonel (O-6), 2013- ], Australian Army, Defence Health Service (Army Reserve, Active, HSRA-Q, Brisbane; DHSAR, Brisbane; 3HSB Sydney; CAG-HQ, 3HSB, Adelaide, 1999-2017.)
• 2014 to 2016 - Dean, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences (seconded/Acting), James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2008 to 2016 - Visiting Medical Officer (Part-time), Lavarack Barracks Health Centre, Aspen Medical (Townsville)
• 1996 to 2016 - Tropical Disease Specialist, 1996-2016; Co-Director, 2016; Director, 2016, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Lymphatic Filariasis, Soil-transmitted Helminths and Neglected Tropical Diseases (AUS-68), James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2015 - Panel Member, Review of Public Health Emergency Operations Centres, World Health Organization (Cairns, Australia)
• 2013 to 2014 - Head, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences (seconded/Acting), James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2007 to 2014 - Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Molecular Sciences, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2011 to 2013 - Deputy Head (Campus Head), School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2011 to 2013 - Head, Discipline of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2011 to 2012 - Director of Research Training, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2011 to 2012 - Director, Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2008 to 2012 - Queensland Injury Prevention Council (Member, 2008-12; Deputy Chair, 2012), Queensland Health (Brisbane)
• 2007 to 2010 - Head, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences (seconded/Acting), James Cook University (Townsville)
• 1997 to 2009 - Academic Advisor, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Molecular Sciences, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 1992 to 2008 - Visiting Medical Officer (Part-time), Department of Defence (Townsville)
• 2007 - Short Term Consultant, World Health Organization (Putrajaya, Malaysia)
• 1999 to 2006 - Associate Professor, Anton Breinl Centre, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 2000 - Medical Officer, RAAMC (Lieutentant Colonel, O-5), United Nations Transitional Authority in East Timor, Australian Regular Army (Dili, East Timor)
• 1997 to 2000 - Deputy Head, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 1999 - Temporary Advisor, World Health Organization (Pune, India)
• 1992 to 1998 - Senior Lecturer, Anton Breinl Centre, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 1992 to 1998 - Medical Officer, RAAMC, Australian Army, Defence Health Service (Army Reserve, Inactive Reserves)
• 1995 to 1997 - Associate Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 1991 - Honorary Consultant, Anton Breinl Centre, James Cook University (Townsville)
• 1987 to 1991 - Medical Officer, RAAMC (Lieutenant, O-2, 1987-88; Captain, O-3, 1988-91; Officer Commanding Clinical Services (O-4 position), 1991), Australian Regular Army (DSU, Brisbane; Repatriation General Hospital, Brisbane; 2FD AMB, 3BASB, 2/4 RAR (TDY), 4 FD REGT (TDY), 3/4 CAV (TDY), Townsville; 1RTB Kapooka, Wagga Wagga)
• 1990 - Medical Officer, RAAMC (Captain, O-3, 1990), Australian Regular Army (Australian Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand)
• 1988 to 1989 - Medical Officer, Repatriation General Hospital, Department of Veterans Affairs (Brisbane)
• 1984 to 1989 - NHMRC Medical Undergraduate Scholarship, 1984-85 (Honours); Clinical Tutor, Research Assistant (Part-time), 1985-89; AMSA-AMA J.G. Hunter Research Fellowship (Part-time), 1985; Lecturer (sessional), 1986-87, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Queensland (Brisbane)
• 1986 to 1987 - Summer Research Scholarship, Department of Primary Care and Community Medicine, Flinders University of South Australia (Adelaide)

Research Disciplines

• Public health (4206)
• Health services and systems (4203)
• Epidemiology (4202)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Public health (2004)

Awards

• 2021 - Knight of Grace of the Order of St John, Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. C2021G00751
• 2020 - Gold Commendation, St John Ambulance Australia
• 2020 - Second Silver Bar to the Service Medal of the Order of St John, Commonwealth of Australia
• 2017 - First Silver Bar to the Service Medal of the Order of St John, Commonwealth of Australia
• 2016 - Commander of the Order of St John, Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. C2016G01262
• 2013 - Returned from Active Service Badge, No. 0398/13, Commonwealth of Australia
• 2013 - Australian Active Service Medal (with Clasp East Timor), Commonwealth of Australia
• 2013 - Member of the Order of Australia, Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. C2013G00848
• 2012 - Service Medal of the Order of St John, Commonwealth of Australia
• 2011 - Silver Commendation, St John Ambulance Australia
• 2011 - Officer of the Order of St John, Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. C2011GN41S151
• 2011 - 2010 - 2011 Queensland Flood and Cyclone Citation, Governor-of-Queensland-in-Council
• 2007 - Australian Defence Medal for Service, Commonwealth of Australia

Fellowships

• 2020 - Distinguished International Fellow, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• 2016 - Fellow, International Society of Travel Medicine (E.B., 2003-5, 2013-; NewsSh Ed, 2010-2; L.C., 2010-2, 2013-; Fin Com, 2013-; Sc Prog O/S Com, 2013-23; Sec-Treas, 2013-9; President-Elect, 2019-21; President, 2021-23; Immediate Past President, 2023-25)
• 2015 - Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Travel Medicine, The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
• 2014 - Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society (UK) (PoC, Point of Contact, Australia, 2016-)
• 2014 - Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine, Royal Colleges of Physicians (UK)
• 2012 - Fellow, The Australasian College of Aerospace Medicine (Board, 2013-; Dean of Education, 2013-)
• 2012 - Fellow, Public Health Association of Australia (Foundation Member 1985-2012; Fellow, 2012-), formerly ANSEARCH/APHA & PHAANZ
• 2011 - Honorary Fellow, The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (Immediate Past President, 1998-9, 2004-5, 2008-9, 2018-9, 2022-)
• 2011 - Fellow, Faculty of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine of The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (Joint Faculties Registrar, 2011-)
• 2011 - Fellow (Through Distinction), Faculty of Public Health, Royal Colleges of Physicians (UK)
• 2008 - Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (UK)
• 2007 - Fellow, Australian College of Educators
• 2006 - Fellow, Faculty of Travel Medicine, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow (UK)
• 2001 - Fellow, Faculty of Travel Medicine of The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (Chair, 1999-2001; Acting Chair, 2014-15; Chair, 2015-16; Dean, 2016-2020; Immediate Past Dean, 2000- ; Joint Faculties Registrar, 2011-)
• 1998 - Fellow, The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
• 1998 - Fellow, Australian Institute of Health and Safety (formerly Safety Institute of Australia) (College of Fellows, 2005- ; Chartered Generalist OHS Professional, 2015- )
• 1995 - Fellow, The Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) (AFPHM, Queensland Exec. Comm., 2007-12; RACP rep., Australian Space Agency, 2019-21; AFPHM Council 2020-; RACP COVID-19 Expert Ref. Group, 2022-)
• 1992 - Fellow, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• 1991 - Fellow, Australian Institute of Company Directors [Company Directors Diploma; GDipCDA (UNE)]
• 1991 - Fellow, Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (Council, 1991-; President, 1996-8, 2002-4, 2006-8, 2016-8, 2020-2; Vice-President, 2000-1; President-Elect, 2001-2, 2005-6, 2015-6, 2020 ; Honorary Secretary, 1991-6, 1999-2000; Hon. Treasurer, 2008-15)

Memberships

• 2022 - Panel of Experts, Department of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, Papua New Guinea.
• 2022 - Reviewer, National Center for Academic Accreditation and Evaluation, Saudi Arabia
• 2022 - Expanded Board, International Federation for Tropical Medicine.
• 2022 - Expert Reviewer, National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Evaluation, Saudia Arabia
• 2021 - South African Society of Travel Medicine (Honorary Member)
• 2020 - Core Technical Team, Technical Guidelines on Occupational Exposures to Biological Hazards, International Labour Organization
• 2019 - Research Advisory Panel, Inspector-General Emergency Management, Queensland Government, Australia
• 2018 - Panel of Experts, Tertiary Education and Quality and Standards Agency, Commonwealth of Australia
• 2016 - Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Australia
• 2016 - International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine (Academician and Medal)
• 2016 - Editorial Board, Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, MDPI - Official Journal of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (Deputy Editor-in-Chief, 2016-)
• 2015 - Public Health Emergency Operations Centre Network (EOC-NET), World Health Organization
• 2014 - Advisory Committee, Centre of Emergency and Disaster Management, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
• 2014 - Royal Society of Queensland
• 2014 - International Association for Education in Ethics
• 2011 - International Society for Infectious Disease (Certified EpiCore Member, 2016-)
• 2010 - International Commission on Occupational Health (Member, Working Group on Occupational Infectious Diseases, 2010-)
• 2009 - South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (Diving Medical Examiner)
• 2008 - St John Amb. Aust. [Med. Exp. Panel, 2008-11; Med. Adv. Panel, 2011-9; Dep. Chair, HREC, 2011-3; Chair, HREC, 2013-; Dep. Dir. Trg, 2011-3; Priory Hon. & Awards Comm., 2013-9; Chair, Clin. Gov. Comm., 2019-21; Dir. Trg, 2013-9; Board, 2014-21]
• 2008 - Medical Review Officer (Medical Review Officers Certification Council, 2008-2015; Australasian Medical Review Officers Association, 2016-)
• 2007 - Aeromedical Society of Australasia [formerly International Society for Aeromedical Services (Australasia)] -retrieval medicine
• 2006 - Editorial Board, Journal of Military and Veteran's Health (Associate Editor, 2008-)
• 2006 - Editorial Board, Industrial Health (Editor, 2006-)
• 2005 - Evaluation Panel (Drug Safety and Evaluation), Therapeutic Goods Administration, Australia
• 2004 - Travel Health Advisory Group, Australia, The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (Member, 2004-; Honorary Secretary, 2010-)
• 2003 - Associate, College of Public Health Medicine, Colleges of Medicine of South Africa
• 2003 - Phi Beta Delta Honour Society for International Scholars
• 2003 - Australasian Society for Aerospace Medicine
• 2002 - Golden Key International Honour Society
• 2001 - Designated Aviation Medical Examiner, Civil Aviation Safety Authority
• 2000 - International Association for Dental Research
• 2000 - St John Amb. Aust., Qld [Med. Officer (MO), 2000-1; Reg. MO, 2001-8; SMO, 2008-10; SPO, 2010-4; Res., Gde 1, 2015-6; Retd, 2016; Chair, Trg Br./Dir. Trg, 2008-16; Board, 2008-17; Med Pol. Comm., 2016-7; Fin., Risk & Comp. Comm., 2016-7; Council, 2018-]
• 1999 - Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (Member)
• 1997 - New Zealand Society of Travel Medicine (Honorary Member)
• 1992 - Parasitology and Tropical Medicine Association of Thailand (Life Member)
• 1991 - International Society of Travel Medicine (Foundation Member)
• 1991 - Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (Life Member)
• 1987 - Australasian Epidemiological Association (Foundation Member)
• 1986 - World Safety Organization (Life Member; WSO-CSM/CSS, 1986-, WSO-CSE, 1987-; WSO-CSSD, 1988); Board, 1989-99, 2003-10, 2012-18; 2019- ; Deputy Director-General, 1993-97; Director-General, 1997-99)
• 1985 - New York Academy of Sciences (Life Member; NYAS Ambassador, 2018; 2019; 2020; 2021)
• 2020 to 2023 - OzCABS Group: Australian Chairs and Secretaries of Academic Boards and Senates
• 2020 to 2023 - UniSuper Consultative Committee (Academic Staff Representative)
• 2020 to 2023 - Australasian University Safety Association
• 2018 to 2023 - Academic Board, James Cook University, Australia (Quality Portfolio, 2018-20 ; Microcredentialling Working Group, 2019-; Deputy Chair, 2020-)
• 2020 to 2021 - Australian Resuscitation Council, Council Representative (ARC, Council representative, 2014-15; 2020-21)
• 2017 to 2020 - Military Matters Working Group (formerly DTHM Military Matters Working Group), James Cook University, Australia
• 2015 to 2019 - ISTM Foundation (Board member, 2015-19; Secretary-Treasurer, 2015-19)
• 2014 to 2018 - Editorial Board, Pharmaceuticals (Editor, Special Issue, Tropical Medicine, 2010; 2014)
• 2014 to 2018 - 16th Council, James Cook University [Finance Committee, 2014-17; Controlled Entities Sub-Committee, 2014-2016 (Deputy Chair, 2014-2016); Working Group of Council, 2015-18; Ceremonial and Honorary Degrees Committee, 2017-18]
• 2008 to 2016 - Editorial Board, Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health (Consulting Editor, 2008-)
• 2012 to 2015 - Queensland Council for Injury Prevention (Deputy Chair, 2012-15)
• 2009 to 2014 - 15th Council, James Cook University (Finance Committee, 2009-12; Strategy Committee, 2012-14)
• 2008 to 2014 - Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation, Grant Advisory Committee (Chair, 2011-14)
• 2000 to 2013 - Editorial Board, Journal of Travel Medicine (Book Review Editor, 2003-09; Deputy Editor-in-Chief, 2009-11)
• 2012 - National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia), Grant Review Panel
• 2010 to 2012 - Ethics Review Committee (Chair, 2010-12)
• 2008 to 2012 - Queensland Injury Prevention Council
• 2002 to 2012 - Editorial Board, Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease (Editorial Advisor, 2003-10)
• 2010 - Australian Research Council, Excellence in Research Australia, Research Evaluation Committee
• 1994 to 2010 - Human Research Ethics Committee, James Cook University (Chair, 2004-10)
• 2009 - National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia), Grant Review Panel
• 2005 to 2009 - 14th Council, James Cook University [(JCUS Sub-Committee, 2005-06; Ceremonial Honorary Doctorates Committee, 2005-09 (Deputy Chair, 2006-09)]

Other

• 2023 - Adjunct Professor, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville.
• 2021 - Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
• 2020 - Adjunct Professor, School of Pharmacy, Monash University, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia
• 2018 - Adjunct Professor, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
• 2015 - Honorary Professor, School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Malaysia.
• 2015 - Associate, Torrens Resilience Institute, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• 2013 - Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
• 2013 - Fellow, Centre for Emergency and Disaster Management, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia
• 2002 - Fellow, St Margaret's College, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
• 2000 - Visiting Professor, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2015 - Inaugural Mindset Scholarship, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus
• 2002 to 2003 - Fulbright Scholarship. Australian-American Fulbright Commission (Michigan State University, Civil Aerospace Medical Institute, and the American Management Association International)

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Journal Articles

• Bhuvan K, Alrasheedy A, Leggat P, Ibrahim M, Christopher C, Sapkota B and Shrestha S (2023) Types and outcomes of pharmacist-managed travel health services: A systematic review. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 51.
• Lam A, Yau M, Franklin R and Leggat P (2023) Voices from parents on the sexuality of their child with intellectual disabilities: a socioemotional perspective in a Chinese context. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 51 (1). pp. 13-23
• Roberts K, Thom O, Devine S, Leggat P and Franklin R (in press) A focus on sex differences in drowning deaths in Australia: the need for reporting on sex and gender in drowning research. Journal of Public Health,
• Steffen R, Chen L and Leggat P (in press) Travel vaccines - priorities determined by incidence and impact. Journal of Travel Medicine,
• Thom O, Roberts K, Leggat P, Devine S, Peden A and Franklin R (2023) Cervical spine immobilisation is only required in drowning patients at high risk of axial loading of the spine. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 35 (1). pp. 18-24
• Bhuvan K, Alrasheedy A, Leggat P, Molugulu N, Ibrahim M, Khatiwada A and Shrestha S (2022) Pharmacies in the airport ecosystem and how they serve travelers' health and medicines need: findings and implications for the future. Integrated Pharmacy Research and Practice, 11. pp. 9-19
• Field P, Franklin R, Barker R, Ring I and Leggat P (2022) Cardiac rehabilitation in rural and remote areas of North Queensland: how well are we doing? Australian Journal of Rural Health, 30 (4). pp. 488-500
• Field P, Franklin R, Barker R, Ring I, Leggat P and Canuto K (2022) Importance of cardiac rehabilitation in rural and remote areas of Australia. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 30 (2). pp. 149-163
• Lam A, Yau M, Franklin R and Leggat P (2022) Challenges in the delivery of sex education for people with intellectual disabilities: A Chinese cultural-contextual analysis. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 35 (6). pp. 1370-1379
• Lam A, Yau M, Franklin R and Leggat P (2022) People with intellectual disabilities struggle to have a sexual encounter: a Chinese cultural context investigation. Sexuality and Disability, 40. pp. 245-260
• Mason H, Randall J, Leggat P, Voaklander D and Franklin R (2022) Comparing rural traffic safety in Canada and Australia: a scoping review of the literature. Rural and Remote Health, 22 (4).
• Mason H, Leggat P, Voaklander D and Franklin R (2022) Road traffic fatalities in rural and remote Australia from 2006 to 2017: The need for targeted action. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 30 (2). pp. 252-263

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 327+ research outputs authored by Prof Peter Leggat from 2000 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• First Responder and Pre-Hospital Treatment of Decompression Sickness (DCS): Oxygen Delivery and Retrieval Considerations (PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
• Climate change and the Incidence of Bacteraemia and Antimicrobial Resistance from Foodborne Pathogens in Queensland, Australia (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Drowning incidence and risk mitigation strategies for migrant populations living in Australia (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Exploring climate-related disaster resilience in aged care (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• The adult drowning victim (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Perils in Paradise: The epidemiology of tourist injuries in Queensland, Australia (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Capacity Building for Periodontal Disease Management in Tonga (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• Gender differences for drowning incidents; exploring differences using the Haddon's matrix (PhD , Advisor Mentor)

Completed

• Tripartite Sexuality Investigation between People with Intellectual Disabilities, Parents and Service Providers in the Chinese social context (2023, PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
• How can access to cardiac rehabilitation in rural and remote areas of North Queensland be improved? (2023, PhD , Advisor Mentor)
• Building the evidence base for river drowning prevention (2019, PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
• Addressing the impact of disasters on public health infrastructure and noncommunicable diseases (2018, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Detecting the unseen: covert tissue changes in lymphatic filariasis and implications for the future of morbidity management (2018, PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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• Douglass, J. (2017) Detecting sub-clinical change in tissue compressibility and free fluid in the lower limbs of young people living in an LF endemic area in Myanmar. James Cook University

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