Anton Breinl Anton Breinl Centre Archive. [Archive] (Unpublished)
Summary
The Anton Breinl Centre specialises in research into the public health problems of tropical Australia and its near neighbours. It was established by James Cook University in 1987 as the Tropical Health Surveillance Unit, and in 1997 was re-named the Anton Breinl Centre for Tropical Health and Medicine. This was in recognition of the growing importance of public health training at the Centre. A new teaching annex of the Anton Breinl Centre was completed in 2005, as was the move to the main campus at James Cook University.
The Centre is named after Dr Anton Breinl (1880-1944), the first director of the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, which was established by the University of Sydney in 1909 and located in Townsville. Dr Breinl was director of the Institute from 1910 until 1920. In 1910 he was awarded the Mary Kingsley medal for research in tropical medicine.
From 1987 until 2002 the Anton Breinl Centre had occupied the site of the earlier institute in the grounds of the Townsville General Hospital in North Ward.
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Additional Information
Special Collection items may be used on the Library premises by visiting the appropriate Reading Rooms during opening hours. Digital copies of selected items from this Archive will be made available through the repository as copyright or other restrictions allow.
References
Related publications held in the NQ Collection at James Cook University Library:
Breinl, A. (1914). Port Moresby to Daru: An account of a journey on foot and by canoe. Melbourne, Australia: Department of External Affairs.
James Cook University. (2005). Australian institute of tropical medicine. Townsville, Australia: James Cook University.
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