Prof David R Brewster

David Brewster is an academic paediatrician with extensive experience in the Pacific Islands (Samoa, PNG, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji), Africa (Zimbabwe, The Gambia, Malawi, Botswana) and the Caribbean (St Lucia) as well as Australia (Sydney, Newcastle, Darwin, Cairns), New Zealand and Canada. He studied Philosophy in Ontario, Quebec and France before graduating in Medicine at the new McMaster University program which initiated problem-based learning. He has spent nearly all of his medical career as a paediatrician in developing countries or working with indigenous children in northern Australia.

This book comes out of his experience as Dean of Fiji School of Medicine from 2005-8. He has also published widely in the biomedical literature on childhood malnutrition, diarrhoeal disease and malaria. He is currently the foundation Professor of Paediatrics at the new medical school at the University of Botswana in southern Africa, where AIDS has a very high prevalence.