Skegg, David (Personal Name)

The health of the people, 2019: title page (David Skegg) page 141 (Sir David Skegg is an epidemiogist and public health physician. After training in medicine in New Zealand, he was a Rhodes scholar and then a lecturer in epidemiology at the University of Oxford. Research has been mainly on cancer causes and control, contraceptive and drug safety and reproductive health; has chaired many government bodies including Health Research Council, the Public Health Commission and the Science Board; was also the President of the Royal Society Te Apārangi)