Sir Edward Ford Becomes Ninth Dean of the Faculty in 1952
From Faculty of Medicine Online Museum and Archive
Sir Edward Ford took up the Deanship of the Faculty in 1952, succeeding Sir Harold Dew. Already a key figure in public health and tropical medicine, at the outbreak of World War II, Edward Ford had enlisted in the AIF as Commanding Officer of the First Australian Mobile Bacteriological Laboratory in the Middle East.
By 1946 he was Director of Hygiene, Pathology and Entomology for the Australian Military Forces. For these services he was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1945. After the war he returned to the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at the University of Sydney as Director and became Professor of Preventative Medicine. Sir Edward Ford was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine for five years.
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