Prof Rick Speare

 
Rick has an extensive history of applied research on communicable diseases, with topics ranging from experimental hookworm infections in humans to global strategies to control chytridiomycosis, a pandemic fungal disease of amphibians. Rick has also been involved in generating evidence to sooth emotionally charged topics such as head lice in primary school children in developed market economies. His eclectic interests add greatly to the capacity, flexibility and adaptability of THS.

Rick comes to THS from a long history of academic activities at James Cook University (JCU). He played a major role in assisting JCU to build public health as a significant discipline with the Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine becoming the hub for public health training for health professionals interested in the tropics.

THS will benefit from Rick’s skills and experience in meeting the educational and professional needs of health professionals interested in tropical diseases.

Rick's current ongoing activities for THS include:

• Company Secretary
• Coordinator of Research and Special Streams at the Mater Campus of the Townsville Clinical School
• Consultant to the East Arnhem Scabies Control Program, a One Disease at a Time initiative.
• Research capacity strengthening at Atoifi Adventist Hospital, Malaita, Solomon Islands.
• Anything that will improve health in the tropics .... and is interesting!

Publications

• Rick has a H-Index using Publish or Perish of 39.
  
• He has 277 publications, made up of 248 papers in peer reviewed journals, 4 books, and 25 book chapters.
• Google Scholar citations
• Rick Speare's publication list
• Travel Bug column in Medical Observer
• February 2013 Beware the bot!
• March 2013. Air pollution: Should I go?
• April 2013 A bite obtained in the bush
• May 2013. Fungal caving risks
• June 2013. Chinese bird flu - H7N9 .
• July 2013. Death traps in foreign lands.
• August 2013. A curious worm.
• September 2013: Don't anger the ancestors.
• October 2013: Leeches
• November 2013: Chickungunya

Klout factor: 38.

Rick Speare's Presentations

• Rick Speare: Opening Address 2012 Australian Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference (Powerpoint presentation).
• Anton Breinl and his legacy.
• David Banks Oration: Biosecurity in North Queensland: Challenges and opportunities - 13 May 2010: i) abstract; ii) presentation
• "Insights from experimentally infecting humans with hookworms". This lecture was given to a weekly research meeting of the Medical Research Council (Gambia) in October 2012.
• The role of veterinary education on zoonoses and emerging diseases. This was an invited presentation at the Animal Health Workshop on Veterinary Education, run by the Hong Kong Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department in Hong Kong on 23-24 January 2013.
• Don't neglect the NTDs!. This was a key note presentation at the Rural Medicine Australia 2013 conference in Cairns 31 October 2013.

Obscure publications:
This page contains publications by Rick that are obscure and difficult to get hold of!

Contact details:
rickspeare@gmail.com
Mobile 0438117817; Int +61 438117817.

Page by Rick Speare - updated 30 November 2013