List of publications

Books:

  • The Tomorrow of Malaria. 1996.Published by Pacific Press, Wellington, New Zealand and distributed by the Natural History Book Services in the UK. It was awarded the Pacific Prize by Pacific Press. It went into a second print in 1997. It has been very favourably reviewed in a number of journals including Nature, Parasitology Today, and Medical History.
  • Plague Legends: From the Miasmas of Hippocrates to the Microbes of Pasteur. 2001.
    Published by Science & Humanities Press, Chesterfield, MO, USA.
  • The third ten years of the World Health Organization. 2009. Published by the World Health Organization, Geneva.
    The third ten years of the World Health Organization is a sequel to the previous two volumes. Based almost exclusively on official records and archives from that period, it offers insights into not only the Organization itself but also the political, social and economic background against which many far-reaching health decisions were made. It reflects the first five of the ‘Mahler years’, which saw growing support for the primary health care movement. Thirty years after Alma-Ata, that movement is once again much in evidence; primary health care is again a WHO priority, in a renewed, reinvigorated form.
    This volume will be of great assistance to scholars, historians and researchers and to the many WHO staff members, past and present, who will be able to turn these pages and remember that they, too, were a part of this history.
  • The fourth ten years of the World Health Organization (with the WHO editor).

Articles:

  • 1993:
    • Which Way for malaria control
      and epidemiological services?
      World Health Forum 14: 43-51
  • 1994:
    • Sustainable development is healthy development.
      World Health Forum 15: 193-5
  • 1997:
    • Malaria Control, the Cold War, and the Postwar Reorganization of International Assistance.
      Medical Anthropology, 17 (3): 255-278
    • René J. Dubos and Fred L. Soper: Their Contrasting Views on Vector
      and Disease Eradication.
      Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.
      Autumn: 138-149.
  • 1998:
    • Arnoldo Gabalon’s independent path for malaria control and public health in the Tropics: a lost “paradigm” for WHO.
      Parassitologia 40: 231-238.
  • 2000:
    • Fred L. Soper’s Ignored Criticism of WHO’s Approach to Malaria Eradication.
      Parasitologia 42: 167-172.
  • 2001:
    • William Crawford Gorgas (1854-1920).
      Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Summer: 368-378
  • 2002:
    • The Long and Difficult Road to Alma-Ata: A Personal Reflection.
      International Journal of Health Services, Volume 32, Number 4, Pages 709-732.
    • Malaria Control and the Future of International Public Health
      in Elizabeth Casman and Hadi Dowlatabadi (editors) The Contextual Determinants of Malaria (Washington DC: Resources for the Future)
  • 2003:
    • Charles Dickens and the Movement for Sanitary Reform.
      Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
      Volume 6; number 2 (spring 2003): 183-99.
  • 2004:
    • WHO, PHC and the NGO Community : the Need for a More Focussed Commitment.
      Development journal on Politics of Health, 47(2): 57-63.
      Non Governmental Organization (NGO) support proved critical in helping WHO launch the PHC approach in the mid 1970 s. Enthusiasm for PHC led to a number of WHO/NGO initiatives which showed early promise, but which were not strong enough to survive the onslaught of ‘selective PHC’. Socrates Litsios argues that PHC is too important an idea to let drop & that NGOs have a critical role to play in keeping the PHC spirit alive. He underlines that past experiences need to be carefully reviewed in order to learn how to do better in the future. More importantly, NGOs need to better understand how best to ‘use’ WHO. 1 Figure, 19 References. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications, Ltd., copyright 2004 Society for International Development (www.sidint.org).
    • The Christian Medical Commission and the Development of WHO’s Primary Health Care Approach.
      American Journal of Public Health, November, 94(11): 1884-1893.
  • 2005:
  • 2007:
    • Selskar Gunn and Paul Russell of the Rockefeller Foundation: A Contrast in Styles and Malaria and International Health Organizations
      in Benjamin B Page and David A Valone (editors)
    • Philanthropic Foundations and the Globalization of Scientific Medicine and Public Health
      (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America)
  • 2008:
    • Selskar ‘Mike’ Gunn and Public Health Reform in Europe
      in Iris Borowy and Anne Hardy (editors Of Medicine and Men: Biographies and Ideas in European Social Medicine between World Wars
      (Germany, Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften) 23-43.
  • 2009:
    • The Rockefeller Foundation’s Struggle to Correlate Its Existing Medical Program with Public Health Work in China
      in Iris Borowy, Edito Uneasy Encounters: The Politics of Medicine and Health in China 1900-1937, (Germany, Peter Lang) 177-203.
  • 2010:
  • 2011:
    • John Black Grant – a 20th century public health giant with the editor of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.