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Theo MacDonald

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United Kingdom

 Theo died aged 77 in March 2010. An obituary in the Littlehampton Gazette in 2011 describes Theo as academic, trainee priest, national park warden, teacher, builder, musician, doctor, campaigner, prolific writer and devoted family man. Theo participated in the Cuenca IPHU in July 2005.  At that time he was theoretically "retired" (former prof and director of PG Studies in Health at Brunel Uni, London) but still an activist and author. Theo was a member of the Institute of Human Rights and Social Justice at London Metropolitan University. Author of Third World Health: Hostage to First World Wealth (foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu).  Other books (all Radcliffe Publishing, Abingdon, Oxford) include:

o    Health, Trade and Human Rights, 2005

o    The Global Human Right to Health: Dream or Possibility? 2006

o    Introduction to Statistics and Epidemiology, 2006

o    Health, Human Rights and the UN: Inconsistencies & Contradictions

o    To the Highest Bidder: Sacrificing the WHO on the altar of Neoliberalism, 2008

Theo is remembered with great affection and continuing respect by all his comrades in PHM.