Everything about Basil Hetzel totally explained
The Honorable Dr
Basil Hetzel AC (born
1922) is an
Australian medical researcher who has made a major contribution to combating
iodine deficiency, a major cause of
goitre and
cretinism world wide.
Academic career
Hetzel graduated in medicine from the
University of Adelaide in the
1940s. He was held a
Fulbright Research Scholar in the
1950s. He returned to
Adelaide and was employed as Reader and then Michell Professor of Medicine at the
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide,
University of Adelaide before moving to
Monash University as the Foundation Professor of Social and
Preventive Medicine. He also held the position of first chief of the
CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition, Chair of the
University of South Australia's Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, and
University of South Australia Chancellor
1992–
1998,
Research
Hetzel worked in remote areas of
Papua New Guinea with the Public Health Department of the then Territory, and his research concluded that the endemic
goitre and associated
cretinism was attributable to an
iodine deficient diet. He also demonstrated that dietary supplementation would entirely prevent these illnesses.
In the 1980s Hetzel, supported by the
Australian Agency for International Development, became an international advocate for iodine supplementation, which is now taken for granted with iodinated
table salt. This was part of the stimulus for the creation of the
International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders association, which is funded by various government, non-government and community organisations including the
United Nations,
UNICEF, the
World Health Organization, and the
World Bank. It is claimed that iodine supplementation has been achieved in 70% of households worldwide by
2000.
Non-medical career
Hetzel was
Lieutenant Governor of
South Australia from April 1992 - May 2000.
Honours
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