Publications

• MEDICAL PREPARATION OF EXPEDITIONS
  An expedition can be defined as an organised journey with a purpose. Such a purpose can be: an exploration of a particular location, a mission of academic or scientific research, an endeavour of personal or directed endurance, an investigation of environmental or archaeological concern, or a personal challenge.
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• REMOTE REGION MEDICAL KIT
  Quantities are for a group of ten persons on a six-week high-altitude mountaineering expedition. The list may be useful as a check list when preparing kits for other types of expeditions.
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• FRGS: a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
  Late 2007, and Assoc. Professor Dr Marc Shaw was awarded the title FRGS: a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. This is a huge honour for WORLDWISE. The Royal Geographical Society is a British Learned Society founded in 1830 with the name Geographical Society of London, for the advancement of geographical science, under the patronage of King William IV. It was given a Royal charter by Queen Victoria in 1859.
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• ACTM Medal
  In February 2008 Associate Professor Marc Shaw was awarded the ACTM Medal in Australia. Another huge honour in which we are very proud of at WORLDWISE.

  The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (ACTM) wished to recognise Dr Marc Shaw’s exceptional work in travel medicine with the award of the Inaugural ACTM medal for ‘outstanding assistance to Travel Medicine’.

  This is one of the highest awards that the college can bestow on an individual member and represents the first occasion that the ACTM Medal has been awarded in this field.