Professor John Vince: a remarkable 5 decades of service to health in Papua New Guinea

Trevor Duke; Cornelia Kilalang; Nakapi Tefuarani; James Amini

doi:10.1071/MJ25004

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Professor John Vince: a remarkable 5 decades of service to health in Papua New Guinea

Trevor Duke

^A ^B ^D ^* , Cornelia Kilalang ^C ^D , Nakapi Tefuarani ^A ^D and James Amini ^C ^D

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^A School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Boroko, NCD, Papua New Guinea.

^B University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, Parkville, Vic, Australia.

^C Paediatric Society of Papua New Guinea, Waigani, NCD, Papua New Guinea.

^D National Department of Health, Waigani, NCD, Papua New Guinea.

^* Correspondence to: trevor.duke@rch.org.au

Papua New Guinea Medical Journal 66, MJ25004 https://doi.org/10.1071/MJ25004

Submitted: 29 May 2025 Accepted: 6 June 2025 Published: 4 July 2025

© 2025 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the Medical Society of Papua New Guinea. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

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