Intermed update - January 2026

On 25 April 2025 Emeritus Professor Anthony Radford, the founder of Intermed, went to be with His Lord and Saviour. We celebrate his life and ministry.

Vale Emeritus Professor Anthony Radford (7 May 1937-25 April 2025)

As a medical student Anthony spent some months in the central Highlands of New Guinea, and then, after finishing medical school at the University of Adelaide in 1960, returned to Papua New Guinea with his wife Robin and their three children (Mark, David and Sarah) for a further 10 years. During and after this time, he earned degrees at the University of Liverpool and Harvard University and professional fellowships in the Royal College of Physicians in both London and Edinburgh, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

Throughout his global health career, Anthony has been an academic at Flinders University and consulted for organisations in Australia and many other countries, including the World Health Organization, UNICEF, World Vision, Youth with a Mission, and various governments. He has many academic publications covering Aboriginal health, aged care, palliative care, and rural medical training and participated and led many committees covering health and medicine.

He has been actively involved in the Anglican church including as a member of the St. Barnabas Theological College Council and a Member of the Social Responsibilities Committee of the Diocese of Adelaide. He has also had leadership positions in the Christian Medical and Dental Fellowship of Australia (National Chair) as well as the International Christian Medical and Dental Associations (Vice-President). He was one of the founders of HealthServe Australia (now HealhServe Global). He also founded the International Health and Development summer school, also known as Intermed. He was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) in 2019 for significant service to medicine, to medical education, and to global health

In recent years Anthony published two memoirs, one regarding his experiences in Papua New Guinea (Singsings, Sutures and Sorcery), and the other about his experiences as a GP locum in rural South Australia (Have Stethoscope will Travel). He and Robin have three children, 9 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren.

Prepared by Dr Teem-Wing Yip and edited by Dr Doug Shaw

Other updates for 2026

Intermed has continued to run, in collaboration with Tabor and the Christian Medical and Dental Fellowship Australia (CMDFA) in South Australia, an annual Oration in honour of Intermed’s founder, Emeritus Professor Anthony Radford. You can read about the latest Oration – and all previous Orations – here: News and Events/The Anthony Radford Oration

We continue to explore “Minimed” opportunities based on a one-day workshop for medical students planning electives in less resourced contexts held in December 2019.

Enquiries

Dr Doug Shaw, Intermed Secretary
intermedsa@adam.com.au
Tel: 61 0408 679 347

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