Julie Cliff
Julie Laraine Cliff (born 1944) is an Australian physician and
epidemiologist known for her work in the prevention and control of infectious diseases through investigating epidemics and health policy, particularly in Mozambique, where her career spanned around 40 years. There, her investigations revealed that the re-emergence of the
paralytic disease
konzo in poor rural communities was caused by high levels of
cyanide in insufficiently processed
cassava, as a result of changes in
food preparation practices due to the economic effects of war and drought.
In 1996, Cliff was appointed an Officer of the
Order of Australia, and awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by
Monash University. In 2013, she delivered the
John Snow Society's
Pumphandle Lecture, titled "From London to Mozambique, from cholera to konzo".
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