Rebecca Fanany is a native New Yorker who has lived in Australia for more than thirty years. She is the author of several academic books, textbooks, numerous articles, and many translations from and into Indonesian and Malay. She has degrees from the University of Minnesota and a PhD from the University of Tasmania. She is currently an Associate Professor of Public Health at a major Australian university and heads the postgraduate public health program. Her first novel, Emily Lowe, Public Healthican, reflects her longstanding interest in the history of public health and how the field has evolved.
