My principal work during 2001 was completing the book The John Curtin School of Medical Research. The First Fifty Years-1948 to 1998, of which I was co-author with David Curtis. The book was launched on 15 November 2001. During the year I also wrote a number of short scientific papers and contributed chapters (or updates of chapters written for earlier editions) for several scientific books.

I gave a lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases in Melbourne and participated in two Fenner Conferences on the Environment (July and September) and a Frank and Bobbie Fenner Conference on Medical Research (October). I also produced a paper Communicable Diseases of Livestock for a web-based symposium on human and environmental aspects of nutrition and gave a lecture on foot-and-mouth disease for U3A.

In August I gave a Sunday afternoon lecture on myxomatosis at the National Museum of Australia, and gave the after-dinner address at the dinner to mark the fiftieth Year of Biological Rabbit Control in Australia. The following day I participated in the Forum on Rabbit Control - The Next Fifty Years.

During October and November I was involved in several interviews with ABC radio and television and reporters from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald on myxomatosis and smallpox.