Anastasia Katherine "Anna" Donald (née Courtice; 1966 – 1 February 2009) was an Australian pioneer in the field of evidence-based medicine.
Donald was educated at North Sydney Girls High School; Wesley College, University of Sydney, from which she graduated in 1989 as a bachelor of arts, majoring in history and preclinical medicine; the University of Oxford, where she received a bachelor of medicine and surgery degree; and Harvard University, whe...
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Anastasia Katherine "Anna" Donald (née Courtice; 1966 – 1 February 2009) was an Australian pioneer in the field of evidence-based medicine.
Donald was educated at North Sydney Girls High School; Wesley College, University of Sydney, from which she graduated in 1989 as a bachelor of arts, majoring in history and preclinical medicine; the University of Oxford, where she received a bachelor of medicine and surgery degree; and Harvard University, where she graduated with a master's degree in public policy and degrees in medicine, economics and history. She was the second woman from New South Wales to win a Rhodes Scholarship, an honour previously awarded to her paternal grandfather.
While at Sydney University, Donald won the Henry Lawson Prize for a collection of short stories. In 1988, she presided over the World Universities Debating Championship, held in Sydney. It was at that event that she met Michael Hall, her future husband and then a member of the winning debating team, from...
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