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Brian Oldenburg was born in Sydney, Australia, on October 23, 1953. He received his Bachelor of Science (Honors in Psychology) degree from University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 1975, and he then worked in a community mental health center in Sydney before living and working in the United Kingdom for 2 years. He returned to Australia in 1978 to the Department of Psychiatry at Prince Henry Hospital and University of NSW, before completing a Masters of Clinical Psychology in 1983. He completed his Ph.D. degree in the UNSW Schools of Medicine and Psychiatry in 1987. He was employed as a lecturer – and then, senior lecturer – in the Department of Public Health, University of Sydney (1987–1994) before becoming professor and head of the School of Public Health at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane (1994–2006). In 2006, Oldenburg became the inaugural professor and director of International Public Health and Associate Dean International at Monash...
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Oldenburg, B. (2013). Oldenburg, Brian. In: Gellman, M.D., Turner, J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1005-9_1466
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