Lenore Manderson is a medical anthropologist known also for her work in sociology, social history and public health. From 1988-1998, she was Professor of Tropical Health at the University of Queensland, and in 1999, took up appointment as Professor of Women's Health and Director of the Key Centre for Women's Health and Society at the University of Melbourne.
Manderson is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia, a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropologists (USA), and a member of the Malinowski award committee of the Society. She has also been elected as a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.
