Anna Donald

Anastasia Katherine Donald ( Courtice; 7 April 1966 – 1 February 2009), known as Anna Donald, was an Australian pioneer in the field of evidence-based medicine as well as an epidemiologist and company director.

Early life and early education Donald was the child of biologist Tony Courtice and Janet Donald ( Hales). Her maternal grandmother was reportedly of Chinese descent. and earned a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in History and Pre-Clinical Medical Studies, in 1989. a member of the winning debating team from the University of Oxford. becoming the second woman from the state to win the award. Donald's paternal grandfather was also a recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship in the 1930s.

Personal life In 2003, while living in the United Kingdom, Donald was reunited with Michael Hall, who had become a lawyer. They married in 2005 in St. James Church, Sydney. On 27 February 2007, Donald was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. She and her husband returned to Sydney. In April 2008, she began writing a blog for the online version of the British Medical Journal. Called From the Other Side, it chronicled her living with cancer. Her last post was on 22 December 2008. Donald died on 1 February 2009, aged 42, at Mater Hospital in Crows Nest, a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney.