Margaret Sylvia Gilliland

Margaret Sylvia Gilliland (8 September 1917 – 18 May 1990) was an Australian biochemist, academic and anti-nuclear campaigner. and became a lecturer the following year. In 1969, she spent a year studying at the University of California, San Diego, funded by a graduate fellowship provided by the American Association of University Women. This expedition was ultimately cancelled due problems with insurance cover.

In 1978, she helped establish a multi-disciplinary program in community health at the master's level for the University of Queensland and served as director for the program. A core aim of this course was aimed at tackling malnutrition in South-east Asia and it was open the post-graduate students from the region with a major component being five months' fieldwork in the Philippines. It later extended its reach to Thailand, Malaysia, Fiji, and parts of Africa.

Publications

Gilliland, M. S. (1960). Biochemistry : Laboratory manual for Elementary biochemistry, Biochemistry II and Clinical Biochemistry III. University of Queensland Press. Gilliland, M. S. (1962). The metabolic and cultural activities of a streptomyces isolated from soil. The University of Queensland, School of Medicine. Gilliland, M. S. (1963). Biochemistry : laboratory manual for Biochemistry II and Clinical Biochemistry III. ([2nd ed.]). University of Queensland Press. Gilliland, M.S. & Yooringa Protest Group. (1973). Yooringa Protest Group Ephemera. Gilliland, M. S. & Yooringa Protest Group. (1973). Papers relating to Yooringa Protest Group.