Vicki Luker, BA Hons (Melb), BA Hons (Syd), PhD (ANU)
Executive Editor, The Journal of Pacific History
Research Fellow in State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project

Email: vicki.luker@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

Vicki Luker has broad interests in the Pacific, including the region's changing health patterns. The contemporary challenges of HIV/AIDS for development, governance and equity are the focus of her current research. With Sinclair Dinnen she is coediting Sex and Insecurity: Law, Order and HIV/AIDS in the Pacific.

Key Publications

• Vicki Luker 2008, 'Papua New Guinea: Epidemiological Transition, Public Health and the Pacific.' In Milton Lewis and Kerrie L. MacPherson (eds) Public Health in Asia and the Pacific: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 250-275
• Vicki Luker 2005, 'A Tale of Two Mothers: Colonial Constructions of Indian and Fijian Maternity'. Fijian Studies, 3 (2), pp. 357-374
• Vicki Luker 2004, 'AIDS and the Burden of Care: Mainstreaming Gender or 'Mainthemeing' Women?' Development Bulletin 64, pp. 78-81
• Vicki Lukere and Margaret Jolly (eds), 2002, Birthing in the Pacific: Beyond tradition and modernity? Honolulu, Hawai'i University Press.
• Vicki Lukere, 2002, 'Native Obstetric Nursing in Fiji.' In Vicki Lukere and Margaret Jolly (eds), 2002. Birthing in the Pacific: Beyond tradition and modernity? Honolulu, Hawaii University Press, pp. 100-124
• Vicki Lukere, 2002, 'Conclusions. Wider Reflections and a Survey of Literature.' In Vicki Lukere and Margaret Jolly (eds), 2002. Birthing in the Pacific: Beyond tradition and modernity? Honolulu, Hawaii University Press, pp. 100-124