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'''Melvin Athol Brieseman''' (13 June 1934 – 25 October 2010) was a New Zealand [[public health]] official, surgeon, obstetrician and [[missionary]] to India.

== Early life and education ==
Brieseman was born in [[Stratford, New Zealand]] on 13 June 1934, and after completing his primary and secondary schooling in [[Taranaki Region|Taranaki]] left for the [[University of Otago]] to study [[medicine]].

== Career ==
After graduation, he returned to Taranaki, taking up a house [[surgeon]] job in [[New Plymouth]]. Brieseman spent four years in this job, before he left for [[England]] after being granted a scholarship. He spent a year there before emigrating to India where he worked as a missionary north of [[Bombay]].

Brieseman spent 10 years in India as a practicing surgeon and [[obstetrician]] while his wife helped with hospital and [[outreach]] programmes in the villages. This “[[third-world]]” work inspired in Brieseman an interest in public health, and, when his children began to outgrow the Indian education system he and his family returned to [[Dunedin]] where he completed a Diploma in Public Health. After his return Indian authorities became less accepting of foreign doctors, which discouraged Brieseman from plans to go back. He instead took on a government job as the Medical Officer of Health for the [[Canterbury, New Zealand|Canterbury]] region in 1977, and has held the position for nearly 30 years. In this time Brieseman has monitored and managed public health response to issues such as [[water quality]], [[HIV]], [[tobacco smoking|smoking]], [[measles]], [[influenza]], [[diabetes]] and [[Legionnaires' disease]].

== Personal life ==
He met his wife, Joan, during medical school. They had four children. When they lived in India, their children were schooled 1000 km to the south, returning to their parents for the school holidays.

Melvin Brieseman died at his home in Christchurch on 25 October 2010.

==References==
* [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lp6hmzh83ZcJ:webhsb.com/portal/story.asp%3Fidstr%3D79019646+Brieseman+stratford&hl=en&gl=nz&ct=clnk&cd=3 Harvard State Bank Article: Dr. Mel Brieseman, August 8, 2005]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060615050721/http://www.greaterchristchurch.org.nz/RelatedInfo/ Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy]

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[[Category:University of Otago alumni]]
[[Category:People from Stratford, New Zealand]]
[[Category:New Zealand expatriates in India]]
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