Malcolm Segall trained as a paediatrician in UK and became Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health in the new University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
He became Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, from where he researched health systems in low resource countries, and worked with governments and international agencies to develop public health services in Africa (including newly-liberated Mozambique, newly-liberated Zimbabwe and post-apartheid South Africa) as well as in Vietnam and China.
On retirement he then turned to his second life of plays. He had earlier in 1959, while a medical student, directed Oscar Wilde’s play Salome on the Fringe of the Edinburgh Festival, a production that was given a half-page coverage in The Scotsman, 28 August. Now he has written three screenplays for television.
