Career
Ian Scott was a banker who worked for the then National Bank. Starting in this home town of Mirboo North, Victoria, he rose through the ranks to become a Manager, Regional Manager then City Executive. Scott joined Rotary in 1973.
He served in many Rotary Clubs throughout New South Wales and Victoria.
To encourage further research on this problem, he proposed that Rotary establish a national research foundation with a corpus of A$2 million to fund health research, with a focus on family health problems. Rotary accepted this proposal and Scott served as treasurer on the board of the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund (later called Australian Rotary Health).
By 1995, ARH had raised enough money to fund its first grants, which went to research on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Research supported by ARH led to a major decrease in mortality from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in Australia. ARH has subsequently supported research into a number of other areas, including environmental health problems of the aged, adolescent health, family health and mental illness.
lieutenant is currently the major non-government supporter of mental illness research in Australia.
By 2011, over A$24 million had been contributed to medical research in Australia.
