Clare Walter

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Clare Walter coordinates the Sustainable Health and Environment Network (SHEN) at Deakin University and lectures in Human Sciences and Health Geography at the University of Melbourne. She holds a cross-disciplinary PhD in Public Health and Policy from the University of Queensland, which examined the health impacts of air pollution in Australia and how evidence can inform more effective mitigation and public policy.

Clare’s background as a clinical pharmacist, including work in lung cancer clinics at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, shaped her interest in environmental exposures such as diesel exhaust and their links to non-smoking-related lung disease. Her current work spans environmental health, health service planning, and public policy analysis, with a focus on translating research into practical interventions. She has experience working across clinical, academic, and public health sectors, and is particularly engaged in evaluating models of care, analysing health and demographic data, and supporting public health advocacy.

Experience

  • 2017–present
    Dr, University of Melbourne

Education

  • 2025 
    University of Queensland, PhD

Publications

  • 2025
    Empowering Students as Change Agents to Reduce Vehicle Idling and Promote Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours: The Idle Off Pilot Study,
  • 2024
    Traffic related air pollution and childhood asthma—Are the risks appropriately mitigated in Australia?,
  • 2021
    The health impacts of ambient air pollution in Australia: a systematic literature review,
  • 2020
    Health impacts of bushfire smoke exposure in Australia,
  • 2020
    Australian childcare centres are too close to car parks exposing children with developing lungs to high levels of traffic pollution,
  • 2019
    Traffic pollution near childcare centres in Melbourne,
  • 2017
    Coal mine dust lung disease in the modern era,
  • 2014
    Impact of a specialist clinical cancer pharmacist at a multidisciplinary lung cancer clinic,
  • 2012
    An unusual case of serotonin syndrome with oxycodone and citalopram,

Professional Memberships

  • Public Health Association of Australia

Research Areas

  • Public Health And Health Services (1117)
  • Human Geography (1604)
  • Environmental Sciences (05)
  • Public Policy (160510)

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