- Professor of Health, Safety and Environment, School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology
I conduct research and teach environmental health, climate change, sustainability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health at Queensland University of Technology. I have led many research projects and authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications in the fields of infectious disease epidemiology and control, pathogenesis and carcinogenesis associated with inflammation, toxicology, environmental health and wellbeing, climate change, HIV/AIDS prevention, psychosocial and community empowerment, mental health and social and emotional wellbeing. I am committed to using the abundant evidence to argue for the protection of human and multispecies health and wellbeing and intergenerational justice for our children who will bear the brunt of the polycrisis in planetary health should we fail to urgently mitigate.
Experience
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2016–presentProfessor, Health Safety and Environment, Queensland University of Technology
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2020–2025Professor of Practice in Environmental Wellbeing, University of Sydney
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2009–2016Associate Professor, Environmental and Indigenous Health, University of New South Wales
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2005–2009Head, North Queensland Health Equalities Promotion Unit, Cairns, University of Queensland
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1998–2004Senior Lecturer, Indigenous Health Program, Brisbane and Thursday Island, University of Queensland
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1996–1998Environmental Epidemiologist, National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology, University of Queensland
Education
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1987Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, PhD / Infectious Disease Epidemiology
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1982University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MSc / Bacteriology and Immunology
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1980Hiram College, Ohio, BA /Biology
Professional Memberships
- Public Health Association Australia
- Climate and Health Alliance
- International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
- Doctors for the Environment Australia (Honorary)
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