Sotiris Vardoulakis

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  • Professor of Environmental Pubic Health and Director of the HEAL Global Research Centre, University of Canberra

Sotiris Vardoulakis is Professor of Environmental Public Health at the University of Canberra Health Research Institute, and Director of the NHMRC Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) National Research Network. He has held senior academic, civil service, research and consultancy positions in the UK and Australia. He was Director of Research at the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM, Edinburgh), Head of the Environmental Change Department at Public Health England, and Professor of Global Environmental Health at the Australian National University. He is currently Honorary Professor at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health at the University of Exeter, and Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He holds a PhD in Air Pollution from the University of Greenwich, a MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London, and a BSc in Physics from the University of Athens.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Professor of Environmental Public Health and Director of the HEAL Global Research Centre, University of Canberra
  • 2019–2024
    Professor of Global Environmental Health, Australian National University
  • 2017–2019
    Director of Research, Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM)
  • 2010–2017
    Head of Environmental Change Department; Group Leader for Climate Change and Air Pollution, Public Health Engand / Health Protection Agency
  • 2006–2010
    Lecturer and Course Director, Masters of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • 2004–2006
    Lecturer in Air Pollution , University of Birmingham

Education

  • 2003 
    University of Greenwich, PhD in Air Pollution
  • 1998 
    Imperial College London, MSc in Environmental Technology
  • 1996 
    University of Athens, BSc (Honours) in Physics

Grants and Contracts

  • 2025
    Climate Attribution of Wildfire Smoke Impacts on Priority Population Health in Southeast Asia and Australia
    Role:
    Principal Investigator (CIA)
    Funding Source:
    Wellcome Trust
  • 2025
    Community resilience centres for improving climate adaptation to bushfire smoke and heatwaves
    Role:
    Principal Investigator (CIA)
    Funding Source:
    National Health and Medical Research Council
  • 2024
    Climate change adaptation to smoke haze for improved child health in Southeast Asia
    Role:
    Principal Investigator (CIA)
    Funding Source:
    National Health and Medical Research Council
  • 2022
    Centre for Safe Air
    Role:
    Chief Investigator (CIF)
    Funding Source:
    National Health and Medical Research Council
  • 2022
    Healing Country: Integrating knowledge systems to meet climate challenges
    Role:
    Chief Investigator (CIC)
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2021
    Promoting active travel and public transport for a post-pandemic world
    Role:
    Chief Investigator (CIB)
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2021
    Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) National Research Network
    Role:
    Principal Investigator (CIA)
    Funding Source:
    National Health and Medical Research Council

Professional Memberships

  • Public Health Association of Australia
  • International Society for Urban Health

Contact Sotiris for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision