Environment and Health Research Group
The Environment and Health Research Group, led by Professor Peng Bi, is a team of researchers working within the School of Public Health.
The group conducts domestic and internationally-significant research that identifies and delineates environmental and climatic hazards and their impact on public health and explores how risk, adaptation, and preparedness messages and practices can build health resilience within communities. Importantly, research is framed by a pragmatic approach to public health problems and is dedicated to providing translational evidence to the public, decision makers, and the broader research community.
The group has excellent collaboration with government organisations including including SA Health, SA SES, SafeWork Australia, Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Over the last ten years (2012-21), the group has been awarded 30 research grants, including nine ARC, four NHMRC, four NCCARF, one AusAID and one ACSRF. The group also convened the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility Vulnerable Community Network (2014-17), funded by the Australian Government's Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment.
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Lead researcher
Professor Peng Bi
Professor Peng Bi's main research interest is environmental health, climate change, infectious diseases, and emergency public health event response. His most significant contributions to the field are about climate change and its impact on population health including health risk and associate health care cost assessment, risk factor and vulnerable population identification, and tailored community health adaptation, both nationally and internationally. He has established excellent collaborations with government organisations, service providers and vulnerable communities to transfer scientific findings into public health practice and also undertakes research projects in One Health area.
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Research team
- Professor Dino Pisaniello
- Professor Philip Weinstein
- Dr Alana Hansen
- Dr Susan Williams
- Dr Scott Hanson-Easey
- Dr Monika Nitschke
- Dr Adriana Milazzo
- Dr Olga Anikeeva
- Dr Jianjun Xiang
- Professor Scott Cameron
- Dr Blesson Varghese
- Dr Michael Tong
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Professor Keith Dear
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Partnerships
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Related areas of research
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