The CAPHIA Climate and Public Health Education Network is designed to drive professional development and advocacy in climate and public health education. Network members will have the opportunity to contribute the development of CAPHIA competencies in climate and health education, contribute to curricula resources and inform advocacy submissions and government consultations.
Co-Chairs: Associate Professor Aditya Vyas and Associate Professor Rebecca Patrick.
CPHEN meets February to November:
- even-numbered months: on the 3rd Tuesday of the month 11am to 12pm AEST/AEDT.
- odd-numbered months: on the 3rd Thursday of the month 1pm to 2pm AEST/AEDT.
Open to academics and students. Express your interest in joining here.
CPHEN Members
At last count we numbered 51, here are some of us:
Co-Chair
Dr Aditya (Adi) Vyas
University of Sydney
USyd profile
LinkedIn profile
Co-Chair
A/Prof Rebecca Patrick
Academic Convener (Climate CATCH Lab)
Associate Professor (Climate Change and Health)
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
A/Prof Nick Osborne
University of Queensland
UQ profile
Google Scholar profile
A/Prof Claire Henderson-Wilson
Deakin University
Deakin profile
Prof George Liu
La Trobe University
La Trobe profile
A/Prof Caroline Shaw
Associate Professor
University of Otago
Otago profile
A/Prof Md Nazmul Karim
Associate professor (Clinical Epidemiology)
Medical Education Research and Quality (MERQ) unit
Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Monash Profile
Alexandra Bhatti
Senior Lecturer
Macquarie University
Macquarie profile
Dr Evie Kendal
Senior Lecturer of Health Promotion
Swinburne University of Technology
LinkedIn profile
A/Prof Ying Zhang
University of Sydney
A/Prof Linda Murray
Massey University
Dr Klaus Gebel
Senior Lecturer
University of Technology Sydney
UTS profile
Dr Amy Bestman
Lecturer
University of Wollongong
UOW profile
LinkedIn profile
A/Prof Ken Winkel
Teaching Specialist
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
UniMelb profile
LinkedIn profile
A/Prof Jacqueline Stephens
Flinders Health & Medical Research Institute
Flinders profile
Dr Mehak Batra
La Trobe University
La Trobe profile


Philomena Colagiuri
University of Sydney
Lancet Countdown Working Group 1
LinkedIn profile
We want to feature as many of the network members as we can – please send your headshot, title and link(s) to your institutional and/or LinkedIn profile(s) here.