CAPHIA Climate and Public Health Education Network (CPHEN) • Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia

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.

Open to academics and students.

CPHEN meets on the 3rd Thursday of the month 1pm to 2pm AEST.

Express your interest in joining here.

CPHEN Members

A/Prof Nick Osborne is an epidemiologist and toxicologist researching environmental exposures and health, including metals, pollen, mould, chemicals, pesticides, and cyanotoxins. Skilled in data linkage, analysis, and study design, he supervises PhD students, edits journals, and researches pollen-related health outcomes and kidney disease. He has held academic roles across Australia and internationally

Associate Professor Claire Henderson-Wilson, Deakin University, specialises in planetary and socio-ecological health. She leads the Health, Nature, Sustainability Research Group, focusing on how people–environment relationships and environmental change impact health and wellbeing. Her research emphasises nature’s role in health, climate change impacts, and multidisciplinary collaborations with universities, industry, and local governments.

Professor George Liu, Associate Dean International Partnerships, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University

Associate Professor Ying Zhang

Founding Chair: Sustainability, Climate and Health Collaboration, Inaugural Director: GCCHE Western Pacific Network on Climate and Health Education

School of Public Health, University of Sydney

Associate Professor Linda Murray teaches into postgraduate and undergraduate public health at Massey University, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is currently New Zealand President of the Australasian Epidemiological Association and a member of the Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania.

Associate Professor Caroline Shaw is a Public Health Medicine Specialist and epidemiologist in the Department of Public Health, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka Pōneke University of Otago Wellington. She teaches a postgraduate paper in environmental and planetary health and public health to undergraduate medical students. Her current research is in in the area of transport, health, equity and climate change, particularly around the health opportunities offered by decarbonising the transport sector.

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