Tony McMichael

Prof Tony (AJ) McMichael, AO, was a medical graduate and epidemiologist at the Australian National University. He participated in a research program on the health risks of climate and environmental change, present and future.

Tony passed away in September 2014. You can read a tribute to his work in The Lancet here: http://bit.ly/ZSCV6k

During the 1980s he led a multidisciplinary study on environmental lead impacts on the intellectual development of children. During 1990-92 he was Chair of the Scientific Council of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, France. Since 1993 he has contributed substantively to the scientific assessment by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of risks to human health. He is an advisor to the World Health Organization on climate change risks to human health, and recently chaired an international expert group on the interactions between environment, climate and agriculture in the emergence of infectious diseases.

Professor McMichael was a member of the Science Advisory Panel to the (previous) Australian Government's Climate Change Commission (2011-2013). He was Honorary Professor of Climate Change and Health at the University of Copenhagen, and an ex-Associate Fellow of Chatham House, London (program on Global Health Security).

He published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers, many book chapters, and authored three books (Cambridge University Press and Penguin).