Melissa Haswell

Professor of Practice in Environmental Wellbeing, Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services), University of Sydney

I conduct research and teach environmental health, climate change, sustainability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health at the University of Sydney and at Queensland University of Technology. I have led many research projects and authored over 80 peer-reviewed publications in the fields of infectious disease epidemiology and control, pathogenesis and carcinogenesis associated with inflammation, toxicology, HIV/AIDS prevention, psychosocial and community empowerment, mental health and social and emotional wellbeing.

Experience

2016–present

Conjoint Professor, Public Health, University of New South Wales
2020–present

Professor of Practice in Environmental Wellbeing, University of Sydney
2016–present

Professor, Health Safety and Environment, Queensland University of Technology
2009–2016

Associate Professor, Environmental and Indigenous Health, University of New South Wales
2005–2009

Head, North Queensland Health Equalities Promotion Unit, Cairns, University of Queensland
1998–2004

Senior Lecturer, Indigenous Health Program, Brisbane and Thursday Island, University of Queensland
1996–1998

Environmental Epidemiologist, National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology, University of Queensland

Education

1987

Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, PhD / Infectious Disease Epidemiology
1982

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MSc / Bacteriology and Immunology

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