Sotiris Vardoulakis is Director of the Australian HEAL (Healthy Environments And Lives) National Research Network, Professor of Global Environment and Public Health at the University of Canberra, Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter Medical School. He is co-Director of the Clean Air and Planetary Health in Asia (CEPHA) Network and the Clean Energy for Healthy Environments And Lives (CE4HEAL) Partnership. Previously he was Director of Research at the Institute of Occupational Medicine in Edinburgh and Head of the Environmental Change Department at Public Health England. Vardoulakis’ main research interests include climate change, air pollution and health, sustainable cities, exposure and health impact assessment, environmental epidemiology, and public health communication and policy. He was a lead author of the first UK Climate Change Risk Assessment and contributor to the National Adaptation Plan. He is a currently a Coordinating Lead Author of the UNEP Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-7). |