Prof. Hilary Bambrick

Head of School of Public Health and Social Work, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Professor Hilary Bambrick, Head of QUT’s School of Public Health at Social Work, researches the health impacts of climate change. She led the health impacts assessment for Australia’s national review (The Garnaut Review, 2008) and has contributed to adaptation strategies in Australia, including for Sydney, Queensland and Tasmania.  She consults for DFAT, WHO and UNDP on climate impacts and adaptation strategies for health, including building national health systems resilience, and has worked on community-based adaptation in Asia, remote Pacific and the Ethiopian Rift Valley. She is a Councillor with Australia’s Climate Council and contributes regularly to media and public debate.

Emeritus Professor Gerald Fitzgerald

School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Emeritus Professor Gerald (Gerry) FitzGerald retired in July 2019 as Professor of Public Health at QUT and discipline Leader of Health Management and Disaster Management. He holds medical specialist qualifications in Emergency Medicine and Medical Administration and a Doctor of Medicine degree for a thesis entitled Emergency Department Triage. Professor FitzGerald was previously the Director of the Emergency Department at Ipswich Hospital, Medical Director and then Commissioner of the Qld Ambulance Service and Chief Health Officer. Since joining QUT Prof. FitzGerald has led the discipline of Health Management. His principal research focus is on emergency healthcare systems and how they perform under both routine and non-routine pressures. He has published over 150 peer reviewed articles, a text in Disaster Health Management, eight book chapters and more than 100 conference representations. He has supervised more than 30 PhD students to completion and obtained over $5m in research grants (including three ARC and three NHMRC grants).

Professor Wenbiao Hu

School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Prof. Wenbiao Hu is an Environmental Epidemiologist and former Australian Research Council Fellow at School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. He is the director of Australia-China Centre for Public Health, QUT. Prof. Hu has been awarded over 8 national highly prestigious and competitive grants and has published more than 240 peer-reviewed articles in international and national journals. His research interests are on infectious disease ecology and epidemiology. He is a reviewer for prestigious journals including Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Lancet Planetary Health, PloS Med, etc. Prof. Hu has served as a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grants panel member, an invited reviewer for the NHMRC Project Grants, ARC Discovery Grants and ARC Linkage Grant.

Associate Professor Donna Green

School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences - University of New South Wales, Australia

Associate Professor Donna Green was a founding member of the Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW. She is an Associate Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; and an affiliate of the NHMRC Centre for energy, air pollution and health Research. She leads a national researcher network, the Climate Health Network www.climatehealth.info. As an interdisciplinary environmental scientist, she conducts research on climate impacts, energy policy, public health and air pollution. Donna was a contributing author in the UN World Energy Assessment and for the IPCC’s Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports.

Prof. Yuming Guo

Global Environmental Health and Biostatistics & Head of the Monash Climate, Air Quality Research (CARE) Unit, Monash University, Australia

Dr. Guo is Professor of Global Environmental Health and Biostatistics & Head of Climate, Air Quality Research Unit at Monash University. He has developed many multidisciplinary national/international collaborative programs, which have delivered new approaches and tools to improve exposure assessment, statistical modelling, and has demonstrated that climate change, extreme weather and air pollution have great health impacts. Since 2010, he has published > 330 peer reviewed articles in prestigious journals including NEJM, The Lancet, BMJ, and PLOS Medicine. He is Associate/Academic Editor for PLOS Medicine, EHP, Environment International, and Environmental Research. He has been awarded the Tony McMichael Award by ISEE (2020), Young Tall Poppy of The Year (2020), Rising Star of Australian Researchers (2019), NHMRC Research Excellence Award (2018), and Best Environmental Epidemiology Paper by ISEE 2016.

Dr. Cunrui Huang, Professor

School of Public Health-Sun Yat-sen University, China

Dr. Cunrui Huang is a Professor in the School of Public Health at Sun Yat-sen University, China. He is the Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Program funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Lead author of Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and China National Committee Member of Future Earth. Dr. Huang’s research focuses on the health impacts of climate change and extreme events, especially on more vulnerable populations. He has been conducting research on heat-related mortality, years of life lost due to climate change, understanding sources of vulnerability, and adaptation planning to improve health outcomes. He has published over 60 articles in prestigious journals such as Nature Climate Change, JAMA, Environmental Health Perspectives, and his work has been featured in The Australian, Wired Magazine and many other media outlets. Dr. Huang is also committed to build and strengthen the Collaborative Network on Climate Change and Health Research under the Belt & Road Initiative.

Prof. Haidong Kan

School of Public Health-Fudan University,China

Prof. Haidong Kan, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2003 at Fudan University in China. In 2007, he completed his postdoc training at the National Institute of Environmental Health Science of the US. He is now associate editor of International Journal of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Perspectives. His research investigates how ambient air pollution and global climate change affect human health. 

Dr. Shengjie Lai, BMed, MMed, PhD, Senior Research Fellow

WorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Dr. Lai has been long engaged in interdisciplinary research focusing on human mobility, environmental changes, and infectious disease transmission dynamics and early warning, to provide an improved evidence-base for disease control decision-making. He has >120 papers published in scientific journals such as Nature, Science, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Nature Human Behaviour, and Nature Communications. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has been leading a series of influential COVID studies for understanding the COVID-19 transmission dynamics and intervention effectiveness. The findings of these studies have been timely shared with the WHO, Africa CDC, Europe CDC, China CDC, among others for tailoring COVID-19 intervention strategies, and also featured in main media outlets across the world.

Associate Professor Steve Lambert, Medical Director

Epidemiology and Research Unit, Communicable Diseases Branch, Queensland Health, Brisbane, Australia

Stephen Lambert is a public health physician with an interest in the public health surveillance and management of communicable diseases. Stephen's research interests include using publicly available data to assess vaccine program impact and quantify the effectiveness of new and existing vaccines.

A/Prof. Ricardo J. Soares Magalhães

School of Veterinary Science-The University of Queensland, Australia

Assoc. Prof. Soares Magalhães (LVM MSc PhD DiplECVPH) is a veterinarian and zoonotic disease epidemiologist with qualifications in both human and veterinary public health. He leads the UQ’s Spatial Epidemiology Laboratory (www.spatialepilab.com) a One Health medical geography group within the University of Queensland, Australia. His primary research focuses on the development and application of spatial risk assessment methods to inform integrated surveillance of zoonotic infectious diseases. He has served as an international consultant to WHO and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations to assist the development of national action plans for antimicrobial resistance and avian influenza. He is part of the editorial board of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, BMC Infectious Diseases, BMC Veterinary Research, One Health journal and Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

Professor Steven McPhail

School of Public Health and Social Work - Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Steve is a health services researcher, health economist and clinician who is passionate about ensuring promising research findings have appropriate influence on policy, practice and resource allocation decisions. He is the Academic Director of the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI) and co-Director of the Centre for Healthcare Transformation at QUT.  He has been supported by consecutive National Health and Medical Research Council administered fellowships since completing his PhD (UQ). Steve’s major focus is on working in multidisciplinary partnerships to help design, implement and evaluate effective solutions to complex problems. While this can be challenging, he has had some success along the way having been awarded $100M+ in competitive research funding supporting his research that has resulted in practice changes in 100+ health services on 6 continents and cited in policy-related documents from the World Bank and World Health Organisation.

Dr. Amanda Murphy

Division of Pacific Technical Support - World Health Organization

Amanda holds a PhD in vector-borne disease epidemiology, and has more than 15 years’ experience working in infectious disease research and project coordination roles in the Asia Pacific region – previously working with the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN), and the Australian Initiative for the Control and Elimination of Malaria (AICEM) in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. Amanda has recently joined the WHO Division of Pacific Technical Support based in Suva, Fiji, where she acts as a regional focal point to support the vector surveillance and control needs of Pacific Island countries.

Dr. Xin Qi, Associate Professor

School of Public Health - Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Dr. Xin Qi is an Associate Professor in Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xi’an Jiaotong University. He got the PhD degree in environmental epidemiology at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Dr. Qi has got several national and other research grants and a track record of publication (e. g., Environmental Research, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Cancer Prevention Research) and has supervised over 10 master students as principle supervisor. He is a member of the American Public Health Association and the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. He is also the anonymous reviewer of several academic journals including The Innovation, AJTMH. His research areas include environmental epidemiology, climate change, air pollution and population health, and spatiotemporal epidemiology. 

Dr. Zhiwei Xu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

School of Public Health - The University of Queensland, Australia

Dr. Xu has published more than 40 papers as first/corresponding author, and has a career Google-Scholar H-index of 25 and has been cited >2,000 times. His research interests are: (1) extreme weather events and health; (2) early life environmental exposure and children’s health; and (3) environmental hazards and women’s reproductive health

Dr. Lin Yang, Associate Professor

School of Nursing-The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Dr. YANG Lin is Associate Professor in School of Nursing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). She joined PolyU in 2014 after obtaining her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the School of Public Health, the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include infectious disease epidemiology, infection control and vaccination. She has published more than 40 research articles in international peer-review journals, and her research widely covers epidemiological characteristics, clinical management and transmission modeling of COVID-19. She is now the Vice Chairperson of the Infection Control Subcommittee of the Guangdong Provincial Association of Hospitals and the expert committee member of the China Medical Education Association.

Rokeya Akter

Spatial Analyst in Water Technology Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Australia

I am Rokeya Akter, spatial analyst in Water Technology and former lecturer in Zoology in Bangladesh. I have achieved Doctorate degree in science from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. My research primarily focuses on climate variability and socio-demographic attributes and how they impact on dengue. I have published several articles in prominent scientific journals including Environmental Research, Plos one, Plos NTDS and Tropical Medicine and International Health. As a spatial analyst in Water Technology, I am involved in spatial data management, spatial analysis of water resources, flooding and environmental projects. I have also worked with multiple stakeholders, including policy makers and local communities, to communicate environmental objectives and assess sustainability needs.

Aswi Aswi, Assistant Professor

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science-Universitas Negeri Makassar (UNM), Indonesia

Aswi is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, Universitas Negeri Makassar (UNM). Aswi is fascinated by exploring Bayesian Spatio-temporal trends in disease for regions with a small number of areas, with a focus on understanding dengue fever in Makassar, Indonesia as well as other diseases. Aswi achieved recognition as a professional lecturer in August 2011 in Indonesia and as an Associate Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), UK in August 2019. Aswi was officially sworn into the member of the senate at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, UNM on September 9, 2020.

Prof. Yana Bai  M.D., M.P.H.

School of Public Health - Lanzhou University, China

Prof. Yana Bai is a Professor at Institute of Epidemiology and Statistics, School of Public Health at Lanzhou University, and the Supervisor of doctoral program of College of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Lanzhou University. She is also a Visiting scholar of School of Public Health at Yale University. As the main leader, she established the world's only polymetallic exposure cohort (Jinchang Cohort) and followed up for more than 10 years based on 50,000 people. Her major interests include cohort study, environmental epidemiology and epidemiology of chronic diseases. She has been the PI for 1 NIH grant and 2 grants of Natural Science Foundation of China, and also participated in a number of national and international grants (including 2 National ‘Twelfth five-year project’ Scientific Research Programs of Health Care Reform in China, 2 National ‘Twelfth five-year project’ Scientific Research and Scientific Renovation Programs, National Technology Research and Development Program of Chronic Diseases Intervention and Prevention, National Key-Research program on ‘Precision medicine’ and 4 International collaboration grants).

Prof. Peng Bi

School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Australia

Professor Peng Bi directs a team of 20 people in the School of Public Health at the University of Adelaide University undertaking research on the health risks and adaptation from extreme heat and climate change. His work has been recognized nationally and internationally. He has won 23 National Competitive grants with 18 as CIA, more than 250 publications, 40 plenary and keynote presentations in the past 15 years. He is the Recipient of the Inaugural President’s Award for Research into the Public Health Effects of Climate Change of CAPHIA in 2020. He was National Coordinator of NCCARF Vulnerable Community Network.

Dr. John Paul Cauchi, PhD Candidate

School of Public Health and Social Work, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

John comes from the Mediterranean island of Malta, from where he graduated with a medical degree (MD) from the University of Malta in November 2009. He subsequently went on to specialise in Public Health by completing a MSc Public Health degree at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has recently completed his PhD at QUT, investigating Climate Change, Food Security and Health in Kiribati. His interests include the field of human ecology, with the overarching principle that a healthy environment leads to a healthy life, and that man needs to work in harmony with nature, not in competition with it. Other interests include climate adaptation studies focusing on building resilience.

Jian Cheng, Professor

School of Public Health & Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Major Autoimmune Disease - Anhui Medical University, China

Education: Ph.D., Queensland University of Technology, 2020

Professional Appointments: Professor, PhD supervisor

Teaching: Epidemiology & Medical Statistics

Affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health & Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Major Autoimmune Disease, Anhui Medical University, China

Research Interest: Nine years of working and research experience on the impact of climate change and air pollution on human health, including exposure risk and disease burden assessment.

Publication: More than 50 peer reviewed publications

Collaborations: Queensland University of Technology, The University of Queensland, Hong Kong University, etc.

Reviewer for journals: BMJ, Lancet Planetary Health, Environmental Health Perspectives, International Journal of Epidemiology, etc.

Dr Nicholas J Clark, Lecturer, ARC DECRA Fellow

School of Veterinary Science, University of Queensland, Australia

Prof. Cordia Chu AM, BSSc. MA., PhD

Director, Centre for Environment and Population Health

Coordinator, the Hub for Global Health Security

School of Medicine and Dentistry - Griffith University, Australia

Dr. Ralph Trancoso da Silva, Research Fellow

School of Biological Sciences - The University of Queensland, Australia

Ralph is an earth system scientist with over 20 years’ experience in academia, government and industry. His projects have been targeting the impacts of climate change and deforestation on earth surface processes and how these impacts affect society around the world exploring both observations and modelling. Ralph’s areas of expertise span climate change, spatial sciences, ecohydrology, remote sensing and data analysis. His science has strong focus on policy outcomes in addition to purely scientific contributions.

Dr. Hancheng Dai, Assistant Professor

College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering-Peking University, China

Dr. Dai’s research focuses on green & low-carbon transformation and human & planetary health at the local, national and global scales. By developing and applying the state-of-the-art IMED model, key questions are explored on the mitigation costs of achieving ambitious climate targets and their co-benefits on improvements in air pollution, human health and resource efficiency.

Dr. Dai serves as the Lead Author of the Global Environment Outlook Sixth Edition (GEO-6) for Cities, Contributing Author of the IPCC 6 th Assessment Report, Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Collaborator, Standing Committee Member of Branch of Ecological and Environmental Systems Engineering, Systems Engineering Society of China, and Committee Member of City Air Integrated Management and Low Carbon Action Partnership of China.

Dr. Pandji W. Dhewantara, Researcher

National Institute of Health Research and Development - Ministry of Health, Indonesia

Dr. Pandji W. Dhewantara is a researcher in the National Institute of Health Research and Development of the Ministry of Health of Indonesia. He completed his PhD at the University of Queensland in 2020. Dr. Dhewantara’s research focuses on the epidemiology of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases (VBZDs) including dengue, malaria, chikungunya, lymphatic filariasis and leptospirosis. His current research focuses on the impacts of climate change on VBDs in Indonesia. 

Dr. Guanghui Dong, Professor

School of Public Health-Sun Yet-san University, China

Dr. Dong is a Professor of environmental epidemiology and environmental toxicology. He has years of experience working as an environmental epidemiologist in China and his research areas of focus include adults and child health, environmental health, exposure assessment, indoor and outdoor air pollution. Also, His research area focused on the toxicological evaluation of some components in PM10 and PM2.5, such as some persistent organic pollutant (PFOS, PBDEs) in ambient air particles. So far, Dr. Dong has published more than 120 papers in the international journals including Lancet Planetary Health, JAMA Network Open, EHP, etc. journals as first and corresponding author.

Dr. Bo Huang, Professor

Department of Geography and Resource Management - The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Dr. Bo Huang is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include the design and development of models and algorithms for spatial-temporal statistics, unified satellite image fusion and multiobjective spatial optimization with applications to environmental monitoring and sustainable land use and transportation planning. In recent years, he has been concentrating on the use of mobility networks and spatiotemporal big data analytics to bear on urban structure and public health problems.

Dr. Peng Jia, Assistant Professor

International Institute of Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), Wuhan University, China

Prof. Jia is the founding director of the International Institute of Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), and a professor in Wuhan University, China. He received his M.S. in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) from Chinese Academy of Sciences, M.S. in Spatial Epidemiology from Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida, and Ph.D. in Health Geography from Louisiana State University. His research mainly focuses on the applications of GIS, statistics, remote sensing, big data, mobile devices, and artificial intelligence in environmental health areas, particularly in emerging infectious disease (e.g., COVID-19) and chronic disease research (e.g., obesity). His other interests include the association between climate and health, construction and optimization of national hierarchical healthcare systems, allocation and equality of healthcare resources, etc. He was the recipient for the Outstanding Article of the Year Award from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the 2019 IJERPH Young Investigator Award. He has published more than 100 papers and commentaries in SCI journals, including Nature, Nature Medicine, Lancet, Lancet Global Health, Environmental Health Perspectives.

Prof. Xiong Guo

School of Public Health-Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Xiong Guo, Professor, doctoral supervisor, Director, Key Laboratory of Trace Elements and Endemic Diseases, National Health Commission，Vice-Chairman of Endemic Disease Branch of Chinese Medical Association, Vice-Chairman of Endemic Disease Committee of National Health Standards Committee and Vice-Chairman of National Advisory Committee of Experts on Endemic Disease Prevention and Control of National Health Commission, participated in the examination and approval of National Health Endemic Disease Standards and endemic During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" and "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", the formulation and discussion of prevention and control plan were conducted, and the key projects of international cooperation of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the special projects of international cooperation of the Ministry of Science and Technology were presided over.

Professor Colleen Lau, Professorial Research Fellow, NHMRC Fellow

School of Public Health-The University of Queensland, Australia

Prof. Colleen Lau (MBBS (UWA), MPHTM (JCU), PhD (UQ), FRACGP, FACTM, FISTM) is a Professorial Research Fellow, NHMRC Fellow, and infectious disease epidemiologist at the School of Public Health, The University of Queensland. She has a significant portfolio of independent research and is internationally recognised for her expertise in emerging infectious diseases, neglected tropical diseases and travel medicine. Her work includes operational research on lymphatic filariasis (LF) elimination and surveillance to improve strategies for the WHO’s Global Programme to Eliminate LF, one of the largest public health programs in the world.  Other areas of research expertise include leptospirosis, eco-epidemiology, spatial epidemiology and disease mapping. 

Dr. Ruiyun Li, Researcher

Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis – University of Oslo, Norway

I am a researcher at Univeristy of Oslo. My research interests cover health geographics, mathematical epidemiology and public health. I have engaged extensively with methodological innovation for the spread of multiple diseases, including avian influenza, dengue, malaria and coronavirus. I was trained at Beijing Normal University, Columbia University and University of Oslo, and worked as a research associate in Imperial College London. 

Dr. Tiantian Li

Director of the Department of Environmental Health Risk Assessment, National Institute of Environmental Health (NIEH), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Tiantian Li, PhD, is the director of the Department of Environmental Health Risk Assessment, National Institute of Environmental Health (NIEH), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. She completed a postdoctoral appointment at the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University and a PhD from the Department of Environmental Sciences, College of Environmental Sciences, Peking University. Her major research interests include air pollution, climate change and health. She has been the PI or Co-I for many national research grants (including grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Health) and international research grants (including grants from the WHO, GEF, and NIH), She has published more than 150 academic papers.

Dr. Wei Luo, Assistant Professor

Geography Department - National University of Singapore, Singapore

He is an Assistant Professor in Geography Department at National University of Singapore. He used to be a Research Associate in Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He received Master degree from Geography department at University at Buffalo and PhD degree at Penn State University. His research focuses on geovisual analytics, epidemiology, and social network. He received Waldo-Tobler Young Researcher Awards from Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Commission of GIScience 2019.

Ms Hannah McClymont

School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Hannah McClymont is a current Master of Public Health student at Queensland University of Technology. Her research interest lies in environmental epidemiology, infectious disease and public health. Hannah is currently employed as a research assistant at QUT, where she is working on COVID-19 transmission in Australia and the association with environmental factors, weather variability and big data.

Dr. Dung Phung

Research Fellow, Centre for Environment and Population Health - Griffith University, Australia

Dr. Dung Phung has background in both medicine and public health. He received Master of Public Health in Occupational and Environmental Medicine from University of Washington, and PhD in Environment and Population Health from Griffith University, Australia. His recent research focus is on climate change and health in developing countries. The lower Mekong Delta Region (MDR), a developing and tropical area, is considered one of the areas in South-East Asia most vulnerable to extreme hydro-meteorological events associated with climate change. Phung has conducted a series of studies on the health effects of high ambient temperatures, unusual and intensive flooding events, and sea level rises in the MDR. He has expressed a special interest on translating from complex scientific evidence into policy and practices to support climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies in this region.

Dr. Simon Reid, Associate Professor

School of Public Health – The University of Queensland, Australia

Simon Reid is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland.  He is a keen advocate of One Health and the application of systems thinking approaches to understand and improve interventions for wicked problems at the human-animal-ecosystem interface such as zoonoses.  His research includes projects exploring the drivers of human-bat interactions, human brucellosis and improving global health security. He has an emerging interest in multisectoral governance as it applies to high level issues such as health security and antimicrobial resistance. He delivers postgraduate courses in communicable disease control and One Health at UQ.

Dr. Tanya Russell
Senior Research Fellow, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine - James Cook University, Australia

Dr Tanya Russell is an Australian medical entomologist and ecologist co-leading the Mosquito-Borne Diseases Group at James Cook University. The aim of her research is to stop the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases globally, but with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific. She has pioneered numerous large-scale field experiments across the Pacific, Asia and Africa demonstrating how the ecology of the mosquito vectors plays a significant role in disease transmission. Dr Russell has 60+ publications, reviews for various international journals, acts as an Associate Editor for Parasites & Vectors and supervises higher degree research students.

Amy Savage, PhD Candidate

School of Public Health and Social Work – Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Amy Savage is a public health nutrition researcher and practitioner with a focus on the health impacts of climate change.  She is currently completing her PhD exploring the impacts of climate change on food and nutrition security and diet-related non-communicable diseases in Vanuatu.  She has a Master of Human Nutrition from Deakin University. Amy has worked on a variety of international development projects with the Australian Government and currently works with the World Health Organization Climate Change and Health Unit.

Francesco Sera, Research Fellow

University of Florence; Honorary Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

Francesco Sera is Research Fellow at University of Florence and Honorary Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Francesco is a statistician and epidemiologist and he has worked in several epidemiological projects with more than 150 publications. His current research interests focuses on short term health effects of environmental exposures as temperature and air pollution, and related methodological aspects, as time series models, and pooling results from multi-centre studies. Working with colleagues of the Multi-Country Multi-City MCC Collaborative Research Network contributed increasing the evidence on environmental exposures health-impact with papers published in high-impact journals.

Dr. Maximilian Stammnitz
Postdoctoral fellow, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain

Maximilian Stammnitz is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain. He recently graduated from the University of Cambridge with a PhD in cancer genomics and bioinformatics. During his studies in Prof. Elizabeth Murchison’s laboratory at the Cambridge Veterinary School, he explored the somatic histories, mutational landscapes and therapeutic vulnerabilities of two transmissible cancer cell lineages in the Tasmanian devil. Since 2017, he has been leading PuntSeq (www.puntseq.co.uk), an interdisciplinary effort that uses portable DNA sequencing technology for biodiversity monitoring. His works have been recognised by Gates Cambridge Trust and FEBS fellowships, among other awards.

Dr. Linwei Tian

School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine - The University of Hong Kong, China

Dr. Linwei Tian is an environmental epidemiologist with a focus on air pollution and health. Compared with static data, time series data contain more information at our disposal for the inference of causality. He has been trying to examine the earlier ambiguity and enhance causal inference of the environment-health associations by contrasting the traditional time series regression models with the recent methods of causal discovery from big data. 

Dr. Minzhen Wang, Associate Professor

School of Public Health - Lanzhou University, China

Dr. Minzhen Wang is an Associate Professor in Institute of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health at Lanzhou University. She holds a Ph.D. degree in environmental health from Lanzhou University. Her works are focused on the air pollution and human health and also interested on the epidemiology of chronic disease on the platform of Jinchang cohort in China.

Dr. Ning Wang, Associate Professor

National Center for Chronic and Non-communicable Diseases Control and Prevention - Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention

Dr. Ning Wang is currently an associate professor at the Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention. She has more than ten years of experience in chronic diseases epidemiological research such as cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She received her Ph.D. from QUT in March 2021. The topic of her Ph.D. project is PM_2.5 and lung cancer mortality in China: spatial and temporal analyses. She has published over 20 articles in international peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. David Warne, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Centre for Data Science and the School of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science - Queensland University of Technology, Australia

David Warne is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Data Science and the School of Mathematical Sciences within the Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He is a member of the ARC (Australian Research Council) Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers. His research involves the development mathematical modelling and the application of advanced statistical and computational techniques to solve real word problems in diverse fields including biology, ecology, and health. His work regularly requires the development of new computational methods to resolved statistical inferences that would otherwise be intractable.

Prof. Shaowei Wu

School of Public Health - Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Dr. Wu has served as the Principal Investigator for a number of scientific research projects funded by National Key Research & Development Programs, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Beijing Natural Science Foundation. In recent years, Dr. Wu’s research has focused on the health effects of environmental factors such as air pollution, ultraviolet radiation, heavy metals on human health and related mechanisms. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles in international authoritative journals including American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and Environmental Health Perspectives, with a total of nearly 3000 citations. In 2018, he won the first Excellent Young Scientist Award of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, and won the second prize of Beijing Science and Technology Award and the second prize of Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences (both as the third completer). He is currently a councilor of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) Asia Western Pacific Chapter. He is also a member of the Biomarkers Professional Committee and the Exposure Omics and Exposure Science Professional Committee of Chinese Environmental Mutagen Society, and a member of Respiratory Toxicology Committee and Neurotoxicology Committee of Chinese Society of Toxicology. He also serves as an editorial board member for Journal of Environmental & Occupational Medicine and Journal of Environment and Health.

Associate Professor Yang Xie

School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, China

Yang Xie is an Associate Professor (Tenure Track) in the School of Economics and Management at Beihang University with an MD of Clinical Medicine from Health Science Center, Peking University and a PhD of Public Policy from Department of Industrial Engineering and Economics, Tokyo Institute of Technology. She is an Invited contributor of China Clean Air Policy Partnership (Synergy Pathway of Carbon Neutrality and Clean Air in China); Invited Lead of China Lancet Countdown Working Group v (Carbon Trade and Carbon Price); Collaborator, Global Burden Diseases. Yang Xie’s research focuses on developing the state-of-the-art integrated assessment models to find out the relationship between health impacts and climate mitigation, air pollution control as well as economic development from local to global scale. Her work aims to estimate the cost and benefit of public policy combining epidemiology, econometrics and CGE model.

Dr. Chuchu Ye, Deputy Director

Department of Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Pudong New Area Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China

Chuchu Ye, Department of Infectious Disease Control and Prevention in Pudong New Area Center for Disease Control and Prevention, deputy director. In charge of acute infectious disease surveillance and outbreak disposal. PHD of Fudan University, focus on study of infectious surveillance and early warning technique, seasonality features of influenza virus and its association with meteorological factors, influenza disease burden and the vaccination promotion among elderly. Principle Investigator of 4 projects and first/corresponding author of nine SCI papers.

Dr. Tao Xue,  Assistant Professor

School of Public Health - Peking University Health Science Center, China

Dr. Xue is an Assistant Professor from School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center. He holds a Bachelor degree in Environmental Science from Peking University, and a PhD degree in Public Health from University of Pittsburgh. His works are focused on the environmental risk factors including air pollution and climate change, and their exposure and health impact assessments. The relevant works have published in highly impactful journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS Medicine, and Lancet Planetary Health. Dr. Xue has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers in recent 5 years.

Prof. Feng Zhang, Deputy Dean

School of Public Health - Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Prof. Zhang is the Deputy Dean of School of Public Health, Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center. His research areas mainly focus on the pathogenesis of chronic bone & joint diseases and biostatistics approaches. He has undertaken the Key project of international cooperation among governments in scientific and technological innovation, 5 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China (including the Outstanding Youth Science Foundation). By now, he has published over 60 papers as the first /corresponding authors (cumulative IF = 210.95). His first /corresponding author papers have been cited by the papers of Science (2015, 2016), PNAS (2014), etc. In 2017, he won the second prize of “Award of science and technology of Shaanxi Province” (1th member), and the “Youth Science and Technology Award of Shaanxi Province”. He published 3 academic monographs and textbooks, including one as associate editor. He was selected as the Vice Director of Youth Committee of the Endemic Diseases Branch of Chinese Medical Association, communication member of the editorial board of Chinese Journal of Endemiology, etc.

Dr. Ying Zhang, Associate Professor

Student Life Academic Director (Central Precinct), Sydney School of Public Health – The University of Sydney, Australia

Bio: A/Prof Ying Zhang is a senior epidemiologist and a dedicated researcher on climate change and global health. She has led national and international projects with over 100 publications. She has been the co-chair of the MJA-Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change in Australia since 2017. She is the founder and convenor of the Sustainability, Climate and Health Collaboration group at University of Sydney, Elected Councilor and Treasurer of the Australasian Epidemiological Association. Prime Minister Endeavor Fellowship awardee. 

Dr. Shan Zheng, Associate Professor

Institute of Epidemiology and Statistics, School of Public Health - Lanzhou University, China

Shan Zheng, PhD, is an Associate Professor in School of Public Health at Lanzhou University of China. He received a Ph.D. in Applied Meteorology and a Master of Medicine in Epidemiology and Health Statistics from Lanzhou University in 2013 and 2010, respectively, and studied at Yale University School of Medicine in 2019. His research interest is climate change and human health, with special attention to the influence of outdoor environmental factors on cardiovascular disease. He has been the PI for the grants of National Natural Science Foundation of China and has published more than 20 articles in the field of environment and health.

Dr. Huachen Zhu, Associate Professor

School of Public Health - The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong, China; Adjunct Professor, Shantou University, China

Dr Huachen Zhu is a tenured Associate Professor at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and an Adjunct Professor at the Shantou University (STU). She serves as Associate Director of the Joint Institute of Virology (STU/HKU) and Co-director of Joint Laboratory for International Collaboration in Virology and Emerging Infectious Diseases. Dr Zhu’s research field is focused on mechanisms that lead to the virus emergence at the human and animal interface. In the past few years, she has identified the zoonotic sources, transmission routes, evolutionary pathways and molecular basis leading to the genesis of multiple severe viral threats to human health.