Professor Alistair Woodward

Professor Alistair Woodward is an epidemiologist and public health doctor with unique specialty on climate change and health. Professor Woodward is also one of the pioneers on climate change and health and has vast and current knowledge on climate change impacts on health along with health co-benefits. Professor Woodward was the Head of the School of Population Health at Auckland from 2004 - 2012, Head of the Department of Public Health at University of Otago, New Zealand, and the University of Adelaide, Australia. Professor Alistair is a researcher and lecturer in environmental health and social determinants of health. He has been closely involved with the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and served as lead author for the Australia and New Zealand chapter in the IPCC 6th Assessment Report on Climate Change. He works with colleagues from China Centre for Disease Control on environmental health issues in China, and in New Zealand he works with colleagues on studies to test the effects of street changes on walking and cycling.  As a public health doctor, he will provide a unique contribution to the CCE TAG in terms of disease outcomes caused by climate change impacts