Environmental Health from Local to Global

Keith Dear, MA, MSc, PhD, is a senior fellow at Australian National University College of Medicine, Biology and Environment. Dr. Dear is a biostatistician now working in environmental epidemiology. His current research is on the direct health effects of air quality in general, and temperature in particular, as well as other ways in which climate change will impact on human health. As input to the 2008 Garnaut Climate Change Review, he estimated the likely changes in mortality and morbidity across Australia due to heat and cold out to 2100. He is a member of Australia¿s Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Human Health, leader of NCEPH¿s ¿Air Quality and Health¿ research stream, which studies health impacts of heat and air quality within our broader climate change group, and a contributing author to the IPCC¿s fifth assessment report, currently in preparation.Lunch will be provided.