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Dr Colin Butler BMedSci(Hons), BMed Newcastle NSW, DTM&H London, MSc (epidemiology) London, DLSH&TM London, PhD ANU Current Position: Associate Professor Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 7175 F: +61 2 6125 0740 Email

Research Interests

• Global change, global economic policy and human health
• Global climate and ecosystem change
• Future health
• Tropical medicine and primary health care
• Communicable diseases: TB, malaria, HIV/AIDS
• Inequality and poverty
• Ecological economics
• Environmental epidemiology and cancer

Selected Recent Publications

Butler CD. Sustainable health for all by the year 2100? International Journal of Public Health (2008) 53: 223–224 http://www.springerlink.com/content/l2707684u5611720/fulltext.pdf

Butler CD. Human health and forests: an overview. In: C. J.P. Colfer (ed.) Human Health and Forests: A Global Overview of Issues, Practice and Policy. London : Earthscan, Bogor, Indonesia, Center for International Forestry Research (C IFOR), 2008; pp 13-33.

McMichael AJ, Powles J, Butler CD, Uauy R. Food, agriculture, energy, climate change and health. Lancet 2007; 370 : 1253-1263. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673607612562/fulltext

Butler CD. North and South, The. In: A. Hedblad (ed) International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, New York : MacMillan Reference USA , 2007; 5: 542-544.

Butler CD, McMichael AJ. Environmental health. In BS Levy, VW Sidel (eds) Social Injustice and Public Health, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006; pp 318-336.

Butler CD. Peering into the fog: ecologic change, human affairs and the future. EcoHealth 2005; 2: 17-21. http://www.springerlink.com/content/x7lp3x5uelaepu32/

Butler CD. Free trade in food: moral and physical hazards. In R.E. Hester, R.M. Harrison (eds) Sustainability in Agriculture; Issues in Environmental Science and Technology. 2005; 21. Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry, pp 103-125.

Butler CD. Human carrying capacity and human health. Public Library of Science Medicine 2004; 1(3) e55: 192-194.
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0010055

McMichael AJ, Butler CD, Folke C: New visions for addressing sustainability, Science 2003; 302: 1919-1920.

Butler CD. Inequality, global change and the sustainability of civilisation. Global Change and Human Health 2000; 1 (2): 156-172. http://www.springerlink.com/content/u51uu862p2388133/?p=d28e228cca6b473b8c3430b03091739c&pi=4

Other activities:

Medical Director, Benevolent Organisation for Development Health and Insight (BODHI) http://www.bodhi.net.au/ (Voluntary position)