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Dr Rosalie Woodruff BAComm (UCAN), Mpop Hlth, PhD (ANU) Current Position: Visiting Fellow 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 2830 F: +61 2 6125 0740 E: Rosalie.Woodruff@anu.edu.au

Research Interests

• Climate change and extreme weather events
• Climate variability and infectious disease occurrence
• Thermal stress: respiratory infections and cardiovascular disease
• Early warning of vertor-borne diseases (Ross River virus disease; dengue)
• Climate and environmental change: vulnerability assessment and adaptation options

 

Selected Recent Publications

McMichael AJ, Woodruff RE, Hales S (2006) Climate change and human health: review of the evidence. The Lancet; 367, 9513:859-869.

Woodruff RE , Guest CS, Garner MG, Becker N, Lindesay J, Carvan T, Ebi KL (In press) Early warning of Ross River virus epidemics: combining climate and mosquito surveillance data. Epidemiology.

Campbell-Lendrum D, Woodruff RE (In press) Quantifying the burden of disease from climate change. Environmental Health Perspectives.

Woodruff RE, McMichael AJ, Hales S (In press) Action on climate change: the human cost of delay. (editorial) Medical Journal of Australia.

Woodruff RE (2005) Early warning systems. In: Ebi K, Smith J, Burton I (eds) Integration of public health with adaptation to climate change: lessons learned and new directions. Taylor & Francis Group, London. pp 91-113.

Amitrano L, Hargreaves R, Page I, Hennessy K, Lee T, Snow M, Winton L, Woodruff R, Kjellstrom T (In press) An Assessment of the Need to Adapt Buildings for the Unavoidable Consequences of Climate Change. A report for the Australian Greenhouse Office, pp. 101.

Woodruff RE, Hales S, Butler C, McMichael AJ (2005) Climate Change Health Impacts in Australia: Effects of Dramatic CO 2 Emission Reductions. Report for the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Australian Medical Association; pp. 44.

Woodruff RE , McMichael AJ (2004) Climate change and human health: All affected, but some more than others. Social Alternatives; 24, 7.

McMichael AJ, Woodruff RE, Whetton P, Hennessy K, Nicholls N, Hales S, Woodward A, Kjellstrom T (2003) Human health and climate change in Oceania: a risk assessment. ISBN 0 642 82179 8. Canberra: Commonwealth Government, pp. 126.

Woodruff RE , Guest CS, Garner MG, Becker N, Lindesay J, Carvan T, Ebi KL (2002) Predicting Ross River virus epidemics from regional weather data. Epidemiology; 13, 4: 384-393.