The Adaptation Research Network for Human Health

Recognising that climate change poses direct and indirect risks to human health the network works to facilitate collaboration between researchers, policymakers and practitioners to strengthen Australia's capacity to anticipate and mitigate the human health consequences of climate change.

The network aims to foster interdisciplinary research and emerging research methods, for example time-series methods, spatial analyses, systems-based modelling of complex ecological relationships and processes, and scenario-based modelling of future health risks.

The Adaptation Research Network for Human Health is hosted by NCEPH

For more information see the network website

People: Prof Tony Capon, Dr Peter Thomas

The Climate and Health Cluster

The Climate and Health Cluster has been established to bring together scientists and researchers from a range of disciplines to develop adaptation strategies for safeguarding the health of urban populations in the face of a variable and changing climate. The Cluster is made up of seven different projects looking at a diverse range of research areas including urban food systems, urban transport systems, air pollution and the distribution of mosquitos. The Climate and Health Cluster is a partnership between eight different institutions and is hosted by NCEPH.

For more information see the cluster website

People: Prof Tony Capon, Dr Peter Thomas

AusAID Australian Development Research Awards (ADRA)

AusAID Australian Development Research Awards (ADRA) research project entitled, Evaluating the Connections and Contributions of Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments to Adaptation Strategies in the Health and Water Sectors. The project aims to investigate the extent to which current adaptation activities in the health and water sectors are well informed by an understanding of who is most vulnerable to climate change and why, with a particular focus on the health and water dimensions of climate change. The Principal Investigator - Prof. Tony McMichael, and Ms Kathryn Bowen and Dr Fiona Miller (University of Melbourne) are co-investigators on the project. The project commenced in late 2009 and goes for three years (see attached brochure).

The project is being undertaken in three case study countries, two in Southeast Asia (Cambodia and Vietnam) and one in the Pacific (Fiji).