Contacts
Biography
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Dr Arnagretta Hunter is a physician and academic working across healthcare and public policy. She has worked in cardiology and medicine for several decades and has particular interest in health and climate change. She has been discussing and contributing to debate on catastrophic and existential risk for the past four years through work at the Australian National University.
Raised in Melbourne, Dr Hunter completed a BA(Hons) in international relations before embarking on medicine at the University of Sydney. She undertook medical training and has specialist qualifications as a physician cardiologist. As a doctor she has worked across urban, regional and rural locations in Australia. She is involved with Policy and Advocacy with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and is a member of the Professional Standards Review panel for the Department of Health. In 2019 she received a Bob and June Prickett Churchill Fellowship with focus on narrative in medicine
Dr Hunter joined ANU in 2014 and has been working on the health impacts of climate change. In 2020 she co-chaired the Bushfire Impact Working Group for the College of Health and Medicine Australian National University, a group that won the Sidney Sax Medal for Public Health in 2020. Her work in climate change is wide-ranging including participation in the ANU Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions and the ACT Climate Change Council. She is cohost of the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy ‘Policy Forum Podcast’ on public policy.
She joined NCEPH in late 2023 working with colleagues on the Human Futures Initiative.
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Research
Research interests
- Climate Change and its impacts on health
- Communication and kindness in healthcare
- Catastrophic / existential threats
- Health impacts of public policy
Publications
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Vargas, Nicole; Schlader, Zachary, Jay, Ollie & Hunter, Arnagretta; ‘Prioritize research on human behaviour during extreme heat’ Nature Human Behaviour 2023 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01569-x
Hunter, Arnagretta; Sepasspour, Rumtin, Anderson, Ben; ‘Australia’s National Risk Assessment. Perspectives and recommendations from risk and resilience experts. Published on-line June 2023
Armstrong, Fiona et al; ‘Healthy, regenerative and just” Guiding the development of a national strategy on climate, health and well-being for Australia’ The Journal of Climate Change and Health March-April 2023 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667278223000044
Hunter, Arnagretta ‘Drought, fire, flooding and storms are ravaging Australia. Where can we find hope and connection? The Guardian Dec 2022
Longdon Thomas; Quilty, Simon, Haywood Philip, Hunter, Arnagretta, Gruen Russell; ‘Heat related mortality: an urgent need to recognize and record’ The Lancet Planetary Health Vol 4 (5) May 2020 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542 5196(20)30100-5/fulltext Rosien, Jessica, Hunter Arnagretta & Armstrong Fiona ‘How a ‘new normal’ can create a better, healthier future’ Policy Forum https://www.policyforum.net/how-a-new-normal-can-create-a-better-healthier-future/
Quilty, Simon & Hunter, Arnagretta ‘COVID-19: access to medicines that Australians need’ MJA Insight 3 August 2020 https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2020/30/covid-19-access-to-medicines-that-australians-need/
Hunter, Arnagretta & Hewson, John ‘There are 10 catastrophic threats facing humans right now and coronavirus is only one of them’ The Conversation April 2020
Hunter, Arnagretta, ‘Doctors need to meet the challenge of climate change’ Medical Journal of Australia, Insight. 22 July 2019 https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2019/28/doctors-need-to-meet-challenge-of-climate-change
Lal, Aparna, Patel, Mahomed, Hunter Arnagretta Phillips Christine Towards resilient health systems for increasing climate extremes: insights from the 2019-20 Australian bushfire season. International Journal of Wildland Fire 30(1-5) https://doi.org/10.1071/WF20083
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Teaching
Climate change and health.