Policy analyst
Sotiris Vardoulakis is Director of the Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) National Research Network and Professor of Environmental Public Health at the University of Canberra Health Research Institute. He is co-Director of the Clean Environment for Planetary Health in Asia, and the Clean Energy for Healthy Environments And Lives Partnerships. Previously he was Research Director at the Institute of Occupational Medicine in Edinburgh and Head of the Environmental Change Department at Public Health England. Vardoulakis’ research interests include climate change, air pollution, sustainable cities, exposure analysis, health impact assessment, environmental health policy and communication. He was a lead author of the first UK Climate Change Risk Assessment and the National Adaptation Plan. He is a Coordinating Lead Author of the UNEP Global Environmental Outlook 7 (Air Chapter).
Neal is research scientist and PhD student in the Curtin University School of Population Health, serving within the WHO Collaborating Centre for Climate Change and Health Impact Assessment. Prior to joining the Centre, Neal served for over 20 years as a risk assessor and epidemiologist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he co-developed the environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program at the US EPA, an open-source tool used worldwide to quantify the number and economic value of climate and air pollution-related deaths and illnesses. Neal also developed many of the methods EPA used to quantify and monetise the impacts of air pollution and climate change.
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