Queensland University of Technology
Lidia Morawska is a Distinguished Professor and Australian Laureate Fellow in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, at the Queensland University of Technology. She conducts fundamental and applied research in the interdisciplinary field of air quality and its impact on human health and the environment, with a specific focus on science of airborne particulate matter. Lidia has been involved at the executive level with a number of relevant national/international professional bodies, is a member of the Australian Academy of Science, Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of Biology and acting as an advisor to the World Health Organization. Lidia is Centre Director for the ARC Training Centre for Advanced Building Systems Against Airborne Infection Transmission (THRIVE) hosted at QUT.
Dwan is an environmental epidemiologist and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland's Child Health Research Centre. In 2025 Dwan was awarded a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Centre for Safe Air to implement evidence-based public health responses to bushfire smoke. With bushfires becoming more frequent, there's an urgent need for effective public health measures. Current advice to stay indoors may not reduce exposure to harmful smoke particles. Consumers want a practical kit to manage smoke exposure. Dwan's project will create affordable kits with materials for a box filter fan, a handbook, and family-friendly resources. Through a series of workshops, communities will learn how to use the kits, and 40 households will test them. The final kits will be distributed through workshops and online resources to help improve health resilience. with a particular interest in children's environmental health.
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