Centre Affiliate

Christine Cowie is an environmental epidemiologist working in the field of air pollution epidemiology with the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and is a conjoint research fellow with UNSW School of Clinical Medicine and an affiliate with the Centre for Safe Air. Christine is particularly interested in the health effects of traffic related exposures, as well as other urban air pollution impacts, including wood heater emissions. She has expertise in exposure assessment, epidemiological study design and implementation, and seeks to conduct research with policy relevance. She has taught environmental health at UNSW and the University of Sydney and, prior to research, worked for over a decade in environmental health policy for the NSW Health Ministry.

Penny Jones holds dual positions as a Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Health at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research and a Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences in the School of Natural Sciences. She has a multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary background, combining government experience in environmental policy with research spanning fire ecology, palaeoecology, archaeology, aerobiology and most recently, environmental health. Currently, her core research focus is the intersection of the atmospheric environment and human health, particularly in terms of pollen, poor air quality and the aerial microbiome, and she has played a lead role in the AirRater smartphone application. She is also passionate about teaching, and developed and now coordinates the unit KPZ104 Living with Fire.

Dr Nigel Goodman is a Senior Research Fellow in Air Quality and Health based in the Health Research Institute at the University of Canberra. He is an air quality scientist with expertise in reducing human exposure to the sources of indoor and outdoor air pollution. Nigel is member of the Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL) National Research Network, where he helps to address the impacts of air pollution associated with climate and environmental change, on human health.

Kathy Heathcote is an experienced academic with a demonstrated history of working in NSW and QLD health services and in University sectors. Her skills lie in the fields of epidemiology, population health, evidence-based practice (EBP) and research design. Her research interests lie in addressing health disparities and preventable factors underlying rural and urban variations in health, health care and health outcomes.

Annabelle (Belle) Workman completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Melbourne in 2008, majoring in Politics and Chinese. Belle worked for the National Health and Medical Research Council for five years in clinical practice guidelines and research translation before completing her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2019. Belle's research investigated the role of health co-benefits in the development of climate change mitigation policies. She developed case studies for Australia, the European Union, China and the United States of America, identifying barriers and opportunities to enhance the political traction of health in mitigation policy development. Belle completed a Research Fellowship at the University of Tasmania's Menzies Institute for Medical Research, evaluating the environmental health smartphone app, AirRater. She has worked with the University of Tasmania's sustainability team and most recently worked as a knowledge broker at the Centre for Air pollution, energy and health Research (CAR). She returned to the University of Melbourne in October 2021 as a Research Fellow with Melbourne Climate Futures.