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I am an environmental epidemiologist and Senior Research Fellow with the ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç South West Sydney Clinical School and the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research (WIMR) and am affiliated with the NHMRC CRE Centre for Safe Air. My major research focus is in quantifying the health effects of air pollution exposures and developing appropriate tools for exposure measurement. I have a special interest in urban exposures including the health effects of traffic related air pollution, and more recently, the effects of woodsmoke pollution, un unrecognised but highly significant urban source of pollution. Additional research interests also include the effects of indoor emissions from gas appliances, bushfire smoke and investigating the potential for health impacts associated with energy transitions.

I have a broad background in environmental health, encompassing research and teaching in the Master of Public Health (ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç and University of Sydney), and policy implementation with the NSW Health Department for over a decade and environmental health research with a NSW Public Health Unit. My work with the NSW Health Department’s Environmental Health Branch (EHB) focussed on water quality and lead contamination issues and I established and managed the Water Unit within the EHB. This involved developing a new regulatory program for NSW Health when it assumed newly established regulatory powers over the Sydney Water Corporation and the Sydney Catchment Authority. It also involved a major restructure of NSW's drinking water monitoring program and laboratory resources to support the program.Ìý

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