Professor Tony McMichael

Tony McMichael directs the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, at The Australian National University, Canberra. He is a medical graduate from Adelaide University, with a PhD in epidemiology from Monash University. He was previously Professor of Epidemiology at the internationally-renowned London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. When returning to Australia in 2001, he received a 5-year Burnet Award from the National Health and Medical Research Council.

His research interests have spanned occupational diseases, studies of diet and cancer, environmental health risks and, more recently, the health impacts of global environmental change. During 1993-2001 he chaired the assessment of health risks for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and is now doing likewise for the international Millennium Ecosystem Assessment project. This recent work, on global environmental changes, has focused particularly on the larger-scale determinants of infectious disease patterns around the world.

His most recent book is "Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease: Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures", Cambridge University Press (2001).