Geography and time-specific health data for environmental analysis

Acknowledgements

The geography and time-specific health data for environmental analysis project was prepared by members of the Prevention and Environmental Health Unit including Imogen Halstead, Peter Marlton, David Wong and Vanessa Prescott. Thanks to Louise Gates for reviewing the report and Sonam Shelley and Dian Xu for analysis support.

For expert advice on the project, the authors thank members of the Bushfire and Health Data Expert Advisory Group, including Paula Fievez (Frontier SI), Arnagretta Hunter (Australian National University), Fay Johnston (University of Tasmania/Centre for Safe Air), Yuming Guo (Monash Climate, Air Quality Research Unit/Centre for Safe Air), Ivan Hanigan (WHO Collaborating Centre for Climate Change and Health Impact Assessment, Curtin University/Centre for Safe Air), Guy Marks (University of New South Wales/Centre for Safe Air), Kerrie Mengersen (QUT), Geoff Morgan (University of Sydney/Centre for Safe Air), and Sotiris Vardoulakis (Australian National University/Healthy Environment and Lives Network).

A range of other people provided contributions to the project in a variety of ways, including: Sarah Ahmed, Georgie Amoyal, Tylie Bayliss, Harriet Boyd Taylor, Doreen Busingye, Jeanice Branch, Louise Catanzariti, Heidi Dietz, Michael De Looper, Deanna Eldridge, Madeline Estell, Kathrine Faulks, Roxanne Foster, Breanna Harnetty, Jenna Haddin, Karen Higgins, Wendy Ho, Kerry Ireland, Jen Mayhew-Larsen, Caleb Leung, Sophie Lindquist, Miriam Lum On, Alistair Merrifield, Kevin Monahan, Paul Montgomery, Niall O’Driscoll, Joo Shan Ong, Marc Pettingill, James Pearce, Michael Phanprachit, Filippa Pretty, Jason Thomson, Esther Qiu, Naila Rahman, Christopher Rompotis, Brie Sage, Claire Sparke, Ross Saunders, Heather Swanston, Helen Tse, Bill Watson, Kristian Weissel, David Whitelaw, Alison Watters, Imaina Widagdo, Cecilia Xu, Brigitta Yabsley, Kevin Yeo, Amy Young, and the Website and Publications team.

The AIHW thanks the project partners and in-kind contributors to the project including, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the Centre for Air pollution energy and health Research (CAR), FrontierSI, the Healthy Environment and Lives (HEAL) Network, the Australian National University (ANU) and the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.

Project beneficiaries and supporters included the WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Impact Assessment (Curtin University), the Climate, Air Quality Research (CARE, Monash University), the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the National Recovery and Resilience Agency (NRRA), AusEnHealth and the New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment.

The project received investment from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). The ARDC is funded by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).