Professor Emeritus Steve Hrudey

 
Dr Hrudey is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta. His areas of expertise include drinking water safety, environmental contaminant exposure assessment, approaches for health risk assessment, risk management and risk communication. (Course 1 & 2)

Professor Anthony McMichael

Professor McMichael currently holds and Australia Fellowship (2007-2012) from NHMRC at ANU, is Honorary Professor in Climate Change and Human Health at the University of Copenhagen, and Honorary Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.   His primary research focus is on global climate change, environmental conditions and human health. (Course 2)

Dr Andrew Langley

Dr Langley is Public Health Physician and Director, Centre for Disease Control, Central Zone Public Health Network (Sunshine Coast). He is a member of National Health & Medical Research Council's Health Advisory Committee. (Course 2)

Professor Alistair Woodward  

Prof Woodward has
been Head of the School of Population Health at University of Auckland, New Zealand since 2004.  Research interests include tobacco, radio-frequency radiation and health, transporyt and injury, and climate change.  He has worked for the WHO throughout the Pacific, and was on the writing team of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th assessment reports of the IPCC. (Course 2)

Dr Peter Di Marco

Dr Di Marco is principal Toxicologist at Golder Associates Pty Ltd, Perth office. Peter's main interest is risk assessment and chemical management. (Course 2)

Dr Richard Walker

Dr Walker has over 36 years experience in the water industry. Since 2000 Richard has been Manager Drinking Water Quality for WaterCorp (WA). He played a key role in implementing the 1996 and 2004 Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (ADWG) across the state. A member of the Advisory Committee for the Purity of Water (peak water quality body in WA), he was recently involved in the review 2010 ADWG. (Course 1)

Professor Brian Priestly

Prof Priestly is Director
(now part-time) of the Australian Centre for Human Health Risk Assessment (ACHHRA), a group within the School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine at Monash University. Brian has engaged with various Commonwealth & State government agencies on health risk assessment (HRA) projects and assisted with HRA guideline development associated with air quality, water recycling, contaminated sites, chemicals regulation and nanotechnology. (Course 2)

Captain Alvin Chun

Captain Chun is Director, National Center for Risk Communication and Public Involvement in the USEPA, San Francisco. Al's 30 yr career with the US Public Health Service has taken him to many positions in the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and with the US Environmental Protection Agency. His work has involved working with people as an investigator, industrial hygiene engineer, environmental engineer, management analyst, manager, mentor, public speaker and trainer. (Course 3)

Local guest speakers

Professor Nancy Cromar

Nancy is Professor in Environmental Health at Flinders University. Her research focus is on health-related aspects of water quality and microbiological risk assessment with specific interest in survival of pathogenic microorganisms in aquatic environments. She has recently been involved in drafting the ‘Guidelines for Microbiological Water Quality in Recreational Environments' in Australia for NHMRC. Dr Cromar is the senior editor of the new Oxford University Press text ‘Environmental Health in Australia and New Zealand'. She has been Convenor of the National Short Courses in Environmental Health since 1996 and an ‘expert member' of the Public & Environmental Health Council of SA since 1995. She also sits on the advisory board for the AIEH journal Environmental Health.

Assoc Professor Dino Pisaniello

Dino is Associate Professor in the Dept of Public Health at The University of Adelaide. His area of interest is Occupational & Environmental Health & Safety.
Dino is the Chairman of the Congress of Occupational Safety and Health Association Presidents (COSHAP) and a Past President of the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists. He is Secretary of the Scientific Committee of Work and Vision of the International Commission on Occupational Health. He is the Director of the Occupational and Environmental Hygiene Laboratory and manages OEH Consulting and the Collaborative Centre in Occupational Health and Safety at the Thebarton Campus. He is also the Chief Technical Advice Coordinator (Hazardous Materials Incidents) for the Metropolitan Fire Service and the Country Fire Service.

Professor Don Bursill

Don Bursill has had
some 40 years experience in the water industry in Australia, mostly in SAWater. In 2005, he stepped down as its Chief Scientist - a position he had held for 17 years. His experience is focused mainly on water quality, water treatment and water resources management. He led a national team that successfully established the CRCWQT under the Australian Government's CRC program and was CEO of that Centre from 1995-2005.

Assoc Professor Scott Cameron

Scott is Clinical
Assoc Professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Adelaide, and Senior Lecturer at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University. His research Interests are Foodborne disease epidemiology, Outbreak investigation methods, Ross River virus epidemiology in South Australia & Potential for Hantavirus infection in Australia.

Assoc Professor John Edwards

BSc Hons (Adelaide); PhD (Adelaide). John's teaching background is in pharmacology, toxicology and occupational and environmental health. His research interests lie in the fields of monitoring of occupational and environmental exposure to chemicals, particularly pesticides and solvents, and the biochemical and cytogenetic effects these chemicals may cause. He also supervises research students investigating the relationship between environmental chemical exposures and asthma in children. Dr Edwards is president elect of the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists.

Dr Monika Nitschke

Dr Monika Nitschke is a principal scientific officer with the SA Department of Health. Her background includes chemistry, biology and public health with a special emphasis on environmental epidemiology. She gained her PhD from Adelaide University in 2003 which examined the health impacts of emissions from unflued gas heaters. Monika's interest in epidemiology includes health effects from air pollution indoors and outdoors, noise, and more recently, the impact of heatwaves on mortality and morbidity. Monika reperesents the Department of Health on climate change matters, especially related to adaptive policies.  

Assoc Professor Richard Bentham

Associate Professor Bentham teaches public health microbiology, bioremediation and solid waste management. His research interests encompass ecology and control of Legionella in water and soil systems, health risk assessment, and the bioremediation of contaminated soil. Dr Bentham is a member of the South Australian Legionella Advisory Committee and a deputy to the Public and Environmental Health Council. He has several years experience of consultancy in relation to Legionella control, and risk assessment in industrial settings. He has research and consultancy experience of both pilot and full scale bioremediation of contaminated soil using composting, biopile phyto remediation and landfarm strategies

Dr Alana Hansen

University of Adelaide, Alana recently completed a PhD entitled, 'Risk assessment in Adelaide based on weather, air pollution and population health outcomes.'

Brian Haddy 

Brian has been an environmental activist for 25 years, with involvement in campaigns from the Franklin Dam blockade in the early 80's to the Mt Barker Foundry dispute in South Australia in the late 90's. He has served on the executive of the Conservation Council in Canberra and was the inaugural Chair of The People's Environment Protection Alliance (The People's EPA), a coalition of resident groups fighting industrial pollution issues in various Adelaide suburbs. Brian has been a guest speaker at the National Short Course in Environmental Health on two occasions in recent years.

Emma Denehy

ANU, Department of Health, Adelaide Masters of Applied Epidemiology Scholar. Current research interests include infectious disease epidemiology and outbreak investigations.