Read more about some of the work by ANU researchers on how health, wellbeing and disasters using the links below - 

Key Highlight

HEAL 2021 - Healthy Environments And Lives Conference, 17-18 November 2021

Led by ANU and twenty-four partner institutions from across Australia, the HEAL 2021 Conference aims to provide an inspirational forum for knowledge transfer, scientific debate, and community-wide conversations about human health, climate and environmental change solutions. It will involve researchers, policy makers, health practitioners, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations, communities and businesses from across Australia. For more information, please refer to the Conference brochure, or contact Professor Sotiris Vardoulakis: sotiris.vardoulakis@anu.edu.au

Media articles

• Australia needs a public health plan to address bushfire smoke impacts, cardiologist says
• Greater risk for babies born during natural disasters
• ANU Bushfire Impact team to be awarded the Sidney Sax Medal
• How to protect yourself and others from bushfire smoke
• National approach “urgently needed’ for smoke pollution
• Cyclone baby study to help pregnant women during disasters

Event recordings

• Workshops on the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements
  • Workshop #4 - Health and disasters: a hypothetical discussion

Videos

• Australia's 'Pandemic Whisperer' Associate Professor Kamalini Lokuge wins 2021 ANU Alumna of the Year