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The image below shows how my research outputs have been tagged using a comprehensive framework for Climate Change and Health Impact Assessment. I also tag each research output using the type of environmental risk factor (e.g. drought, bushfires, heat etc).

Source: McMichael, A., Berry, H., Butler, C., Capon, A., Dear, K., Hanigan, I.C., Lucas, R. & Strazdins, L. (2008). Assessing the scale and nature of health vulnerability to climate change. Technical report for WHO global consultation on ‘Guiding research to improve health protection from climate change’. World Health Organisation, Geneva. (D. Campbell-Lendrum & R. Bertollini, Eds.).

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• 01-baseline-climate-health-association (4)
• 02-detect-emerging-impacts (1)
• 03-estimate-current-climate-change-burden (2)
• 04-predict-future-risks (2)
• 05-assess-adaptive-strategies (2)
• Climate-change (3)
• drought (9)
• engagement (1)
• grants (2)
• heat (5)
• multiple-cumulative-exposures (1)
• research (2)

Latest Posts

• 22 Mar 2024: mja-lancet-countdown-2023

  MJA-Lancet countdown report for 2023

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  tags: research Climate-change

• 16 Nov 2023: lancet-regional-health-western-pacific

  Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific climate health impacts and policy options

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  tags: research Climate-change

• 01 Nov 2023: consulting-national-health-climate-strategy

  Consulting with the Australian Government National, Health, Sustainability and Climate Unit to develop the National Health and Climate Strategy.

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  tags: grants Climate-change

• 24 Sep 2023: secondment-to-un-cop28

  Secondment to the UN COP28 Health Team, Funding awarded from NHMRC HEAL Network and Curtin University

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  tags: grants 05-assess-adaptive-strategies

• 14 Jun 2023: drought-csiro-indicators-advisory

  Meeting with Simone Felton and David A. Fleming Munoz from CSIRO

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  tags: engagement drought

• 13 May 2023: Heat and violence

  Just heard the great news the excellent PhD student Heather Stevens published another paper from her thesis which I co-supervised with primary supervisor Paul Beggs. Heather’s thesis was passed last year. Well done Heather!

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  tags: heat heat

• 01 Apr 2022: heat-climate-change-urban-heat-island

  Chaston, T. B., Broome, R. A., Cooper, N., Duck, G., Geromboux, C., Guo, Y., Ji, F., Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S., Zhang, Y., Dissanayake, G. S., Morgan, G. G., & Hanigan, I. C. (2022). Mortality burden of heatwaves in Sydney, Australia is exacerbated by the urban heat island and climate change: Can tree cover help mitigate the health impacts? Atmosphere, 13(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13050714

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  tags: 04-predict-future-risks heat

• 01 Apr 2022: drought-suicide-climate-change

  We estimated future impacts estimated under various climate change scenarios. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137855

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  tags: drought drought

• 01 Apr 2022: Drought and health countdown 2022

  Beggs, P.J., Zhang, Y., McGushin, A., Trueck, S., Linnenluecke, M.K., Bambrick, H., Capon, A.G., Vardoulakis, S., Green, D., Malik, A., Jay, O., Heenan, M., Hanigan, I.C., Friel, S., Stevenson, M., Johnston, F.H., McMichael, C., Charlson, F., Woodward, A.J. and Romanello, M.B. (2022), The 2022 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Australia unprepared and paying the price. Med J Aust, 217: 439-458. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51742

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  tags: 03-estimate-current-climate-change-burden drought

• 01 Apr 2022: climate change aboriginal health

  Groups who experience social and economic inequity including Aboriginal1 peoples will be disproportionately affect by climate change. More Aboriginal peoples live in NSW than in any other Australian state or territory and improving Aboriginal health is a primary focus for the NSW health system. Understanding the impact of climate on the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal peoples is key to the development of adaptation strategies and responses to reduce these impacts under the influence of a changing climate.

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  tags: 04-predict-future-risks multiple-cumulative-exposures

• 01 Apr 2021: Urban heat island mortality greening

  Chaston, T. B., Broome, R. A., Cooper, N., Duck, G., Geromboux, C., Guo, Y., Ji, F., Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S., Zhang, Y., Dissanayake, G. S., Morgan, G. G., & Hanigan, I. C. (2022). Mortality burden of heatwaves in Sydney, Australia is exacerbated by the urban heat island and climate change: Can tree cover help mitigate the health impacts? Atmosphere, 13(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13050714

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  tags: 05-assess-adaptive-strategies heat

• 01 Apr 2021: Observed climate change warming and deaths

  Hanigan, I.C., Dear, K. B. G., Woodward, A. (2021). Increased ratio of summer to winter deaths due to climate warming in Australia, 1968–2018. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.13107

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  tags: 02-detect-emerging-impacts heat

• 01 Apr 2020: Drought and health NSW environmental health indicators

  Hanigan, I.C., Geromboux, C., Horsley, J., Phelan, S., Jegasothy, E., Heathcote, K. and Morgan, G.G. (2020). Environmental health indicators for selected environmental risk/health outcome pairs in New South Wales. Human Health and Social Impacts (HHSI) Node of the NSW Adaptation Research Hub. The NSW Adaptation Research Hub is a collaboration between universities, climate-change and adaptation science experts, NSW Health, and the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE). https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/YJ98D

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  tags: 03-estimate-current-climate-change-burden drought

• 01 Apr 2018: drought-and-distress-victoria

  Hanigan, I. C., Schirmer, J., & Niyonsenga, T. (2018). Drought and Distress in Southeastern Australia. EcoHealth. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-018-1339-0

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  tags: drought 01-baseline-climate-health-association

• 01 Apr 2015: Drought and depression - no association in older women

  Powers, J. R., Dobson, A. J., Berry, H. L., Graves, A. M., Hanigan, I. C., and Loxton, D. (2015). Lack of association between drought and mental health in a cohort of 45-61 year old rural Australian women. ANZJPH. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1111/1753-6405.12369

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  tags: 01-baseline-climate-health-association drought

• 01 Apr 2014: Drought and mental health – rural vs urban

  O’Brien, L. V., Berry, H. L., Coleman, C., and Hanigan, I. C. (2014). Drought as a mental health exposure. Environmental Research, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.envres.2014.03.014

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  tags: 01-baseline-climate-health-association drought

• 01 Apr 2013: Heat, Mortality and Morbidity

  Back in 2010 my team published this paper which includes a comparison of the health impact from heatwaves measured using:

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  tags: heat heat

• 01 Apr 2012: drought-and-suicide

  Hutchinson’s Drought Index used between 1970-2007 and suicide by age, sex and region. Drought was associated with increased suicide risk in rural men, but decreased risk in rural women. https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1073/pnas.1112965109

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  tags: drought drought

• 01 Apr 2006: Drought and suicide NSW first study

  Nicholls, N., Butler, C. D., & Hanigan, I. (2006). Inter-annual rainfall variations and suicide in New South Wales, Australia, 1964-2001. International Journal of Biometeorology, 50(3), 139–143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-005-0002-y

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  tags: 01-baseline-climate-health-association drought