Professor Hilary Bambrick
PhD; BA (Hons); BSc; Grad Cert Higher Ed
Director, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
ANU College of Health and Medicine
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02 6125 2837
Areas of expertise
- Epidemiology 111706
Research interests
Health impacts of climate change and variability (scenario-based modelling and strategic planning)
- asthma and allergy
- vector-borne disease
- impacts on indigenous communities and other vulnerable groups
- urban adaptation opportunities
Role of the natural and built environment in disease prevention and health promotion
- obesity and physical activity
- healthy ageing
- climate
- housing
- urban design
- transport
Biography
Professor Hilary Bambrick is Director of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health.
Researcher's projects
CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship - Health Cluster
Thermal stress, urban environments and health http://climatehealthcluster.org/?page_id=29
NHMRC Project Grant
Health impacts of climate change on Indigenous Australians. Identifying climate thresholds to enable the development of informed adaptation strategies.
NHMRC Project Grant
Obesity, overweight and hospitalisation: Identifying interventions to prevent adverse health outcomes.
NHMRC Capacity Building Grant
OSPREY: Building capacity for research to improve health services for mothers, babies and children.
NHMRC Preventive Healthcare and Strengthening Australia’s Social and Economic Fabric Strategic Awards
Understanding the impact of social, economic and geographic disadvantage on the health of Australians in mid to later life: Where are the opportunities for prevention?
Publications
- Ng, S, Korda, R, Clements, M et al 2011, 'Validity of self-reported height and weight and derived body mass index in middle-aged and elderly individuals in Australia', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 557-563.
- Lucas, R, Bambrick, H, Gatenby, P et al. 2010, 'Recruiting Child Controls', Epidemiology, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 271-272.
- Bambrick, H, Woodruff, R & Hanigan, I 2009, 'Climate change could threaten blood supply by altering the distribution of vector-borne disease: an Australian case-study', Global Health Action, vol. Dec 10, no. 2, pp. 1-11.
- D'Souza, R, Bambrick, H, Kjellstrom, T et al 2007, 'Seasonal variation in acute hospital admissions and emergency room presentations among children in the Australian Capital Territory', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 359-65.
- McMichael, A & Bambrick, H 2007, 'Greenhouse-gas costs of clinical trials', Lancet, The (UK edition), vol. 369, no. 9573, pp. 1584-5.
- Bambrick, H 2006, 'Are boys more vulnerable to nutritional stress? Child weight growth in a Queensland Aboriginal community (1950-1982) in comparison with the new WHO references', Australian Indigenous Health Bulletin, vol. 6, no. 3, p. 13.
- Beggs, P & Bambrick, H 2006, 'Será o crescimento mundial de incidênciada asma um impacto antecipado de mudançasclimáticas antropogênicas?', Ciencia & Saude Coletiva, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 745-752.
- Bambrick, H, Faunce, T & Johnston, K 2006, 'Potential impact of AUSFTA on Australia's blood supply', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 185, no. 6, pp. 320-323.
- Faunce, T, Johnston, K & Bambrick, H 2006, 'The Trans-Tasman Therapeutic Products Authority: Potential AUSFTA Impacts on Safety and Cost-Effectiveness Regulation for Medicines and Medical Devices in New Zealand', Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 365-389.
- Bambrick, H, D'Souza, R & Woodruff, R 2006, 'Back to School and Off to Hospital: Childhood Asthma and the Return-To-School Effect', Epidemiology, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. S275.
- D'Souza, R, Bambrick, H, Woodruff, R et al. 2006, 'Emergency Hospital Admissions of Cardiovascular Disease and Heart Failure in 3 Australian Cities: Are They Associated With Climatic Factors?', Epidemiology, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. S127.
- D'Souza, R, Becker, N, Hall, G et al 2005, 'Climatic factors associated with hospitalisations and emergency room presentations for diarrhoea in children', <>, pp. S60.
- D'Souza, R, Becker, N, Kjellstrom, T et al 2005, 'Influence of climatic factors on hospitalisations and emergency room presentations for asthma and other (non-asthma) respiratory conditions in children', <>, pp. S50.
- Bambrick, H 2005, 'Relationships between BMI, waist circumference, hypertension and fasting glucose: Rethinking risk factors in Indigenous diabetes', Australian Indigenous Health Bulletin, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1-15.
- Bambrick, H 2005, 'Is globalisation bad for your health?', Home Economics Institute of Australia. Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 21-24.
- Bambrick, H 2004, 'Type 2 diabetes and patterns of alcohol use in a Queensland Aboriginal community', Australian Indigenous Health Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 1-7.
- Bambrick, H 2003, 'Globalisation: Public health threats - and opportunities', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 654-655.
- Bambrick, H 2003, 'Child growth and Type 2 diabetes in a Queensland Aboriginal community', Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 2003/2, pp. 93-101.
- Bambrick, H 2001, 'Prevalence of diagnosed and undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes in a Queensland Aboriginal community', Australian Indigenous Health Bulletin, vol. 1, no. 1.
- Bambrick, H 2001, 'Book review: Health and social science: a transdisciplinary and complexity perspective', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 162-164.
- Bambrick, H 2000, 'Relationships between early life health and later adult illness: Type 2 diabetes in an Aboriginal community', Behavioral Medicine and Public Health in the New Millennium, ed. Lundberg, U., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, p. 7.
