Hilary Bambrick is an environmental epidemiologist and anthropologist with a distinguished career in research, teaching and supervision, and academic leadership over 25 years and at three distinct institutions.

Professor Bambrick is nationally and internationally recognised for her work on climate change and health.  Her expertise lies in adaptation strategies for building resilience, ranging from small community-led interventions to multi-nation cross-sectoral plans.

She regularly consults and provides expert advice for governments in Australia and overseas on climate and health risk assessment and adaptation. She has also worked as an international consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), adaptation.

Professor Bambrick led the health impacts assessment for Australia’s only national assessment of climate change to date, the Garnaut Climate Change Review (2008) and the Climate Adaptation Strategy for Health for Samoa (2013).

In 2022, she served as an expert witness in the pivotal decision of the Queensland Land Court to disallow a coal mine expansion based on its potential health and human rights impacts on First Nations communities, children and young people.

Professor Bambrick is an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) Assessment Reports and has served as an expert witness in three Commonwealth parliamentary inquiries. She has also led, contributed to and reviewed several Australian State health adaptation plans.

Her work has taken throughout Australia (urban, rural, and remote, including Torres Strait and other First Nations communities), the Pacific (Samoa, Kiribati and Fiji), Ethiopia (informal communities), and Asia (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Timor-Leste), where she has engaged with diverse communities and stakeholders.

Professor Bambrick has authored over 180 research publications (h-index 30, i-10 index 81) and has been a lead investigator in approximately $11 million successful research funding. Her doctoral thesis (ANU, 2003) took a life course perspective on health, examining sociopolitical history, child growth and subsequent risk of adult diabetes in a First Nations community.

I am an award-winning researcher and teacher, sought-after public speaker and media commentator. In June 2016 she was appointed to Australia’s independent Climate Council and I she has served as a non-Executive Director on the Research Committee of The Australia Institute since 2012.