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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 7196
Email
alex.macmillan@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor
Department
Department of Public Health (Dunedin)
Qualifications
MB ChB MPH(Hons) PhD FNZCPHM
Research summary
Environmental health: Integrating human and environmental wellbeing in urban planning
Teaching

PUBH 733 Environment and Health

Research

Alex Macmillan is a Professor in Environmental Health. She trained in Medicine and is a Public Health Physician. Her research focuses on the links between urban environments, sustainability and health. Her main interests are in translating evidence about sustainability and health into policy by bringing together policy, community and academic knowledge and modelling future policy options. Particular areas of interest are transport, urban planning and housing policies. Alex is also involved in community based epidemiological research to understand the impacts of changing urban environments. She is an honorary senior research associate at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, University College London.

Current research projects include:

Publications

Said, A., Khan, M., Estol, C., Wasay, M., Kameda, T., Ullberg, T., … Kang, J., Macmillan, A., Kingston, D., Stephenson, J., … Ranta, A. (2026). Stroke and climate change: A World Stroke Organization scientific statement [Review]. International Journal of Stroke. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/17474930261436535 Journal - Research Article

Jacob, A. E., Drew, J., Macmillan, A., & Cleghorn, C. (2026). Updating greenhouse gas emission estimates in the New Zealand-specific dietary life cycle-assessment (LCA) database. Environmental Research Communications, 8(1), 014502. doi: 10.1088/2515-7620/ae36f5 Journal - Research Article

Shaw, C., Gage, R., Miller, A., Cullerton, K., & Macmillan, A. (2026). Commercial influences on healthy transport: Interest group engagement with transport ministers in Aotearoa/New Zealand 2017-2022. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 37, e70140. doi: 10.1002/hpja.70140 Journal - Research Article

Macmillan, A. (2025, August). Towards healthy and just action on climate change: “Barely faster than the speed of a bicycle”. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Inaugural Professorial Lecture]. Other Research Output

Pagani, A., Walker, A., Macmillan, A., Nita, A., Davies, M., & Zimmermann, N. (2025). Identifying leverage points in the social housing system: Housing associations on the path towards degrowth? Ecological Economics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108841 Journal - Research Article

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