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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 7196
Email
alex.macmillan@otago.ac.nz

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Position
Professor
Department
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine (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

Drew, J., Cleghorn, C., Macmillan, A., & Mizdrak, A. (2020). Healthy and climate-friendly eating patterns in the New Zealand context. Environmental Health Perspectives, 128(1), 017007. doi: 10.1289/ehp5996 Journal - Research Article

Bennett, H., Macmillan, A., Jones, R., Blaiklock, A., & McMillan, J. (2020). Should health professionals participate in civil disobedience in response to the climate change health emergency? Lancet, 395(10220), 304-308. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(19)32985-x Journal - Research Article

Macmillan, A., Smith, M., Witten, K., Woodward, A., Hosking, J., Wild, K., & Field, A. (2020). Suburb-level changes for active transport to meet the SDGs: Causal theory and a New Zealand case study. Science of the Total Environment, 714, 136678. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136678 Journal - Research Article

Hawley, G., Macmillan, A., Field, A., Hodgson, R., Witten, K., Kearns, R. A., & McKerchar, C. (2020). The normative influence of adults on youth access: Challenges and opportunities in the context of shifts away from car-dependence. Journal of Transport & Health, 16, 100841. doi: 10.1016/j.jth.2020.100841 Journal - Research Article

Harrison, S., Macmillan, A., & Rudd, C. (2020). Framing climate change and health: New Zealand's online news media. Health Promotion International, 35, 1320-1330. doi: 10.1093/heapro/daz130 Journal - Research Article

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