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Contact Details

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

Macmillan, A., Wright, S., Cleghorn, C., McKerchar, C., & Mulder, I. (2025). SDG2 Zero Hunger and the need to re-think food production in Aotearoa: Viewpoint. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2025.2486053 Journal - Research Other

Pagani, A., Zimmermann, N., Macmillan, A., Zhou, K., & Davies, M. (2025). Systemic issues in the English social housing sector: Mapping interconnected challenges faced by London-based housing associations. Housing Studies. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/02673037.2025.2467093 Journal - Research Article

Miller, A., Osborne, E., Edwards, R., Macmillan, A., & Shaw, C. (2025). The road lobby and unhealthy transport policy discourse in Aotearoa New Zealand: A framing analysis. Journal of Transport & Health, 41, 101999. doi: 10.1016/j.jth.2025.101999 Journal - Research Article

Shaw, C., Randal, E., Macmillan, A., Tripp, D., Miller, A., Woodward, A., & Thu, W. (2024). Improving health and preventing cancer through a better transport system in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2024.2412092 Journal - Research Article

Potiki, M., O'Brien, R., Macmillan, A., Roy, G., Stephenson, J., & Thompson-Fawcett, M. (2024). Whakatō te Pū Harakeke: Embedding bicultural principles into a design process. MAI Journal, 13(1), 89-102. doi: 10.20507/MAIJournal.2024.13.1.8 Journal - Research Article

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