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Contact Details

Email
simon.hales@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor
Department
Department of Public Health (Wellington)
Qualifications
MB BChir MPH (Otago) PhD
Research summary
Environmental epidemiology

Research

Simon is an environmental epidemiologist with an interest in the atmospheric environment and global issues. Simon's current projects include:
  • assessing health aspects of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change (NZ and Fiji)
  • estimating the global burden of disease attributable to climate change
  • empirical modelling of communicable disease in relation to climate
  • health co benefits of climate change mitigation
  • health impact assessment of air pollution exposure

Publications

Wickham, L., Kuschel, G., & Hales, S. (2026). No real limits for air pollution in proposed RMA reform. The Briefing, (6 August). Retrieved from https://www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/no-real-limits-air-pollution-proposed-rma-reform Journal - Research Other

Chambers, T., Dean, F., Klavs, J., Stanger, N., Kim, A., Hales, S., Douwes, J., Baker, M. G., & Deng, J. (2026). A national-scale historical assessment of nitrate in public drinking water supplies in New Zealand: Data integration and machine learning imputation approaches. Water Environment Research, 98(2), e70296. doi: 10.1002/wer.70296 Journal - Research Article

Huang, W., Yang, Z., Otto, C., Mengel, M., Hales, S., Zhang, Y., … MCC Collaborators. (2026). Assessing global factors associated with tropical cyclone-related mortality: A population-based longitudinal study. Environment International, 214, 110409. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2026.110409 Journal - Research Article

Mahendran, R., Xu, R., Zhang, L., Ye, T., Zhang, Y., Xu, Z., … Hales, S., … Guo, Y. (2026). The hidden infectious disease-related sepsis risk of wildfire-specific PM2.5. Environmental Research, 306, 125212. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2026.125212 Journal - Research Article

Chambers, T., Kim, A., Dean, F., Bain, I., Douwes, J., Berry, M., Baker, M., & Hales, S. (2026). Nitrate pollution of drinking water linked to preterm birth: New NZ study. The Briefing, (14 July). Retrieved from https://www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/nitrate-pollution-drinking-water-linked-preterm-birth-new-nz-study Journal - Research Other

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