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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

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

Jones, R., Reid, P., & Macmillan, A. (2024). An Indigenous climate justice policy analysis tool. Climate Policy. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/14693062.2024.2362845 Journal - Research Article

Hosking, J., Woodward, A., Macmillan, A., Jones, R., Ameratunga, S., & Smith, M. (2024). Can transport interventions contribute to health equity? A systematic review of whether the effects of transport interventions on major transport-related influences on health differ by ethnicity and socio-economic position. In J. S. Mindell & S. J. Watkins (Eds.), Advances in transport policy and planning (Vol. 13): Health on the move 3: The reviews. (pp. 435-501). Cambridge, MA: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/bs.atpp.2023.11.001 Chapter in Book - Research

Prickett, M., Macmillan, A., Wilson, N., Shaw, C., Cleghorn, C., Baker, M., & Hales, S. (2023). The policy bonfire of environment protection: 10 examples that threaten public health. The Briefing, (15 December). Retrieved from https://www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/policy-bonfire-environment-protection-10-examples-threaten-public-health Journal - Research Other

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