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Biography
Tony Capon directs the Monash Sustainable Development Institute and holds a chair in planetary health in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University.
A public health physician and authority in environmental health and health promotion, his research focuses on urbanisation, sustainable development and human health. Tony is a former director of the International Institute for Global Health at United Nations University (UNU-IIGH), and has previously held professorial appointments at the University of Sydney and Australian National University.
He is a member of the Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on Planetary Health that published its report Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch in 2015, and the International Advisory Board for The Lancet Planetary Health.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Sustainable Development
- Planetary Health
- Environmental Health
- Health Promotion
- Urbanisation
- Human Health
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Projects
- 3 Active
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Planetary Health Histories: Developing Concepts
Anderson, W. H., Troy, J., Capon, T. & Sorlin, S.
30/03/22 → 29/03/25
Project: Research
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Climate Change and Human Health in Asia: Current Impacts, Future Risks, and Health Benefits of Mitigation Policies
Guo, Y., Capon, T., Bi, P., Jalaludin, B., Zhang, Y., Green, D., Hu, W., Arblaster, J., Li, S., Phung, D., Huxley, R., Li, T., Kan, H., Kim, H. H., Hales, S., Peng, W., Binti Mahjom, M. & Phuleria, H.
1/01/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Climate Change and Burden of Disease: Current Risk and Future Burden
Bi, P., Capon, T., Dear, K., Morgan, G. G., Zhang, Y. & Driscoll, T.
26/06/20 → 25/06/23
Project: Research
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Enabling transdisciplinary research collaboration for planetary health: insights from practice at the environment-health-development nexus
Wardani, J., Bos, J. J. A., Ramirez-Lovering, D. & Capon, A. G., Apr 2022, In: Sustainable Development. 30, 2, p. 375-392 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
Electric fan use for cooling during hot weather: a biophysical modelling study
Morris, N. B., Chaseling, G. K., English, T., Gruss, F., Maideen, M. F. B., Capon, A. & Jay, O., Jun 2021, In: The Lancet Planetary Health. 5, 6, p. e368-e377 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile11 Citations (Scopus) -
Hot weather and heat extremes: health risks
Ebi, K. L., Capon, A., Berry, P., Broderick, C., de Dear, R., Havenith, G., Honda, Y., Kovats, R. S., Ma, W., Malik, A., Morris, N. B., Nybo, L., Seneviratne, S. I., Vanos, J. & Jay, O., Aug 2021, In: The Lancet. 398, 10301, p. 698-708 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Other › peer-review
19 Citations (Scopus) -
Reducing the health effects of hot weather and heat extremes: from personal cooling strategies to green cities
Jay, O., Capon, A., Berry, P., Broderick, C., de Dear, R., Havenith, G., Honda, Y., Kovats, R. S., Ma, W., Malik, A., Morris, N. B., Nybo, L., Seneviratne, S. I., Vanos, J. & Ebi, K. L., Aug 2021, In: The Lancet. 398, 10301, p. 709-724 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
14 Citations (Scopus) -
The 2021 report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Australia increasingly out on a limb
Beggs, P. J., Zhang, Y., McGushin, A., Trueck, S., Linnenluecke, M. K., Bambrick, H., Berry, H. L., Jay, O., Rychetnik, L., Hanigan, I. C., Morgan, G. G., Guo, Y., Malik, A., Stevenson, M., Green, D., Johnston, F. H., McMichael, C., Hamilton, I. & Capon, A. G., Nov 2021, In: The Medical Journal of Australia. 215, 9, p. 390-392.e22 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access7 Citations (Scopus)
Press / Media
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The urgent need to transform healthcare education to address climate change
Gabrielle Brand, Gitanjali Bedi & Tony Capon
28/01/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature