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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.
Research area keywords
- Sustainable Development
- Planetary Health
- Environmental Health
- Health Promotion
- Urbanisation
- Human Health
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Projects
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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., Zhang, Y. & Driscoll, T.
26/06/20 → 25/06/23
Project: Research
Research output
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Electric fans: a potential stay-at-home cooling strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic this summer?
Hospers, L., Smallcombe, J. W., Morris, N. B., Capon, A. & Jay, O., 10 Dec 2020, In: Science of the Total Environment. 747, 9 p., 141180.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
4 Citations (Scopus) -
Nested ecology and emergence in pandemics
Jenkins, A., Jupiter, S. D., Capon, A., Horwitz, P. & Negin, J., Aug 2020, In: The Lancet Planetary Health. 4, 8, p. e302-e303 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment / Debate › Other › peer-review
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Recovery from the pandemic: evidence-based public policy to safeguard health
Lo, S. N., Skarbek, A. & Capon, A., Sep 2020, In: Medical Journal of Australia. 213, 6, p. 284-284.e1 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Other › peer-review
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The 2020 special report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: lessons learnt from Australia’s “Black Summer”
Zhang, Y., Beggs, P. J., McGushin, A., Bambrick, H., Trueck, S., Hanigan, I. C., Morgan, G. G., Berry, H. L., Linnenluecke, M. K., Johnston, F. H., Capon, A. G. & Watts, N., Dec 2020, In: Medical Journal of Australia. 213, 11, p. 490-492.e10 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
6 Citations (Scopus) -
The environmental footprint of health care: a global assessment
Lenzen, M., Malik, A., Li, M., Fry, J., Weisz, H., Pichler, P. P., Chaves, L. S. M., Capon, A. & Pencheon, D., Jul 2020, In: The Lancet Planetary Health. 4, 7, p. e271-e279 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile14 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