Planetary health
The research in this theme investigates the interconnection between environmental health and human health worldwide. The projects primarily focus on the SDGs for Good Health and Wellbeing (SDG 3), Clean Water and Sanitation (SDG 6), Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG 7), Climate Action (SDG 13), as well as Life Below Water (SDG 14) and Life on Land (SDG 15), and especially their interactions.
Projects
- Building global surveillance with local data: a sustainable response to antimicrobial resistance
- The challenge of ageing with HIV in Africa
- Co-created citizen science to advance sustainable menstrual health among adolescents
- Community-based conservation of coral reefs and fisheries in West Papua
- Critical National Infrastructure resilience against pandemics and climate change
- DROught, Poverty and HIV drug RESISTance (DROP-RESIST): threat to resilience in vulnerable rural settings
- Luna Connection: human rights and environmental implications of menstrual hygiene products
- Mapping supply chain and procurement barriers for medical research in Africa
- Scoping an intervention in youth mental health support in the Global South
- Surfaces: an interdisciplinary approach to enhancing health in vulnerable rainforest setting
Follow-on project 1: Improving food security and protecting rainforest biodiversity and carbon stocks in indigenous communities recovering from COVID-19 in Papua New Guinea
Follow-on project 2: Supporting integration of conservation and public health in the upland forests of Bougainville and the lowlands forests of Sepu, Papua New Guinea