Alistair Woodward has been Head of the School of Population Health since 2004. His first degree was in medicine and he undertook his postgraduate training in public health in the UK. He has a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Adelaide. Prior to taking up his post at The University of Auckland in 2004 he was Professor of Public Health at the University of Otago Wellington. Research interests include tobacco, radio-frequency radiation and health, transport and injury, and climate change. He has worked for the World Health Organization throughout the Pacific, and was on the writing team of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Since 2009 he has been an editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health.
Some recent publications
Woodward, A.J. (2011). Global environmental change
and disease dynamics. In: Dogra, N., & Srivasta, S. (Eds.), Climate change and disease dynamics in India,
p1-10, New Delhi, TERI Press.
Woodward, F., & Woodward, A. (2011). Public
health and the promise of free trade. Aust
N Z J Public Health, 35 (6),
p504-505, 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2011.00782.x.
Tin, S.T., Woodward, A., Thornley, S., &
Ameratunga, S. (2011). Regional variations in pedal cyclist injuries in New
Zealand: safety in numbers or risk in scarcity?. Aust N Z J Public Health, 35
(4), p357-363, 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2011.00731.x.
Gohlke, J.M., Thomas, R., Woodward, A.,
Campbell-Lendrum, D., Pruss-Ustun, A., Hales, S., & Portier, C.J. (2011).
Estimating the Global Public Health Implications of Electricity and Coal
Consumption. ENVIRON HEALTH PERSP, 119 (6), p821-826, 10.1289/ehp.1002241.
The INTERPHONE Study Group, (2011). Acoustic neuroma risk in relation to
mobile telephone use: results of the INTERPHONE international case-control
study. Cancer Epidemiology: the
international journal of cancer epidemiology, detection and prevention, 35 (5), p453-464,
10.1016/j.canep.2011.05.012.
McCool, J., Woodward, A., & Percival, T. (2011).
Health of Pacific Islanders: Achievements and Challenges. ASIA-PAC J PUBLIC HE, 23
(1), p7-9, 10.1177/1010539510392206.
Cardis, E, Armstrong, B.K, Bowman, J.D, Giles, G.G,
Hours, M, Krewski, D, ... Vrijheid, M. (2011). Risk of brain tumours in
relation to estimated RF dose from mobile phones: results from five Interphone
countries. OCCUP ENVIRON MED, 68 (9), p631-640, 10.1136/oemed-2011-100155.
Woodward, A.J. (2011). Sweet spots and fell swoops:
Common solutions for clean air, climate control and public health. Air Quality and Climate Change, 45 (3), p33-34.
Gillespie-Bennett, J, Pierse, N, Wickens, K, Crane,
J, Howden-Chapman, P, Shields, H, ... Woodward, A. (2011). The respiratory
health effects of nitrogen dioxide in children with asthma. European Respiratory Journal, 38 (2), p303-309.
Lindsay, G., Macmillan, A., & Woodward, A.
(2011). Moving urban trips from cars to bicycles: impact on health and
emissions. Aust N Z J Public Health, 35 (1), p54-60,
10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00621.x.
Oberg, M., Jaakkola, M.S., Woodward, A., Peruga, A.,
& Pruss-Ustun, A. (2011). Worldwide burden of disease from exposure to
second-hand smoke: a retrospective analysis of data from 192 countries. LANCET, 377 (9760), p139-146, 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61388-8.
Woodward, A., Lindsay, G., & Singh, S. (2011).
Adapting to climate change to sustain health. Review in WIRES CLIM CHANGE, 2 (2),
p271-282, 10.1002/wcc.103.
Inaugural lecture by Alistair Woodward (PDF, 7.1 MB)
