Alistair Woodward

School of Population Health

University of Auckland

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Alistair is a medical graduate and public health medicine specialist, with particular interest in environmental health. He has worked on aspects of air quality, including second hand smoke and outdoor pollutants, radiation and health, and climate and climate change. Recently his research has focussed on the links between transport and healt.

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http://www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/soph/aboutus/head_of_school.aspx

KEY PUBLICATIONS


Impact on public health of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: urban land transport.
Lancet 2009 (Published online November 25, 2009) DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61714-1)

Cycling and walking to work in New Zealand, 1991-2006: regional and individual differences, and pointers to effective interventions
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2009 6:64 doi:10.1186/1479-5868-6-64

Climate science, denial and the Declaration of Delhi
NZ Med J 2009;122 No 1307
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Second-hand smoke: assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels
WHO Environmental Burden of Disease Series, No. 18. Geneva, World Health Organization, Geneva
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Brain tumour risk in relation to mobile telephone use: results of the INTERPHONE international case-control study
International Journal of Epidemiology 2010;39(3):675-94