Health and Climate

  • 75+ health and climate researchers across Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia

  • Ranked #23 globally in QS Sustainability Rankings 2024

  • Major transdisciplinary programs embedded in communities and across Asia-Pacific

2025-2030

Health and Climate Strategy

We're thrilled to announce the launch of the inaugural Health and Climate Strategy – a bold roadmap for collaborative, evidence-based health and climate research that directly strengthens community well-being and resilience in the face of a changing climate. The strategy defines our core mission, focus areas and capabilities, and is grounded in the values that shape our initiative:

  • Rigorous evidence-based research
  • Equity
  • Critical thinking and innovation
  • Collaboration

Click the play button to watch our Director Professor Karin Leder launch this exciting new chapter, or click below to read the strategy.

View the Health and Climate Strategy

Our capabilities

Cross-campus Indo Pacific reach

Building local and global partnerships

Data driven approaches for policies and programs

Expertise in transdisciplinary research and collaboration

Driving innovation in evidence synthesis

Our flagship projects

SEACO collaboration

We’re working with Monash’s South East Asia Community Observatory to deliver scalable, cost-effective, safe and sustainable solutions to climate-driven health challenges.

RISE Program

We’re conducting assessment for this remarkable trial, testing affordable, sustainable solutions to improve sanitation and drinking water access in informal communities in Fiji and Indonesia.

Air quality research

We unlock existing datasets and use AI and machine learning to generate groundbreaking evidence on the health threats posed by air pollution.

Building an evidence base

In partnership with the Australian Living Evidence Collaboration, we’re substantiating evidence around the links between health and climate change.

Monitoring emerging infectious diseases

Our communicable disease experts are monitoring the spread of novel infections to inform the delivery of vaccinations to priority areas.

Assessing future heatwave impacts on Victorian health

Exploring future health impacts of heatwaves under different greenhouse gas emission scenarios, and supporting identification of effective interventions.

Health and Climate news

Read the latest news on our health and climate research and collaboration outcomes.

A/Prof Rhys Grinter and Dr Ashleigh Kropp, authors on the study

Bacteria build microscopic ‘power cables’ to boost energy production, study finds

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown way that bacteria overcome one of life’s fundamental engineering challenges: how to generate more energy without redesigning the cell itself.
18 August, 2026 Biomedicine Discovery Institute

New research suggests giant kelp could inspire innovative climate solutions

New research reveals the microscopic machinery that helps giant kelp turn sunlight into energy, providing inspiration for innovative new climate solutions.
10 June, 2026 Biomedicine Discovery Institute

Australia-first study predicts annual heatwave deaths could reach 6000 by 2100

The first study of the health impacts of increasing heatwaves predicts that almost 6000 Australians will die from heatwaves in the year 2100 under climate change, compared to around 250 deaths per year during 2016–19.
4 May, 2026 Public Health and Preventive Medicine