Prof Cordia Chu
About
Prof Cordia Chu, Director of Griffith University Centre for Environment and Population Health which hosts a hub for global health security and 15 PHDs, has a background in environmental health, medical anthropology and sociology. Her key research areas are ecological public health; health promotion; reproductive health; integrated health planning; workplace health and safety management; participatory community needs assessment and policy development; climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. Committed to translational research, she guides her team to ensure that research is useful, usable and used through policy translation and capacity-building, particularly in linking environmental changes, health strategies and sustainable development. One of such example is a DFID commissioned project to co-develop a series of risk communication packages targeted to protect vulnerable populations from heat waves health impacts. She has been active as an international consultant on the development of sustainable healthy cities, hospitals and workplaces in many countries in the Asia-Pacific. She has graduated 60 PhDs and in 2018 she won a national commendation for excellence in research supervision by the Australian Council for Graduate Research. She has won 10 rounds of Australian Leadership Fellowship Awards to nurture over 200 fellows from 11 countries between 2007 to 2015. Her recent focusses have been on building a One Health research consortium for global health security, health emergency management and empowerment of vulnerable populations. Awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2013 for her contribution to public health and reproductive health, she has published over 250 articles and book chapters, 2 policy/guidelines, 4 DFID commissioned bi-lingual Heatwaves Risk Communication booklets, 5 documentary films, 21 international consultancy reports, 1 WHO regional guideline, and has presented 92 keynote addresses in conferences.