Proust, Katrina

Biography

Dr Katrina Proust is a Visiting Research Fellow at UNU IIGH. Katrina has a background in environmental and applied history, and complex human-environment systems. Her work focuses on the historical factors and the feedback dynamics that shape relationships between humans and our environment. She is particularly interested in the interconnected systems that comprise urban communities. Since 2011 she has focused on the cross-sector feedback issues that affect population health in urban settings. In Australia she has been a member of the Urbanism, Climate Adaptation and Health Cluster, a CSIRO research program, where she contributed the systems framework to draw out cross-sector feedback links in the urban climate-health system. In the international community Katrina has contributed to the work of the International Council for Science (ICSU) in the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP). She has contributed to the ROAP Science Plan on Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment: a systems approach, and continues to advise ROAP as a member of its Steering Committee on research into urban health. She has a PhD (ANU) in environmental history and environmental science; a Master of Letters (Univ Sydney) in historical archaeology and cultural conservation; and undergraduate degrees in Arts-Law (Univ Sydney).

Research Interest

Capacity development Education for sustainable development Environmental history Health Effects from Climate Change Urban health Urbanization and its impacts on human society