Stephen Corbett
Professor
Public Health
University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
Dr. STEPHEN CORBETT is a public health physician, currently Director of the Centre for Population Health in the Western Sydney Local Health District, and part-time general practitioner at the Aborignal Medical Service Western Sydney. His background is in general practice, and environmental and occupational health. He is a member of the board of Food Standards Australia and New Zealand. In 2011 he was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany
Research Interest
Area of public policy and the interface between human health and the environment. This interest has included research air and water quality and health, environmental lead contamination and remediation, bioaerosols, food borne illness and environmental health in Aboriginal communities. More recenly this interest has extended to include the part played by the tectonic environmental changes linked to the industrial revolution in the recent human evolution of disease alleles linked to chronic or degenerative disease.
Publications
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Morgan, G., Sheppeard, V., Khalaj, B., Ayyar, A., Lincoln, D., Jalaludin, B., Beard, J., Corbett, S., Lumley, T. (2010). Effects of Bushfire Smoke on Daily Mortality and Hospital Admissions in Sydney, Australia. Epidemiology, 21(1), 47-55.
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Schaffer, A., Muscatello, D., Broome, R., Corbett, S., Smith, W. (2012). Emergency department visits, ambulance calls, and mortality associated with an exceptional heat wave in Sydney, Australia, 2011: a time-series analysis. Environmental Health, 11(1), 1-8.
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Corbett, S., Morin-Papunen, L. (2013). The Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and recent human evolution. Molecular And Cellular Endocrinology, 373(1-2), 39-50.
