Public Health & Humanitarian Engineering
Our work is underpinned by a commitment to enhancing the health of humans and their environments through world-leading engineering and health research.
This theme focuses on the nexus of how engineering and health can work towards sustainable development. It is concerned with fostering transformative change in systems, communities and environments.
UNSW Engineering researchers have decades of experience in engineering and public health activities in the Indo-Pacific region, including coastal protection in the Cook Islands, air quality monitoring in Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu, improving the nutritional status of children in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, and improving tools for electricity access in PNG.
UNSW Medicine & Health is a major contributor to global development and health in the Indo-Pacific. It engages in world-class health and medical research, education and outreach. Its mission is to improve health in Australia and globally, with a particular focus on eliminating health disparities. Broadly speaking, iuts areas of focus for sustainable development are: health systems strengthening, non-communicable diseases, injury and environment, and infectious disease and COVID-19.
Notable Research Highlights and Facilities
Rapid Urbanisation & Population Health (RUPH) Network
Led by聽Associate Professor Xiaoqi Feng,聽the research network aims to build聽new capacities鈥痜or consequential and policy-relevant research聽by generating聽knowledge sharing and collaboration opportunities, as well as connecting early and mid-career聽researchers to senior academic鈥痬entors and established multi-institutional research entities.