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Luke Knibbs is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Data Science at the Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, and Director of the Public Health Research Analytics and Methods for Evidence (PHRAME) at Sydney Local Health District. He previously held roles at The University of Queensland, including Associate Professor of Environmental Health, and has extensive postdoctoral training in air quality and health. His research focuses on environmental exposures, particularly air pollution, and their impacts on non-communicable diseases, with a strong emphasis on low- and middle-income countries.
Knibbs holds a BSc from Macquarie University, an MPH from the University of Sydney, and a PhD from Macquarie University. He has published over 230 peer-reviewed articles, with an h-index of 54 and >40,000 citations. His work spans top journals like Science, The Lancet, and Environment International.
His research interests include quantifying environmental exposure effects on population health, incorporating social determinants of health equity, and leveraging large datasets for hypothesis-driven epidemiological studies. He collaborates internationally, notably with institutions in China and India, on studies linking air pollution to respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurodevelopmental outcomes.
Knibbs has secured over AUD$27 million in competitive research funding since 2020 and supervised 16 PhD/MPhil students. He is a recipient of prestigious awards, including the Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases Research (2018) and the Young Tall Poppy Science Award (2016).
He leads PHRAME to translate research into actionable evidence for healthcare decision-making and capacity-building initiatives. His teaching and administration roles include directing public health programs and advancing research-informed curricula in epidemiology and environmental health.
