Peng Bi

Professor Peng Bi is a faculty member in the School of Public Health at the University of Adelaide, within the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. He holds the academic rank of Professor and focuses on environmental health, climate change impacts, infectious diseases, and emergency public health responses. His research emphasizes climate-sensitive diseases such as foodborne, mosquito-borne, and rodent-borne illnesses, with recent work targeting climate adaptation strategies for vulnerable populations like older adults, outdoor workers, and culturally and linguistically diverse communities. He is a Fellow of The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, reflecting his contributions to social science research. His work integrates ecological approaches to understand spatio-temporal disease patterns and One Health initiatives.

Research interests include environmental epidemiology, ecosystem health, and occupational health. Key contributions involve quantifying the health burden of climate change, particularly through studies on temperature-related cardiovascular risks, heatwave impacts on mental health, and economic costs of occupational injuries. He has published extensively on heat-related health outcomes and adaptation strategies in Australia and globally. Awards include recognition for his interdisciplinary work in social sciences.

Teaching and supervision focus on public health methodologies, with eligibility to mentor Masters and PhD students. His grants and funding support projects addressing climate change adaptation, health policy, and disease surveillance. Current initiatives include evaluating heat health warning systems and assessing the efficacy of public health interventions against extreme weather events.

• Key Awards: Fellow of The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
• Recent Projects: Climate change adaptation in occupational health, heat-related mortality modeling, One Health approaches to zoonotic diseases
• Labs/Teams: Collaborates with environmental epidemiology groups, public health policy units, and interdisciplinary climate research teams at the University of Adelaide.