Global Health

BIOGRAPHY

Colin Butler is an Associate Professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, at the Australian National University. He has qualifications in medicine and public health, and his doctoral thesis examined the relationship between global inequality and the (un)sustainability of global civilisation. He is co-founder of the NGO BODHI, which supports development projects in six countries (to date) in Asia. He is an adviser to the WHO on the burden of disease of climate change and to the TDR on links between agriculture, environmental change and infectious diseases of poverty.

Colin has published extensively in these fields as well as on the political economy of health and the impact of population growth on development. However, he feels he could have published more if the peer review system and the publishing industry in general were less reflective of wider structural inequalities.