Professor, Public Health, University of Sydney

Alexandra Barratt (MBBS, MPH, PhD) is a professor of Public Health at the University of Sydney. She is a lead investigator in Wiser Healthcare, an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence to reduce overdiagnosis and overtreatment and improve healthcare sustainability, and of HEAL, Healthy Environments and Lives national network, also funded by NHMRC.

Major reductions in the carbon footprint of clinical care will be needed to achieve emissions targets but the evidence base to make these changes safely and effectively is lacking. Her research aims to fill this evidence gap. Alex has a longstanding interest in promoting science to the community and has won two Australian Museum Eureka prizes for medical reporting.