AQ | Q&A WITH DR KATHRYN BOWEN

HONORARY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT THE FENNER SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY – THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

“…Impacts are disproportionately felt in different parts of the community, in different countries, and different regions.”

You tend to work at the interfaces between public health, epidemiology and climate change; how have you seen these topics intersect this year?

The glaringly obvious intersection is around health equity. What we continue to see around climate change is that the impacts are disproportionately felt in different parts of the community, in different countries, and different regions. It very quicky exposes the underlying inequalities that people live with.

So the parallels with COVID-19 are really stark, because what we're seeing is that there’s a clear divide in terms of those