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New Zealand
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
77
Citations
30900
World Ranking
449
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in New Zealand Leader Award

Overview

Alistair Woodward is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their research spans primarily the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with a strong emphasis on health-related subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and General Health Professions.

Their work focuses on core topics including Climate Change and Health Impacts, Urban Transport and Accessibility, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Global Health Care Issues, Traffic and Road Safety, and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology.

Among recent publications, they have contributed to several articles, including:

  • Estimates of global mortality burden associated with short-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2·5), 2024, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Beyond the bicycle: Seeing the context of the gender gap in cycling, 2020, Journal of Transport & Health
  • Guidelines for Modeling and Reporting Health Effects of Climate Change Mitigation Actions, 2020, Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Nitrate contamination in drinking water and colorectal cancer: Exposure assessment and estimated health burden in New Zealand, 2021, Environmental Research
  • Long term exposure to air pollution, mortality and morbidity in New Zealand: Cohort study, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent co-authors in their research include Kirsty Wild, Caroline Shaw, Simon Hales, Kristie L. Ebi, and Rhys Jones. This network suggests collaborative work across various aspects of environmental health and epidemiology.

Their publications often appear in journals such as:

  • International Journal of Epidemiology
  • The Lancet Planetary Health
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Journal of Transport & Health
  • The Medical Journal of Australia

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Worldwide burden of disease from exposure to second-hand smoke: a retrospective analysis of data from 192 countries.

    Mattias Öberg;Maritta S Jaakkola;Alistair Woodward;Armando Peruga

  • Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport

    James Woodcock;Phil Edwards;Cathryn Tonne;Ben G Armstrong

  • Potential effect of population and climate changes on global distribution of dengue fever: an empirical model.

    Simon Hales;Neil de Wet;John Maindonald;Alistair Woodward

  • Human health: impacts, adaptation, and co-benefits

    K Smith;A Woodward;Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum;D Chadee

  • Climate Change and Human Health. Risks and Responses

    A. J. McMichael;D. H. Campbell-Lendrum;C. F. Corvalán;K. L. Ebi

  • Systematic literature review of built environment effects on physical activity and active transport - an update and new findings on health equity

    Melody Smith;Jamie Hosking;Alistair Woodward;Karen Witten

  • Effect of insulating existing houses on health inequality: cluster randomised study in the community

    Philippa Howden-Chapman;Anna Matheson;Julian Crane;Helen Viggers

  • Lung Cancer in Radon-Exposed Miners and Estimation of Risk From Indoor Exposure

    Jay H. Lubin;John D. Boice;Christer Edling;Richard W. Hornung

  • Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Health Synthesis

    Carlos Corvalan;Simon Hales;Anthony McMichael;Colin Butler

  • Early effects of climate change: do they include changes in vector-borne disease?

    R S Kovats;D H Campbell-Lendrum;A J McMichael;A Woodward

  • Ecological effects in multi-level studies

    Tony A Blakely;Alistair J Woodward

  • Effects of improved home heating on asthma in community dwelling children: randomised controlled trial.

    Philippa Howden-Chapman;Nevil Pierse;Sarah Nicholls;Julie Gillespie-Bennett

  • The INTERPHONE study: Design, epidemiological methods, and description of the study population

    Elisabeth Cardis;Lesley Richardson;Isabelle Deltour;Bruce Armstrong

  • Climate change and health: on the latest IPCC report

    Alistair Woodward;Kirk R Smith;Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum;Dave D Chadee

  • Introduction and methods: assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels.

    Prüss-Üstün A;Mathers C;Corvalán C;Woodward A

  • Indoor smoke from solid fuels Assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels

    Manish A. Desai;Sumi Mehta;Kirk R. Smith;Annette Prüss-Üstün

  • Why reduce health inequalities

    Alistair J. Woodward;Ichiro Kawachi

  • El Niño and the dynamics of vectorborne disease transmission.

    Simon Hales;Phil Weinstein;Yvan Souares;Alistair Woodward

  • Haze, public health and mitigation measures in China: A review of the current evidence for further policy response

    Jinghong Gao;Alistair Woodward;Sotiris Vardoulakis;Sari Kovats

  • The societal costs and benefits of commuter bicycling: simulating the effects of specific policies using system dynamics modeling.

    Alexandra Macmillan;Jennie Connor;Karen Witten;Robin A. Kearns

  • Health and Climate Change 2 Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport

    J Woodcock;P Edwards;C Tonne;BG Armstrong

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Hales
Simon Hales University of Otago
Tony Blakely
Tony Blakely University of Melbourne
Shanthi Ameratunga
Shanthi Ameratunga University of Auckland
Philippa Howden-Chapman
Philippa Howden-Chapman University of Otago
Karen Witten
Karen Witten Massey University
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum World Health Organization
Xiaobo Liu
Xiaobo Liu University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Nick Wilson
Nick Wilson University of Otago
Annette Prüss-Ustün
Annette Prüss-Ustün World Health Organization
Andy Haines
Andy Haines London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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