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Fay H. Johnston is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia and conducts research primarily in the field of environmental science, with a particular focus on health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. Their work spans several subfields including global and planetary change, pollution, public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as safety, risk, reliability, and quality.

The main topics addressed in their research include air quality and health impacts, climate change and health impacts, energy and environment impacts, fire effects on ecosystems, injury epidemiology and prevention, disaster management and resilience, and fire dynamics and safety research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Johnston include:

  • Amanda J. Wheeler
  • Grant J. Williamson
  • Geoffrey Morgan
  • Luke D. Knibbs
  • David M. J. S. Bowman

Johnston's recent papers cover topics related to fire, smoke, health, and environmental impacts. Some notable publications are:

  • "Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene," 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Wildfires, Global Climate Change, and Human Health," 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Unprecedented smoke-related health burden associated with the 2019-20 bushfires in eastern Australia," 2020, The Medical Journal of Australia
  • "Unprecedented health costs of smoke-related PM2.5 from the 2019-20 Australian megafires," 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • "Global population exposure to landscape fire air pollution from 2000 to 2019," 2023, Nature

Johnston has published frequently in venues such as ISEE Conference Abstracts, The Medical Journal of Australia, Environmental Research, International Journal of Epidemiology, and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Best Publications

  • Fire in the Earth System

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch;Paulo Artaxo;William J. Bond

  • Critical Review of Health Impacts of Wildfire Smoke Exposure

    Colleen E. Reid;Michael Brauer;Fay H. Johnston;Michael Jerrett

  • The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Jennifer Balch;Paulo Artaxo;William J. Bond

  • Estimated Global Mortality Attributable to Smoke from Landscape Fires

    Fay H. Johnston;Sarah B. Henderson;Yang Chen;James T. Randerson

  • Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Crystal A. Kolden;John T. Abatzoglou;Fay H. Johnston

  • Wildfires, Global Climate Change, and Human Health.

    Rongbin Xu;Pei Yu;Michael J. Abramson;Fay H. Johnston

  • Heatwave and health impact research: A global review.

    Sharon Campbell;Tomas A. Remenyi;Christopher J. White;Fay H. Johnston

  • Extreme air pollution events from bushfires and dust storms and their association with mortality in Sydney, Australia 1994-2007

    Fay Johnston;Ivan Hanigan;Sarah Henderson;Geoffrey Morgan

  • Healthy Country: Healthy People? Exploring the health benefits of Indigenous natural resource management

    Christopher Paul Burgess;Fay Helena Johnston;David M. J. S. Bowman;Peter J. Whitehead

  • Unprecedented smoke-related health burden associated with the 2019-20 bushfires in eastern Australia.

    Nicolas Borchers Arriagada;Andrew J Palmer;David Mjs Bowman;Geoffrey G Morgan

  • The health impacts and economic value of wildland fire episodes in the U.S.: 2008-2012.

    Neal Fann;Breanna Alman;Richard A. Broome;Geoffrey G. Morgan

  • Unprecedented health costs of smoke-related PM 2.5 from the 2019–20 Australian megafires

    Fay H. Johnston;Nicolas Borchers-Arriagada;Nicolas Borchers-Arriagada;Geoffrey G. Morgan;Bin Jalaludin

  • Human-environmental drivers and impacts of the globally extreme 2017 Chilean fires.

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Andrés Moreira-Muñoz;Crystal A. Kolden;Roberto O. Chávez

  • Exposure to bushfire smoke and asthma: an ecological study

    Fay H Johnston;Anne M Kavanagh;David M J S Bowman;Randall K Scott

  • Ambient biomass smoke and cardio-respiratory hospital admissions in Darwin, Australia

    Fay H Johnston;Ross S Bailie;Louis S Pilotto;Ivan C Hanigan

  • Coal mine fires and human health: What do we know?

    S.M. Melody;F.H. Johnston

  • Wildfire Smoke, Fire Management, and Human Health

    David M.J.S. Bowman;Fay H. Johnston

  • Vegetation fire smoke, indigenous status and cardio-respiratory hospital admissions in Darwin, Australia, 1996-2005: a time-series study

    Ivan C. Hanigan;Fay Helena Johnston;Fay Helena Johnston;Geoffrey G. Morgan

  • Healthy Country, Healthy People: Policy Implications of Links between Indigenous Human Health and Environmental Condition in Tropical Australia

    Stephen T. Garnett;Bev Sithole;Peter J. Whitehead;C. Paul Burgess

  • Association Between Fire Smoke Fine Particulate Matter and Asthma-Related Outcomes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Nicolas Borchers Arriagada;Nicolas Borchers Arriagada;Joshua A. Horsley;Andrew J. Palmer;Andrew J. Palmer;Geoffrey G. Morgan

  • Air pollution from bushfires and their association with hospital admissions in Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong, Australia 1994-2007.

    Kara L. Martin;Ivan C. Hanigan;Geoffrey G. Morgan;Sarah B. Henderson

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. J. S. Bowman
David M. J. S. Bowman University of Tasmania
Grant J. Williamson
Grant J. Williamson University of Tasmania
Sarah B. Henderson
Sarah B. Henderson University of British Columbia
Michael J. Abramson
Michael J. Abramson Monash University
Luke D. Knibbs
Luke D. Knibbs University of Sydney
Yuming Guo
Yuming Guo Monash University
Ed Newbigin
Ed Newbigin University of Melbourne
Simon G. Haberle
Simon G. Haberle Australian National University
Guy B. Marks
Guy B. Marks University of New South Wales
Michael Brauer
Michael Brauer University of British Columbia

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