Professor Philip Weinstein

Caption: Prof Phil Weinstein by a gnamma (water filled erosion hole) on a
granite inselberg in the Boorabbin National Park, Western Australia. These
geological formations were critical to the survival of Western Desert
Aboriginies for tens of thousands of years, and later to early European
explorers and prospectors.

Professor Philip Weinstein is a graduate in both medicine (MB BS) and
ecology (PhD), with specialist postgraduate qualifications in epidemiology
(MAppEpi) and environmental health (FAFPHM). With this dual training he
has become involved in research on the relationship between human health
and ecosystem health, and has published extensively on the environmental
determinants of water-borne disease. His interest in Medical Geology stems
from his work on the relationship between human health and volcanic
eruptions in New Zealand. He is now extending this interest to include
geological hazards as well as trace elements in analyses of the
environmental disease burden.

Recent publications of interest:

Weinstein P. and Patel A. The Mount Ruapehu eruption 1996: a review of
potential health effects. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public
Health 21: 773-8 (1997)

Hickling J., Clements M., Weinstein P. and Woodward A. Acute health
effects of the Mt. Ruapehu (New Zealand) volcanic eruption of June 1996.
International Journal of Environmental Health Research 9: 97-107 (1999)

Weinstein, P. and Cook, A. Human health impacts of volcanic eruptions.
Histopathology 41 (Supp.2) 329-333 (2002).

Pearce EIF, Weinstein P, Cronin SJ, Suckling G and Cutress TW. A risk
assessment of dental fluorosis from volcanic activity in New Zealand. J
Pub Health Dent (in review).

Philip Weinstein
Professor of Public and Environmental Health,
Deputy Head of School of Population Health,
University of Queensland,
Herston Rd, Herston
Queensland 4006

Phone +61 7 33655065
Fax +61 7 3365 5442
p.weinstein@uq.edu.au

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