Meet our Dean of Graduate Studies
UniSA's
Dean of Graduate Studies
Professor Phil Weinstein has a good
multidisciplinary understanding of what graduate research training is
about: he has supervised or co-supervised 20 PhD students in public
health, ecology, cultural studies and epidemiology – and has himself
completed a PhD and two research Masters degrees covering these fields.
He is a medical graduate of the University of Adelaide and Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Public Health Medicine, and was most recently Professor of Public and Environmental Health at the University of Queensland where he also led an environmental health research group. He was formerly the Head of School of Population Health at the University of Western Australia, and Associate Dean Research at the Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago.
Phil has over 150 publications on the environmental determinants of water-borne and mosquito-borne disease, and also led a major research programme on air quality and respiratory health through the Cooperative Research Centre for Asthma and Airways. He was a member of the Board of Review Editors for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, is Co-Chair of the International Medical Geology Association, and remains an enthusiastic teacher.
Phil plays a key leadership role in the University of South Australia's research education program and in shaping recruitment strategies to attract the brightest and best research students to work at UniSA.
Leading medical journal boosts PhD student's research – Professor Phil Weinstein certainly knows how to launch a research student on the right path - for the third time, he has co-authored a paper in the world's leading medical journal The Lancet in which the first author is one of his PhD students.