Dr Peter W Tait
Biography
Peter Tait has been a General Practitioner since 1983, with 30 years of that in Aboriginal health in Central Australia. He was the 2007 Royal Australian College of General Practitioners General Practitioner of the Year and the 2017 PHAA Sidney Sax Medalist. He attained a Masters of Climate Change at the Australian National University (ANU) in 2010. He is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the ANU Medical School. Peter believes a person’s health is grounded in a healthy society, and a healthy society on a healthy ecosystem. He is co-convener of the Public Health Association Australia Ecology and Environment Special Interest Group, a past Chair of the Frank Fenner Foundation, secretary of the Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy, and active in the Climate and Health Alliance.
Publications
- Tait, P, Batten, M, Deakin, M et al 2019, 'The power of public health officers to curb greenhouse gas emissions', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 300-301.
- Tait, P, Allan, S & Katelaris, A 2018, 'Preventing heat-related disease in general practice', Australian Journal of General Practice, vol. 47, no. 12, pp. 835-840.
- Merone, L & Tait, P 2018, ''Climate refugees': is it time to legally acknowledge those displaced by climate disruption?', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 508-509.
- Tait, P 2018, 'Biosensitivity: the practical pathway to planetary health', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 589-589.
- Tait, P & Armstrong, F 2017, 'Effects of climate change – are we prepared?', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 1pp.
- Glass, K, Tait, P, Hanna, E et al. 2015, 'Estimating Risks of Heat Strain by Age and Sex: A Population-Level Simulation Model', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 5241-5255.
- Tait, P & Hanna, E 2015, 'A conceptual framework for planning systemic human adaptation to global warming', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 10700-10722.
- Hanna, E & Tait, P 2015, 'Limitations to Thermoregulation and Acclimatization Challenge Human Adaptation to Global Warming', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 8034-8074pp.
- Tait, P 2011, 'Medicine use, heat and thermoregulation in Australian patients', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 195, no. 6, pp. 327-327.
- Tait, P 2011, 'Active transport and heat (Letter to the editor)', Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 634-635.