Mr Daniel Gilfillan
Areas of expertise
- Human Impacts Of Climate Change And Human Adaptation 410103
- Public Health Not Elsewhere Classified 420699
- Development Cooperation 440401
- Environment Policy 440704
- Health Policy 440706
- Environmental Management 410404
- Environmental Assessment And Monitoring 410402
Research interests
- Governance of Climate Change Adaptation and Human Health
- Project Management for Climate Change Adaptation
- Adaptation to Climate Change in the Pacific
- Adaptation to Climate Change in Southeast Asia
- Renewables-based electricity generation and pumped storage hydropower for sustainable low carbon electricity systems
Biography
Dr Daniel Gilfillan – Climate change, human health and renewable energy
Dr Daniel Gilfillan works in the areas of health and environment, as well as in renewable energy. Dr Gilfillan has extensive work experience in the Asian region, including Southeast and South Asia as well as more limited experience in the Pacific.
Renewable Energy
Since 2019 Dr Gilfillan has worked on renewables-based electricity generation and storage. His experience includes modelling of floating solar potential in the Greater Mekong Subregion, Pacific Rim studies of pumped storage hydropower status, policy frameworks and potential. He manages projects in Southeast and South Asia that are encouraging decision-makers to consider the need for solar and wind generators and electrical energy storage, in order to meet their international carbon emissions commitments. Dr Gilfillan has been the lead author of both technical papers and journal articles on pumped storage hydropower.
Health and Environment
Dr Gilfillan consults to the World Health Organisation (WHO), supporting climate change health and environment work across the Asia-Pacific region. Specific focus areas of his work with WHO include climate resilient and environmentally sustainable healthcare facilities (CRESHCF), healthcare waste management, and building health system resilience to climate change.
Dr Gilfillan has also worked on and evaluated a number of Asian Development Bank environmental health projects such as a Greater Mekong Subregion-wide climate change adaptation and health project and a health impact assessment mainstreaming project. His impact assessment work has also included working on an Asian Development Bank funded strategic environmental assessment (SEA) project in Thailand, and preparing a socio-economic assessment and mitigation plan for a Mekong navigation upgrade project in Thailand and Lao PDR. Dr Gilfillan’s work in environmental health has led to a variety of peer reviewed publications, which can be seen by navigating to his google citations page.
Education
Dr Gilfillan holds a PhD on climate change and health governance with a focus on Southeast Asia, from the Australian National University. He also holds a Masters degree in international development from the University of Wollongong.
Researcher's projects
1. Pumped storage hydropower in the Himalayas to support the transition to zero/low carbon electricity grids
2. Renewables-based electricity generation and storage to support the transition to sustainable low carbon electricity grids in the Greater Mekong Subregion
3. Building health system resilience to climate change in Asian least developed countries
Publications
- Gilfillan, D & Pittock, J 2022, 'Pumped Storage Hydropower for Sustainable and Low-Carbon Electricity Grids in Pacific Rim Economies', Energies, vol. 15, no. 9.
- Gilfillan, D 2018, 'Regional organisations supporting health sector responses to climate change in Southeast Asia', Globalization and Health, vol. 14, no. 80, pp. 1-13pp.
- Gilfillan, D 2018, 'Governance Limits to Adaptation in Cambodia's Health Sector', in Walter Leal Filho, Johanna Nalau (ed.), Limits to Climate Change Adaptation, Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland, pp. 25-39.
- Gilfillan, D 2018, 'The health sector's role in governance of climate change adaptation in Myanmar', Climate and Development, vol. 11, no. 7, pp. 574-584.
- Robinson, S & Gilfillan, D 2017, 'Regional organisations and climate change adaptation in small island developing states', Regional Environmental Change, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 989-1004pp.
- Gilfillan, D, Nguyen, T & Pham, H 2017, 'Coordination and health sector adaptation to climate change in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta', Ecology and Society, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 14pp..
- Gilfillan, D 2015, 'SHORT-TERM VOLUNTEERING AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: AN EVALUATION FRAMEWORK FOR VOLUNTEER TOURISM', Tourism Analysis, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 607-618.
