Associate Professor Supriya Mathew
Principal Research Fellow
Qualifications:
PhD Environment and Geography, Macquarie University, 2013
MTech Ocean Technology, Cochin University of Science and Technology, 2007
MSc Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, 2002
Approved level of HDR supervision at Charles Darwin University:
Co-supervise
Location:
Alice Springs Office, Northern Territory
Biography:
Supriya Mathew is an environmental health researcher leading the climate change research program at Menzies.
Her PhD developed a framework to assist local governments in Australia and India prioritise adaptation options under economic and climatic uncertainties. Her doctoral research framework was converted into an MS Excel-based decision-making tool, which was used by local governments nationally and internationally.
Her research team focuses on improving climate resilience in remote Australia through citizen scientist-led research data collection, collation of lived experiences of residents of remote Australia and co-designing of adaptation and mitigation solutions with remote residents and stakeholders. She is currently the lead chief investigator in active grants totaling more than $6M.
She is co-leading the rural and remote health theme and the Northern Territory Community of Practice of the national Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL) network. She is also part of the leadership team of the Rural, remote and regional sharing approaches for research education (R3SHARE) network.
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Research Themes
- Climate change
- Social determinants of health
- Indigenous health
- Primary health care and health systems research
