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Professor Evelyne de Leeuw
Professor of Public Health, Director of the Centre for Health Equity Training, Research and Evaluation
Evelyne is, since 2015, Professor of Public Health and Director of the Centre for Health Equity Training, Research and Evaluation (CHETRE). CHETRE is part of the University of New South Wales, South Western Sydney Local Health District (the healthcare and health promotion provider to the most diverse and most health challenged population in the Greater Sydney basin), and Ingham Institute (a charitative health research institute connecting industry, community and the profession). With CHETRE’s mission ‘to co-create intelligence for better health’ Evelyne believes she has landed her best job ever, working with people, problems, and politics for health equity. CHETRE’s stakeholders recognise ‘the best job’, too – Evelyne was appointed Director of the Healthy Urban Environments (HUE) Collaboratory, a research, development and advocacy centre across three universities (UNSW, WSU, UTS), two health districts, local governments and developers. Evelyne has several parallel jobs. She is Editor-in-Chief of the peer reviewed journal Health Promotion International (IF 2), sits on the Executive Board of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education IUHPE, advises WHO, and is the chair of the Global Scientific Committee for IUHPE2022. Much of this is driven by Evelyne’s commitment to worldwide Healthy Cities – she has been involved with the European movement since its start (1986) and did evaluations and consultations with many local governments – including in Japan, El Salvador, Korea, Kazakhstan, and The Netherlands. Work with local health policy has driven her to argue for a ‘new’ scientific discipline – health political science, bridging public health, health promotion, policy studies, administrative, and political science. Finally some metrics. More than 200 peer reviewed articles and eight books. H-index 27. 50 online lectures and videos at Vimeo.
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