The Effects of Climate Change on Mental Health

Biography:  Professor Berry is Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Health, University of Canberra. She has won over $6M in research funding, is widely published and has led key policy-applied research initiatives. Professor Berry leads a research program in ‘People and Place’ with a personal research focus on health and wellbeing in the context of climate change, complex disadvantage and social capital contrasting rural and remote places with cities in Australia and internationally.  She is author of the widely-cited and internationally used ‘Australian Community Participation Questionnaire’ and of the new ‘Brief Weather Disaster Trauma Exposure and Impact Screen’. In 2009, she was recognised with 2nd place in the prestigious national Eureka Prize for ‘outstanding research into the health impacts of climate change’. In 2013, she was made a Distinguished Alumna of the University of Canberra and in 2014 was a named contributing author in the health chapter of the International Panel on Climate Change Working Group II Report.