Professor Sotiris Vardoulakis is Director of the NHMRC Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) National Research Network and Professor of Environmental Public Health at the University of Canberra Health Research Institute. Previously, Sotiris held senior academic, civil service and consultancy positions in the UK and Australia. He was Research Director at the Institute of Occupational Medicine (Edinburgh), Head of Environmental Change at Public Health England, and Professor of Global Environmental Health at the Australian National University. He is Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter European Centre for Environment and Human Health, and Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.