Angus Cook

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Dr Cook is a medical graduate (MBChB, Auck 1992) and registered medical practitioner (ACT, 1994). He completed two years of medical officer duties at Woden Valley Hospital (now the Canberra Hospital). During the 1990s, he gained extensive health research experience concurrently with his ongoing practice at community medical clinics.

In 1999, he commenced his PhD at the Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine (University of Otago), New Zealand, where he worked with an IARC-coordinated case-control study of cellphone radiation exposure and cancer (2000-2003). He has extensive community health research experience from Melbourne and Monash Universities in Australia and from the Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine (University of Otago) in New Zealand.

Dr Cook has close research and education links with the public health community in Western Australia and more widely in air pollution modelling. Major partners include the Environmental Health Directorate at the Departments of Health in WA and in NSW and the Air Quality Division of the Department of the Environment.

Selected publications 

Cook A, Watson J, van Buynder P, Robertson A, Weinstein P. 2008. Natural disasters and their long-term impacts on the health of communities. Journal of Environmental Monitoring 10, 167-75

Weinstein, P. and Cook, A. 2007. Epidemiological transitions and the changing face of medical geology. AMBIO 36, 67-69.

Cook A, Weinstein P, Centeno J. 2005. Health effects of natural dust: role of trace elements and compounds.  Biological Trace Element Research 103:1, 1-15.  

Cook, A, Weinstein, P. 2005  Volcanic emissions and health risks of metal contaminants in New Zealand.  In: Metal contaminants: sources, effects and integration in New Zealand,  Moore, T. et al (eds).  University of Canterbury Press.

Weinstein, P. and Cook, A. 2005. Volcanic emissions and health. In: Selinus, O., et al. (eds) Essentials of Medical Geology, Chapter 9, 203-226. Academic Press, Amsterdam.

Cook, A., Finkelman, R., and Weinstein, P. 2004. Geological factors in the emergence of infectious disease. Pathology International 54:1, S131-135.

Cook A,  Jardine A and Weinstein P. 2004. Using human disease outbreaks as a guide to multilevel ecosystem interventions. Environmental Health Perspectives 112, 1143-6.