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Philip Weinstein 
| Head of Research Phil is a Professor and one of the founding members of the Ecology and Health research group at the School of Population Health. He has a background in both medicine (MB BS) and ecology (PhD), with specialist qualifications in epidemiology and environmental health. His areas of research expertise include environmental epidemiology and ecosystem health and he has wide experience in identifying and managing communicable diseases, including vector-borne illness and outbreak investigations for water and food borne pathogens. He has published extensively in journals of medicine, public health, epidemiology, entomology and human geography. |
Selected publications:
Weinstein, P. and Cook, A. (2005) Volcanic emissions and health. In: Selinus, O., et al. (eds) Essentials of Medical Geology, Ch 9 pp. 203-226. Academic Press, Amsterdam | | Weinstein, P. and Slaney, D. (2004) Psychiatry and Insects: Phobias and delusions of insect infestations in humans. In: Capinera, J.L. (ed.) Encyclopeadia of Entomology, pp.229-231. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. | | Weinstein, P. and Cook, A. (2007) Epidemiological transitions and the changing face of medical geology. AMBIO 36: 67-69. | | Weinstein, P. (2005) Human health is harmed by ecosystem degradation, but does intervention improve it? A research challenge from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. EcoHealth 2: 1-3. | | Weinstein, P. (2005) Palaeopathology by proxy: the case of Egil's bones. Journal of Archaeological Science 32: 1075-1080. | | Cook, A., Finkelman, R., and Weinstein, P. (2004) Geological factors in the emergence of infectious disease. Pathology International 54 (Supp. 1): S131-135. | | Harris, A., Gray, M.A., Slaney, D.P., Turley, M.L., Fowles J.R. and Weinstein, P. (2004) Ethnic differences in diet and associations with clinical markers of prostate disease in New Zealand men. Anticancer Research 24: 2551-2556. |
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