The University of Western Australia
Asst/Prof Peter Franklin
Research Assistant Professor
School of Population Health
- Contact details
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- Address
- School of Population Health
The University of Western Australia (M431)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia
- Phone
- 6488 7091
- Fax
- 6488 1611
- peter.franklin@uwa.edu.au
- Qualifications
- BSc W.Aust., GradDipEnvSc PhD Murd.
- Key research
- Environmental health, Air pollution, Respiratory disease, Infant lung function
- Roles, responsibilities and expertise
- Peter Franklin is a researcher with interests in environmetnal impacts on human health. His research has been focussed on the impacts of air pollution, predominantly indoor air pollution, on the respiratory health of children and adults. He currently heads the indoor air pollution node of the Collaborative Research Centre for Asthma and Airways. He is also the Environmental Co-ordinator of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on Children's Environmental Health at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. His research interests also involve measures of infant and pre-school lung function and how these tests can be utilised in environmental health research.
Current appointments
Research Assistant Professor
School of Population Health, University of Western Australia
Environmental Co-ordinator
World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Children’s Environmental Health
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
- Previous positions
- Jan 02 – Dec 05: UWA School of Paediatrics and Child Health, Research Fellow (NH&MRC Public Health Postdoctoral Training Fellowship)
Jun 98 – 2001: UWA Department of Paediatrics, Research Associate
- Current external positions
- Honorary Research Fellow
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
Senior Lecturer (Adjunct title)
School of Paediatrics and Child Health,
University of Western Australia
Senior Lecturer (Adjunct title)
School of Health Sciences
Curtin University of Technology
Senior Lecturer (Adjunct title)
School of Natural and Health Sciences
Edith Cowan University
- Current projects
- 1. Use of unflued gas heaters and ongoing symptoms in seniors with asthma (CRC)
2. The impact of day-to-day variations in indoor air pollution on respiratory symptoms in asthmatic children (ARC)
3. Impact of environment on foetal and infant growth anddevelopment (ARC)
4. Impactof pre-natal exposure to air piollution on lung funtion in early life (NHMRC) - Research profile
- Research profile and publications