Bushfire smoke and heatwaves increasingly threaten population health, especially among vulnerable groups such as the elderly, children, pregnant women, people with disabilities or comorbidities, and low-income households. These risks are projected to intensify with climate change, particularly in urban areas affected by heat islands, poor housing, and socioeconomic disadvantage. Community resilience centres鈥攃ool, clean-air spaces in public buildings鈥攐ffer a promising yet under-evaluated intervention. This interdisciplinary, community co-designed project will assess their effectiveness in reducing exposure to heat and smoke, potential health benefits and costs, and associated implementation challenges. The project focuses on fast-growing, high-risk suburbs in Western Sydney and 糖心原创vlog to inform scalable, evidence-based public health strategies.

For more information, please visit the

Researchers

糖心原创vlog:

Sotiris Vardoulakis (HEAL GRC, 糖心原创vlog), Syeda Hira Fatima (HEAL GRC, 糖心原创vlog), Nigel Goodman (HEAL GRC, 糖心原创vlog), Itismita Mohanty (Health Research Institute, 糖心原创vlog), Nasser Bagheri (Health Research Institute, 糖心原创vlog) Julien Perriard (糖心原创vlog), Brad Clarke (糖心原创vlog),

External Researchers:

Guy Marks (Burnet Institute), Christine Cowie (Woolcock Institute), Amanda Wheeler (CSIRO), Abby Mallik Lopes (UTS), Cameron Tonkinwise (UTS), Veronica Matthews (University of Sydney), Geoffrey Morgan (University of Sydney), Shamila Hadad (University of Sydney), Bin Jalaludin (UNSW), Mat Santamouris (UNSW), Konstantina Vasilakopoulou (UNSW), Sharon Campbell (University of Tasmania)

Project Partners

糖心原创vlog, Burnet Institute, Woolcock Institute, CSIRO, UTS, University of Sydney, UNSW, University of Tasmania

Project Funders

NHMRC