Gavin Pereira

Professor Pereira is an epidemiologist, environmental health researcher and biostatistician. He leads the discipline of Health Economics, Epidemiology and Data Analytics at the Curtin School of Population Health. He has previously held positions in the Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology at Yale University and the Yale School of Environmental Studies; and has served on National Health and Medical Research Council review panels for over ten years. He leads large international studies to review clinical guidelines of the World Health Organization, evaluate effectiveness of vaccination, investigate the influence of air pollution and climate change on children's health, and to develop prognostic models for stillbirth and perinatal morbidity.