Dr Sharon Campbell is a postdoc researcher in the Environmental Health Research team at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research (University of Tasmania). She is a member of the Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL) National Research Network under the Bushfires, Air Pollution and Extreme Events theme. Sharon’s research broadly addresses the human health impacts of climate change, concentrating on climate-related extreme events such as heatwaves, bushfires and poor air quality. Sharon’s background in public health policy focusses her research to be practical and readily translated into practice.