Professor of Planetary Health in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney

Anthony Capon is the inaugural Professor of Planetary Health in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, where he also directs the transdisciplinary Planetary Health Platform. He is public health physician with 30 years of leadership experience spanning education, research, policy and practice roles. A former director of the International Institute for Global Health at United Nations University (UNU-IIGH), Tony is an authority on environmental health and health promotion. His research focuses on cross-disciplinary understanding of urban futures, sustainable development and human health. Since 2008, Tony has advised the International Science Council on their global interdisciplinary science program on health and wellbeing in the changing urban environment using systems approaches. He is a member of the Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on Planetary Health which published its report Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch in 2015 and the editorial advisory board for The Lancet Planetary Health. Tony has served in numerous honorary leadership roles with professional and not-for-profit organisations including the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, the International Society for Urban Health and the Frank Fenner Foundation.