Associate Professor Grant Blashki is a practicing GP, the Lead Clinical Advisor for Beyond Blue, Associate Professor at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, and the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute both at the University of Melbourne. Grant joined MSDI as an Adjunct Associate Professor in 2020.
He is Writer in Residence at Future Leaders books, Health Ambassador for the Lord Mayors Charitable Foundation, and Honorary Professor at Shenzhen Luohu Hospital Group in China. His three themes of research are 1) Mental Health 2) Environmental Health and 3) Global Health. He also has expertise Genetics in Primary Care, Artificial Intelligence in Health Care, and Primary Health Care in China.
He has co-authored over 125 peer reviewed publications and 8 books. For the last decade he has led the University of Melbourne Masters subject Planetary and Global Health.
He has been actively engaged with community work including as The Chair of the Environmental Working Party of the World Organisation of Family Doctors, as a Board Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation, as a mentor in the Al Gore Climate Leadership Project, and as a cofounder of Doctors for the Environment Australia.
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