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Asia-Pacific Qualitative
Health Research Network

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Dr Catherine Trundle
Senior Lecturer
La Trobe University
​Dr Catherine Trundle is a medical anthropologist and ethnographer, and she gained her PhD from Cambridge University in 2009. Her research focuses on environmental health, including rights to a healthy environment, how inequality and social exclusion shape environments of wellbeing, and how to address the underlying systemic, political and social barriers to creating healthy environments. Her current research focuses on heat stress and climate justice in Australia. In asking how might we include diverse voices and perspectives to inform solutions to extreme heat, her research engages different knowledge holders, communicators, and organizers in Melbourne and Australia. As a health ethnographer and qualitative researcher, Dr Trundle co-organizes (along with Tarryn Phillips) the Health Ethnographies Collaboratory, an interdisciplinary network that aims to increase understanding of ethnography and spotlight its value for addressing health problems. She also has expertise in veterans' health and wellbeing, with over a decade of experience engaging veterans perspectives, and she contributes to evaluating and supporting veteran wellbeing programs in Australia.
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