Dr Edward Jegasothy
I am an epidemiologist and biostatistician working in Environmental Health at the School of Public Health. I received my PhD in 2020 which investigated environmental exposures, air pollution and temperature, and their health effects on vulnerable people in NSW. In 2018, I completed the NSW Health Biostatistics Training Program and Master of Biostatistics. This involved work in environmental health, road safety and perinatal health. In 2013, I completed my Master of International Public Health at the University of Sydney. Prior to that, I spent over a year in Timor-Leste working with the Dili, City of Peace campaign.
- Air pollution
- Ambient temperature and heatwaves
- Socioeconomic disparities
- Urban development and health
- Healthy policy
- Environmental Epidemiology
- Environmental Health
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change and Health
- Biostatistics
- Quantifying the health risks of bushfire smoke during the 2019-2020 bushfire season in NSW
- Identifying the health impacts of climate change, adaptation strategies and responses among Aboriginal communities in NSW
Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) NSW Branch Committee Member
Publications
Journals
- Qureshi, M., Harris, P., Jegasothy, E., Seale, H., Chughtai, A., Quinlan, M. (2024). Transport industry workforce risk and exposure to COVID-19 and other related respiratory pandemic diseases: A scoping review. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 35(3), 518-555. [More Information]
- Singh, T., Jalaludin, B., Hajat, S., Morgan, G., Meissner, K., Kaldor, J., Green, D., Jegasothy, E. (2023). Acute air pollution and temperature exposure as independent and joint triggers of spontaneous preterm birth in New South Wales, Australia: a time-to-event analysis. Frontiers in Public Health, 11. [More Information]
- Jegasothy, E., Hanigan, I., Van Buskirk, J., Morgan, G., Jalaludin, B., Johnston, F., Guo, Y., Broome, R. (2023). Acute health effects of bushfire smoke on mortality in Sydney, Australia. Environment International, 171. [More Information]
2024
- Qureshi, M., Harris, P., Jegasothy, E., Seale, H., Chughtai, A., Quinlan, M. (2024). Transport industry workforce risk and exposure to COVID-19 and other related respiratory pandemic diseases: A scoping review. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 35(3), 518-555. [More Information]
2023
- Singh, T., Jalaludin, B., Hajat, S., Morgan, G., Meissner, K., Kaldor, J., Green, D., Jegasothy, E. (2023). Acute air pollution and temperature exposure as independent and joint triggers of spontaneous preterm birth in New South Wales, Australia: a time-to-event analysis. Frontiers in Public Health, 11. [More Information]
- Jegasothy, E., Hanigan, I., Van Buskirk, J., Morgan, G., Jalaludin, B., Johnston, F., Guo, Y., Broome, R. (2023). Acute health effects of bushfire smoke on mortality in Sydney, Australia. Environment International, 171. [More Information]
- Lee, G., Van Buskirk, J., Jegasothy, E., Knibbs, L., Cowie, C., Morgan, G. (2023). Cleaner air for vulnerable people – Finding better locations for essential building premises. City and Environment Interactions, 20. [More Information]
2022
- Standen, J., Spencer, J., Lee, G., Van Buskirk, J., Matthews, V., Hanigan, I., Boylan, S., Jegasothy, E., Petersen, M., Morgan, G. (2022). Aboriginal Population and Climate Change in Australia: Implications for Health and Adaptation Planning. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(12). [More Information]
- McKenzie, J., Longman, J., Bailie, R., Braddon, M., Morgan, G., Jegasothy, E., Bennett-Levy, J. (2022). Insurance Issues as Secondary Stressors Following Flooding in Rural Australia-A Mixed Methods Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11), 6383. [More Information]
- Jegasothy, E., Randall, D., Ford, J., Nippita, T., Morgan, G. (2022). Maternal factors and risk of spontaneous preterm birth due to high ambient temperatures in New South Wales, Australia. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 36(1), 4-12. [More Information]
2021
- Hanigan, I., Broome, R., Chaston, T., Cope, M., Dennekamp, M., Heyworth, J., Heathcote (nee Jong), K., Horsley, J., Jalaludin, B., Jegasothy, E., Morgan, G., et al (2021). Avoidable Mortality Attributable to Anthropogenic Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) in Australia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(1), 254-1-254-9. [More Information]
- Murphy, V., Karmaus, W., Mattes, J., Brew, B., Collison, A., Holliday, E., Jensen, M., Morgan, G., Zosky, G., McDonald, V., Jegasothy, E., Robinson, P., et al (2021). Exposure to stress and air pollution from bushfires during pregnancy: Could epigenetic changes explain effects on the offspring? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(14), 7465. [More Information]
- Robertson, T., McCarthy, A., Jegasothy, E., Harris, P. (2021). Urban transport infrastructure planning and the public interest: A public health perspective. Public Health Research and Practice, 31(2), e3122108. [More Information]
2020
- Zhong, S., Pang, M., Ho, H., Jegasothy, E., Clayton, S., Wang, Z., Huang, C. (2020). Assessing the effectiveness and pathways of planned shelters in protecting mental health of flood victims in China. Environmental Research Letters, 15(12), 125006. [More Information]
- Keane, L., Sherry, E., Schulenkorf, N., Negin, J., Ding, D., Bauman, A., Jegasothy, E., Richards, J. (2020). Personal, social, and environmental mediators associated with increased recreational physical activity in women and girls in the kingdom of Tonga. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 17(11), 1100-1108. [More Information]
2019
- Cowie, C., Garden, F., Jegasothy, E., Knibbs, L., Hanigan, I., Morley, D., Hansell, A., Hoek, G., Marks, G. (2019). Comparison of model estimates from an intra-city land use regression model with a national satellite-LUR and a regional Bayesian Maximum Entropy model, in estimating NO2 for a birth cohort in Sydney, Australia. Environmental Research, 174, 24-34. [More Information]
2018
- Jegasothy, E., Patterson, J., Randall, D., Nippita, T., Simpson, J., Irving, D., Ford, J. (2018). Assessing the effect of risk factors on rates of obstetric transfusion over time using two methodological approaches. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 18(1), 1-11. [More Information]
2017
- Jegasothy, E., McGuire, R., Nairn, J., Fawcett, R., Scalley, B. (2017). Extreme climatic conditions and health service utilisation across rural and metropolitan New South Wales. International Journal of Biometeorology, 61(8), 1359-1370. [More Information]
2016
- Scalley, B., Gee, A., Katzenellenbogen, J., Gilles, M., Jegasothy, E., Thompson, S. (2016). Improving the management of acute coronary syndrome for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal patients in a regional hospital. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 40(6), 529-534. [More Information]
- Broome, R., Cope, M., Goldsworthy, B., Goldsworthy, L., Emmerson, K., Jegasothy, E., Morgan, G. (2016). The mortality effect of ship-related fine particulate matter in the Sydney greater metropolitan region of NSW, Australia. Environment International, 87, 85-93. [More Information]
Selected Grants
2024
- Social Policy and the Root Causes of Health Inequality, Jegasothy E, Sydney Policy Lab/Sydney Policy Lab Node
2021
- Bushfire smoke exposure during pregnancy and epigenetic changes inoffspring, Gibson P, Morgan G, Jegasothy E, Karmaus W, Mattes J, Robinson P, Brew B, Collison A, Holliday E, Jensen M, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Ideas Grant
In the media
- The Conversation 28 October 2022 -Disempowered, shut off and less able to afford healthy choices – how financial hardship is bad for our health
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The Conversation 4 December 2018 -Health impacts and murky decision-making feed public distrust of projects like WestConnex