Professor Brian Oldenburg

Professor Brian Oldenburg is the Inaugural Chair of International Public Health at Monash University’s School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and Associate Dean (Global Health and International Campuses) in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University. His research program spans the social sciences and public health, with the major focus being on health policy, global health and the primary and secondary prevention of non-communicable diseases and associated social and behavioural risk factors across the life-course. He also holds honorary positions as Visiting Professor at Beijing Centre for Diseases Control in China and the National Public Health Institute of Finland. He is also Regional Director of the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium of Public Health (APACPH). He has conducted research, teaching and consultancies in countries throughout the regions of Asia, the Pacific and Africa.