Professor Jane Heyworth is an environmental epidemiologist with over thirty years’ experience in environmental health research, policy, and practice. She is currently Deputy Head of the School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, where she teaches public health and epidemiology in undergraduate and postgraduate programs and coordinates epidemiology teaching. Her career began as an Environmental Health Officer for Shires in Western Australia from 1980 to 1984. She then served as Research Assistant at the NHMRC Road Accident Research Unit, University of Adelaide (1985-1987), Public Health Trainee and Scientific Officer at the South Australian Health Commission (1987-1991), and Lecturer in Environmental Health and Program Coordinator at Flinders University (1991-1997), where she developed curricula for a new environmental health degree. Since joining UWA in 2000, she has held positions including Lecturer and Coordinator of the Public Health major (2000-2005), Sub-Dean Health Sciences and Associate Professor (2005-2011), Sub-Dean Health Sciences and Professor (2011-2015), and currently Deputy Head of School and Senior Honorary Research Fellow.

Professor Heyworth’s research interests center on environmental causes of chronic illness and water quality and health, with expertise in environmental epidemiology, rainwater quality, environmental causes of cancer, and health effects of long-term air pollution exposure. She has supervised eight PhD students to completion and leads projects including health effects of long-term air pollution exposure, occupational injury prevention in high temperature environments, air pollution exposure estimation for cohort studies, Clean Air and Urban Landscapes, and work-related hearing loss in Australia. Key publications include “Estimates of global mortality burden associated with short-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2·5)” (The Lancet Planetary Health, 2024), “Deep ensemble machine learning with Bayesian blending improved accuracy and precision of modelled ground-level ozone for region with sparse monitoring: Australia, 2005–2018” (Environmental Modelling and Software, 2025), “Respiratory risks from wildfire-specific PM2.5 across multiple countries and territories” (Nature Sustainability, 2025), and “Health risks of exposure to wildfire-toxic air: Air pollution impacts” (Nature Sustainability, 2025). She has received nine excellence in teaching awards, including the 2014 national Office for Learning and Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. Professor Heyworth chaired the WA Public Health Advocacy Institute’s Committee on Environment and Health and co-chaired the 2003 International Society for Environmental Epidemiology conference in Perth.

Professional Email: jane.heyworth@uwa.edu.au