Rate My Professor Nick Wilson

His research interests include the health economics of primary prevention as part of the BODE³ Programme, tobacco use epidemiology and control through the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Project, infectious disease control with a focus on pandemic influenza and other diseases, climate change and air pollution, and strategies to prevent and build resilience against catastrophic risks such as severe pandemics and nuclear war. He has produced over 450 peer-reviewed publications indexed in Medline, accumulating more than 21,000 citations in Scopus. Key publications encompass 'Why Do People Attack Military Statues? A National Survey Experiment' (2024), research on health-impaired world leaders and nuclear war risks (2025), New Zealand's potential to produce food in a nuclear winter (2023), differential lifespan impacts on First World War veterans (2022), and lessons from lead removal from gasoline for other pollutants (2008). His contributions have informed public health policy, including technical advice during the COVID-19 pandemic.