Climate adversity and resilience: the voice of rural Australia

Fiona Ng

qualifications: BHSc(Hons)

contribution: designed the project, literature review, collected data, wrote the first draft

position: Research assistant

Australia

Rural health, mental health, health servicing. Email: fyyn431@uowmail.edu.au

Leigh Wilson

qualifications: Dr Public Health

contribution: original concept, designed the project, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts

position: Director

Australia

Public Health Epidemiology Rural and remote health Climate change and health Behavioural health sciences

Prof Craig Veitch

qualifications: PhD

contribution: designed the project, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts

position: Honorary professor

Professor Craig Veitch was the inaugural Chair of Rural Health at James Cook University, Queensland from 2000 to 2007. In December 2007, he became the inaugural Professor of Community Based Health Care at The University of Sydney and the Director of the Centre for Community Based Health Care at Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney. His research interests include health care behaviour and decision making, health services research, road crashes, cancer, health workforce in rural areas, community based rehabilitation, and outreach rehabilitation services.