Dr Andrew Mathieson

Senior lecturer at Australian National University, teaching withing Health Science degree and public health since 2012.  He has worked as a consultant in Environmental Health and Public Health since 2004 and has advised at government and inter-governmental level on environmental health (WASH, Food Safety, SPS, disaster recovery and resilience), education and training in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Fiji, Vanuatu, Tonga, Tomor Leste, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. 

Dr Mathieson trained as an environmental health officer in Scotland in the late 1980’s and subsequently worked in Scotland, England and Wales before entering academia in 1997.  He has carried out the full range of academic duties including course design, development, accreditation, evaluation and convenor.  He has held a number of faculty appointments including course leader, course director, chair of examinations, deputy chair ethics and sat on both faculty and university boards including academic board. He emigrating to Australia with his family in 2011. 

He is a passionate lecturer and holds Fellowships from the Royal Society of Medicine, Royal Society of Public Health, Institute of Food Science and Technology and the Higher Education Academy.

In 2010 he became an EU appointed consultant for public health, SPS, monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) missions and has deployed to Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Jordan, Qatar, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Fiji, PNG and Vanuatu.

He regularly undertakes consultancy roles within Pacific Region.

National and International conference papers 50+

Prof Doc - Post Conflict Health reconstruction (Basra post -2003)

Environmental health in the widest interpretation

Health Systems - monitoring and evaluation

Health communication / education / intervention based outcomers

Removing Technical Barriers to Trade and meeting Sanitary/Phyto-sanitary requirements

HACCP / food safety / compliance strategies and education

Focused on working in remote/challenging environments - Middle East, far east and Oceania.