Mr Daniel Gilfillan

Dr Daniel Gilfillan – Climate change, human health and renewable energy

Dr Daniel Gilfillan works on renewable and clean energy projects, as well as in health and environment. Dr Gilfillan has extensive work experience in the Asian region, including Southeast and South Asia as well as more limited experience in the Pacific.

Renewable Energy

Since 2019 Dr Gilfillan has worked on renewables-based electricity generation and storage. His experience includes:

• Modelling of floating solar potential in the Greater Mekong Subregion,
• Pacific Rim studies of pumped storage hydropower status, policy frameworks and potential.
• Managing Southeast Asian and South Asian projects aimed at encouraging decision-makers to consider the need for solar and wind generators and electrical energy storage, in order to enhance the reliability of their electricity grids at the same time as meeting their international carbon emissions commitments.
• Providing advice on an APEC project that examined opportunities and challenges for three APEC economies (Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and Thailand) to develop pumped hydro to underpin their renewable energy transitions.

Dr Gilfillan has been the lead author of both technical papers and journal articles on pumped storage hydropower.

Health and Environment

Dr Gilfillan has consulted to the World Health Organisation (WHO) for four years, supporting climate change health and environment work across the Asia-Pacific region. Specific focus areas of his work with WHO have included climate resilient and environmentally sustainable healthcare facilities (CRESHCF), healthcare waste management, and building health system resilience to climate change.
Dr Gilfillan has also worked on and evaluated a number of Asian Development Bank environmental health projects such as a Greater Mekong Subregion-wide climate change adaptation and health project and a health impact assessment mainstreaming project. His impact assessment work has also included working on an Asian Development Bank funded strategic environmental assessment (SEA) project in Thailand, and preparing a socio-economic assessment and mitigation plan for a Mekong navigation upgrade project in Thailand and Lao PDR. Dr Gilfillan’s work in environmental health has led to a variety of peer reviewed publications, which can be seen by navigating to his google citations page.

Education

Dr Gilfillan holds a PhD on climate change and health governance with a focus on Southeast Asia, from the Australian National University. He also holds a Masters degree in international development from the University of Wollongong.

PhD (Climate Change and Health Governance)

1. Governance of Climate Change Adaptation and Human Health
2. Project Management for Climate Change Adaptation
3. Adaptation to Climate Change in the Pacific
4. Adaptation to Climate Change in Southeast Asia
5. Renewables-based electricity generation and pumped storage hydropower for sustainable low carbon electricity systems