Professor Karin Leder
Director of Research, RISE and Director of Health and Climate Initiative, Monash University
Prof Karin Leder is a clinician, epidemiologist and public health professor. She leads collaborative research related to environmental exposures, including climate-related impacts.
At Monash University, she co-leads the Planetary Health Division at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and is the inaugural Director of Monash’s Health and Climate Initiative.
She has extensive experience convening transdisciplinary experts and leading complex research programs, particularly Director of Research for the Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE) program.
Additionally, she is a clinical infectious diseases specialising in spread of infections across international borders.