Professor Alistair Woodward is an epidemiologist and public health medicine specialist.

Alistair was Head of the School of Population Health at Auckland from 2004-2012 and previously led departments of public health at the University of Otago Wellington, and the University of Adelaide. His research and teaching is concerned primarily with environmental matters and the social determinants of health.

Alistair has been closely involved with the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for more than 20 years. Examples of his current work include: climate change impacts in the Pacific; the effects of street changes on health and safety; pathways to sustainable, healthy and fair transport systems; the future of the bicycle.