Rate My Professor Adeleh Shirangi

Dr. Adeleh Shirangi serves as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Curtin School of Population Health within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. A senior public health epidemiologist and environmental health risk assessor, she brings over two decades of experience in leading high-impact research on occupational and environmental health risks. Shirangi earned her BSc in Public Health from Iran Medical Sciences University in Tehran, Master of Public Health from the University of Adelaide, and PhD in Public Health with a focus on Epidemiology from the University of Western Australia. Her career includes key appointments such as research positions at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London; School of Population Health, University of Western Australia; and Murdoch University, alongside roles in the Epidemiology Branch of the Western Australia Department of Health.

Shirangi's research specializations encompass reproductive epidemiology, particularly occupational exposures among female veterinarians, and the health impacts of environmental pollutants like fine particulate matter from landscape fires. She has received the Sidney Sax Postdoctoral Fellowship supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (Grant ID: 463908). Her scholarly contributions include over 25 peer-reviewed publications, with highly cited works such as 'Psychological well-being of Australian veterinarians' (2009, 166 citations), 'Injury in Australian veterinarians' (2006, 125 citations), 'Mental health in female veterinarians: effects of working hours and having children' (2013, 88 citations), 'Maternal occupational exposures and risk of spontaneous abortion in veterinary practice' (2008, 84 citations), and 'Associations of unscavenged anesthetic gases and long working hours with preterm delivery in female veterinarians' (2009, 73 citations). Recent lead-authored studies, including 'Exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) during landscape fire events and the risk of cardiorespiratory emergency department attendances: a time-series study in Perth, Western Australia' (2022), have demonstrated significant increases in emergency department visits for respiratory and cardiovascular conditions following bushfire smoke exposure, informing public health responses to environmental hazards.