Rate My Professor Simon Hales

Simon Hales has made substantial contributions to the field through high-impact publications. Among his most cited works are the IPCC Working Group II contribution "Climate change 2007: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability" (Cambridge University Press, 2007; 5127 citations), "Climate change and human health: present and future risks" (The Lancet, 2006; 3798 citations), "Potential effect of population and climate changes on global distribution of dengue fever: an empirical model" (The Lancet, 2002; 1463 citations), "Ecosystems and human well-being: health synthesis" (World Health Organization, 2005; 727 citations), and contributions to "Comparative quantification of health risks" (World Health Organization, 2004; 1878 citations). His body of work has amassed over 14,000 citations on Google Scholar, reflecting significant influence in epidemiology and environmental health sciences. Recent publications include "Future temperature-related labour loss due to premature deaths" (Environmental Research, 2026), "Risk, burden, and trend of infectious disease hospitalisations associated with floods" (Lancet Planetary Health, 2025), and analyses of drinking water sources protection (The Briefing, 2026).