Dr Grant Blashki is a practicing GP, Associate Professor at the Nossal Institute for Global Health at the University of Melbourne, Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash Sustainable Development Institute & Monash Climate Health Initiative, Fellow at the the Climate Council, former Lead Clinical Advisor for Beyond Blue, an active Media Commentator, Writer in Residence at Future Leaders books, and Honorary Professor at Shenzhen Luohu Hospital Group in China. His three themes of research are 1) Primary Mental Health Care 2) Climate Change and Health and 3) Digital Health. He also has expertise in ESG advisory, Workplace Mental Health, Pandemic Mental Health Care, Genetics in Primary Care, Artificial Intelligence, and Primary Health Care in China.
He is active on Linked In and has co-authored over 140 peer reviewed publications and 9 books. He is the lead editor of the text book General Practice Psychiatry which has been translated into Italian and Mandarin. Currently he leads the University of Melbourne Masters subject Planetary and Global Health.
He has been a chief investigator on numerous reseach projects and he was the lead developer of the Monash University/ University of Melbourne Masters of General Practice Psychiatry that trained over 150 doctors by distance education and for which he received a Monash University Silver Jubilee Prize for Teaching.
He has been actively engaged with community work including as The Chair of the Environmental Working Party of the World Organisation of Family Doctors, as a Board Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation, as a mentor in the Al Gore Climate Leadership Project, as a cofounder of Doctors for the Environment Australia, as Member of the Strategic Advisory Group of the Climate Institute, and he was a participant in the Australia 2020 summit participant. He previously served as Health Ambassador for the Lords Mayors Charitable Foundation.
In 2008, he was a co-recipient of the Fundraisers Institute of Australia’s Major Grants fundraising award for philanthropic work. In 2009 he was co recipient of an Australian Evaluation Society Award for Excellence in Evaluation in relation to evaluation of major primary health care reforms in Australia. In 2012, he successfully graduated from the Asia Link Leadership program. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and has served as an examiner for the fellowship. In 2024 he completed the Principles of Responsible Investment Certificate in Applied ESG, and completed the Australian Institute of Company Directors Climate Governance Certificate
Ccentric interview with industry leaders Grant Blashki
His career is summarised in this 2018 Medical Journal of Australia profile.
