Angie Bone is Associate Professor of Practice in Planetary Health at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI) at Monash University. She leads the Environment and Health strategic domain, focusing particularly on system transformation for health sector resilience and sustainability, and planetary health. These are areas very much of concern to management accountants who champion ‘Sustainable Value Creation’.
Dr. Bone is a senior Public Health Physician originally from the UK, with extensive experience in responding to the health effects of high impact weather, researching effective measures to reduce health risks and increase population and health service resilience, and promoting sustainability in all its forms. In a more recent role, as former Deputy Chief Health Officer (environment) at the Department of Health in Victoria, Dr. Bone provided expert advice to Ministers, senior officials and the community on risks to health and how to mitigate them.
Her work on environment and health was preceded by over 15 years of experience as a front-line public health doctor and epidemiologist in several low, middle and high income countries in Europe and Africa with a range of different organisations, including the World Health Organisation and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Dr. Bone works with a range of disciplines across the research/policy/practice interface, providing public health technical expertise combined with policy and implementation experience, to strengthen the evidence on the health impacts of climate change and the interventions to reduce risk. Management accountants are very much concerned in the allocation of scarce resources in meeting the twin challenges of sustaining lives and livelihoods, and the accountability issues that surface in crisis scenarios. We recognise the tremendous value of the social purpose alliances formed by Dr. Bone in leveraging the strengths of multiple disciplines to respond to crises such as global pandemics and climate challenges. This was also recognised when she was invited as a COP28 delegate, the first-time health had a central position on the climate change agenda internationally.
Dr. Angie Bone graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, from the University of Manchester, and a Master of Science in Public Health in Developing Countries from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She has a Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, a Post-graduate Certificate in Human Rights and International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and most recently she gained a Post-graduate Certificate in Systems Thinking in Practice, from the Open University (UK).
She is a fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and its UK equivalent. She has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, presented at numerous forums nationally and internationally on climate change, sustainability and health, and serves on a number of expert and translation advisory groups in relation to the environmental determinants of population health.
The Institute of Certified Management Accountants is honoured to induct Dr. Angie Bone to its Social Purpose Innovator Hall of Fame for her impact in taking an interdisciplinary approach in championing sustainable and equitable business practices relating to bringing about systems transformation in environmental and planetary health.