Claire Leppold
Biographic Data
| ID | 1405372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Leppold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Leppold |
| SIGNATURE | LEPPOLD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4268-3105 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mapping stories through multiple disasters
Public health and wellbeing under compounding climate hazards
There is growing attention to the health effects of compounding hazards and disasters. This paper overviews what is currently known about physical health, mental health, and wellbeing effects, identifying studies that show progress in the field by moving away from analyzing single hazards separately to understand their combined effects. However, to ensure we can see the full scale of health effects from compounding events, this paper argues that …
Urban violence
An endless present
Disasters rupture everyday social orders and relationships, including the experience of time. This article examines social narratives of time in the context of multiple disasters in rural and regional Australia. It presents findings from semi-structured interviews with community-based disaster recovery workers who were deployed in places that experienced multiple disasters between 2017 and 2022. We explore the interviewees’ own experiences of wor…
Recovery work in cascading and compounding disasters
Disaster recovery has traditionally been conceptualised and operationalised on the basis of disasters occurring as single ‘events’ that are managed separately. However, there are cases where communities experience disasters that overlap, repeat, and compound in effects. This study addresses the following research questions: What do recovery workers see as the impacts of multiple disasters on community recovery? How is the process of supporting di…
Disciplinary Research Ethics Cultures in Disaster Settings
Research ethics can be bound by implicit disciplinary understandings of what constitutes risk and how these should be mitigated in the field. The area of health research in post-disaster contexts draws in researchers from a variety of disciplines who are interested in a range of questions. In analysing researchers' experiences of research ethics in the context of the 3.11 disaster in Japan, this paper investigates the ways in which disciplinary c…
Interdisciplinary challenges for wildfire futures
What does it mean to conduct ethical research after disasters? A case study of the 3.11 disaster in Japan
The 3.11 disaster in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, is a useful case study through which to interrogate research ethics. This region has been the site of a high degree of research interest, which sometimes presented a source of stress to local communities. This study examines researcher perspectives on the ethics of post-disaster health research. Qualitative interviews were conducted with these informants, who noted that recovering communities expe…
Growing up in Victoria, Australia, in the midst of the climate emergency
Children and young people (henceforth referred to as young people) are one of the groups most affected by climate change and are at the forefront of climate action. Yet, there is scarce evidence on how young people navigate the challenges presented by climate change using their personal strengths and the resources accessible to them. This study aimed to address this gap by drawing on qualitative data from workshops with 31 young people between 12…
Ethical research practice in health and disasters
Research on health and disasters within the social sciences and public health is produced from a wide range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives. Major disaster events continue to highlight the need for health and disaster researchers to further reflect on the procedural and practical aspects of research ethics. We conduct a scoping review and qualitative frame analysis of 76 empirical articles from 2000 onwards, with the aim of uncove…
Health, Wellbeing and Community Recovery in Fukushima
Comparative risk assessment of non-communicable diseases by evacuation scenario– a retrospective study in the 7 years following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident
Background: As a result of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, many residents evacuated and were exposed to changes in their living environment and socioeconomic status, and to persistent stressors. Past studies have suggested the potential for these circumstances to contribute to long-term changes to population health.Objective: The objective of this study was to gain a better understanding of long-term health effects of evacuati…
Impacts of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster on healthcare facilities
Risk, uncertainty and medical practice
Risk and uncertainty can destabilise and reconstruct the relationships between medicine, policy and publics. Through semi-structured interviews with medical staff following the Fukushima 3.11 Disaster, this paper demonstrates the way in which disruption (caused by disaster), coupled with uncertainty (in this case, around radiation risk) can serve to transform medical practices. After Fukushima, a deficit in publicly-trusted approaches to disaster…
Birth Outcomes after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Disaster
Changes in population birth outcomes, including increases in low birthweight or preterm births, have been documented after natural and manmade disasters. However, information is limited following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Disaster. In this study, we assessed whether there were long-term changes in birth outcomes post-disaster, compared to pre-disaster data, and whether residential area and food purchasing patterns, as proxy m…
Excess mortality due to indirect health effects of the 2011 triple disaster in Fukushima, Japan
BACKGROUND: Evidence on the indirect health impacts of disasters is limited. We assessed the excess mortality risk associated with the indirect health impacts of the 2011 triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster) in Fukushima, Japan. METHODS: The mortality rates in Soma and Minamisoma cities in Fukushima from 2006 to 2015 were calculated using vital statistics and resident registrations. We investigated the excess mortality risk,…
Disappearing everyday materials
The increase in long-term care public expenditure following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster
The increasing proportions of older people in populations are a reflection of global trends of increased longevity and decreased fertility rates. In the multifaceted consequences of this population change, the burden of increasing public expenditure on long-term care (LTC) may be one of the biggest problems for developed countries.1 Public expenditure on LTC is calculated by multiplying the number of adults aged 65 years and older by the average …
What does it mean to conduct ethical research after disasters? A case study of the 3.11 disaster in Japan
The 3.11 disaster in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, is a useful case study through which to interrogate research ethics. This region has been the site of a high degree of research interest, which sometimes presented a source of stress to local communities. This study examines researcher perspectives on the ethics of post-disaster health research. Qualitative interviews were conducted with these informants, who noted that recovering communities expe…
Excess mortality due to indirect health effects of the 2011 triple disaster in Fukushima, Japan
BACKGROUND: Evidence on the indirect health impacts of disasters is limited. We assessed the excess mortality risk associated with the indirect health impacts of the 2011 triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster) in Fukushima, Japan. METHODS: The mortality rates in Soma and Minamisoma cities in Fukushima from 2006 to 2015 were calculated using vital statistics and resident registrations. We investigated the excess mortality risk,…
Risk, uncertainty and medical practice
Risk and uncertainty can destabilise and reconstruct the relationships between medicine, policy and publics. Through semi-structured interviews with medical staff following the Fukushima 3.11 Disaster, this paper demonstrates the way in which disruption (caused by disaster), coupled with uncertainty (in this case, around radiation risk) can serve to transform medical practices. After Fukushima, a deficit in publicly-trusted approaches to disaster…
Disappearing everyday materials
The increase in long-term care public expenditure following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster
The increasing proportions of older people in populations are a reflection of global trends of increased longevity and decreased fertility rates. In the multifaceted consequences of this population change, the burden of increasing public expenditure on long-term care (LTC) may be one of the biggest problems for developed countries.1 Public expenditure on LTC is calculated by multiplying the number of adults aged 65 years and older by the average …
Birth Outcomes after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Disaster
Changes in population birth outcomes, including increases in low birthweight or preterm births, have been documented after natural and manmade disasters. However, information is limited following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Disaster. In this study, we assessed whether there were long-term changes in birth outcomes post-disaster, compared to pre-disaster data, and whether residential area and food purchasing patterns, as proxy m…
Excess mortality due to indirect health effects of the 2011 triple disaster in Fukushima, Japan
BACKGROUND: Evidence on the indirect health impacts of disasters is limited. We assessed the excess mortality risk associated with the indirect health impacts of the 2011 triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster) in Fukushima, Japan. METHODS: The mortality rates in Soma and Minamisoma cities in Fukushima from 2006 to 2015 were calculated using vital statistics and resident registrations. We investigated the excess mortality risk,…
Disappearing everyday materials
Risk, uncertainty and medical practice
Risk and uncertainty can destabilise and reconstruct the relationships between medicine, policy and publics. Through semi-structured interviews with medical staff following the Fukushima 3.11 Disaster, this paper demonstrates the way in which disruption (caused by disaster), coupled with uncertainty (in this case, around radiation risk) can serve to transform medical practices. After Fukushima, a deficit in publicly-trusted approaches to disaster…
Impacts of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster on healthcare facilities
Comparative risk assessment of non-communicable diseases by evacuation scenario– a retrospective study in the 7 years following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident
Background: As a result of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, many residents evacuated and were exposed to changes in their living environment and socioeconomic status, and to persistent stressors. Past studies have suggested the potential for these circumstances to contribute to long-term changes to population health.Objective: The objective of this study was to gain a better understanding of long-term health effects of evacuati…
Health, Wellbeing and Community Recovery in Fukushima
Ethical research practice in health and disasters
Research on health and disasters within the social sciences and public health is produced from a wide range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives. Major disaster events continue to highlight the need for health and disaster researchers to further reflect on the procedural and practical aspects of research ethics. We conduct a scoping review and qualitative frame analysis of 76 empirical articles from 2000 onwards, with the aim of uncove…
Growing up in Victoria, Australia, in the midst of the climate emergency
Children and young people (henceforth referred to as young people) are one of the groups most affected by climate change and are at the forefront of climate action. Yet, there is scarce evidence on how young people navigate the challenges presented by climate change using their personal strengths and the resources accessible to them. This study aimed to address this gap by drawing on qualitative data from workshops with 31 young people between 12…
Recovery work in cascading and compounding disasters
Disaster recovery has traditionally been conceptualised and operationalised on the basis of disasters occurring as single ‘events’ that are managed separately. However, there are cases where communities experience disasters that overlap, repeat, and compound in effects. This study addresses the following research questions: What do recovery workers see as the impacts of multiple disasters on community recovery? How is the process of supporting di…
Disciplinary Research Ethics Cultures in Disaster Settings
Research ethics can be bound by implicit disciplinary understandings of what constitutes risk and how these should be mitigated in the field. The area of health research in post-disaster contexts draws in researchers from a variety of disciplines who are interested in a range of questions. In analysing researchers' experiences of research ethics in the context of the 3.11 disaster in Japan, this paper investigates the ways in which disciplinary c…
Interdisciplinary challenges for wildfire futures
What does it mean to conduct ethical research after disasters? A case study of the 3.11 disaster in Japan
The 3.11 disaster in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, is a useful case study through which to interrogate research ethics. This region has been the site of a high degree of research interest, which sometimes presented a source of stress to local communities. This study examines researcher perspectives on the ethics of post-disaster health research. Qualitative interviews were conducted with these informants, who noted that recovering communities expe…
Mapping stories through multiple disasters
Public health and wellbeing under compounding climate hazards
There is growing attention to the health effects of compounding hazards and disasters. This paper overviews what is currently known about physical health, mental health, and wellbeing effects, identifying studies that show progress in the field by moving away from analyzing single hazards separately to understand their combined effects. However, to ensure we can see the full scale of health effects from compounding events, this paper argues that …
Urban violence
An endless present
Disasters rupture everyday social orders and relationships, including the experience of time. This article examines social narratives of time in the context of multiple disasters in rural and regional Australia. It presents findings from semi-structured interviews with community-based disaster recovery workers who were deployed in places that experienced multiple disasters between 2017 and 2022. We explore the interviewees’ own experiences of wor…
Medicine (10 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (9 works) · Disaster Response and Management (8 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Occupational safety and health (4 works) · Population (4 works)