Monash Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health (MonCOEH)

The Monash Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health (MonCOEH) is one of Australia's leading research and education centres in this field, and comprises about 30 researchers, PhD students, teaching and administrative staff.

MonCOEH is part of the the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. MonCOEH has a very diverse research program which includes several occupational cohort studies of chronic diseases in petroleum workers, aluminium industry workers, orchardists, lead workers, asbestos cement workers, firefighters, nurses and military veterans.

MonCOEH also has research interests in occupational disease surveillance, respiratory and cardiac effects of small particles and other air pollutants, OHS aspects of occupational light vehicle use, the health effects of mobile phone use, workplace health promotion, nanotechnology and methods of exposure assessment. We have a five-year NHMRC Public Health Capacity Building Grant to build research capacity in workplace public health and several other NHMRC grants.

MonCOEH has many national and international research collaborators and is a research hub for the Institute for Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research. MonCOEH also has an active PhD program, runs regular short courses and offers several postgraduate courses in occupational and environmental health, which can be taken by part or full time study.

MonCOEH staff are members of many national and international professional, government and advisory bodies. MonCOEH is applying to become a WHO Co-ordinating Centre in Occupational Health and is also a co-leader of the Occupational and Environmental Health Program of the Monash Initiative for Global Health Improvement (MIGHI).

Click here for a list of opportunities that are currently available within MonCOEH