NHMRC Public Health Capacity Building Grant

Linking research, policy and health services to build a better evidence base for workplace public health

NHMRC Capacity Building Grant team, June 2009
Back row L to R: Prof Michael Abramson, Dr Donna Urquhart, Prof Malcolm Sim, Ms Tessa Keegel, Dr Martine Dennekamp.
Front row L to R: A/Prof Tony La Montagne, Dr Lesley Day, Dr Alison Reid, A/Prof Lin Fritschi. Missing: Dr Tim Driscoll, Dr Rosemary Nixon, Prof Brian Priestly.

MonCOEH has recently been awarded a five-year NHMRC Public Health Capacity Building Grant, focused on building national research capacity in workplace health and disease prevention. The grant brings together four of Australia’s leading population and occupational health researchers, along with some highly skilled mentors, to develop much needed national research capacity to reduce the burden of the largely hidden problem of occupational disease and to improve health and wellbeing in Australian workplaces.

It is designed to develop a wide range of skills in a group of post-doctoral Team Investigators to improve the link between research, policy and practice. This program will address several of the National Health Priorities such as asthma, cancer, mental health and musculoskeletal disorders.

Chief Investigators

• Prof Malcolm Sim, MonCOEH
• Prof Michael Abramson, Clinical Epidemiology Unit and Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
• A/Prof Lin Fritschi, Western Australian Institute for Medical Research
• A/Prof Tony LaMontagne, McCaughey Centre, VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, University of Melbourne

Team Investigators

• Dr Martine Dennekamp, MonCOEH
• Dr Ryan Hoy, MonCOEH
• Dr Alison Reid, School of Population Health, University of Western Australia
• Dr Donna Urquhart, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Mentors

• Dr Lesley Day, Monash University Accident Research Centre
• Dr Timothy Driscoll, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
• Dr Rosemary Nixon, OccDerm and Monash University Department of Medicine
• Prof Brian Priestly, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University