Current MonCOEH Research Projects

Occupational cohort studies

• Firefighters’ Health Study
• Nurses, as part of CUPID (CUltural and Psychosocial Influences on Disability) - Australian arm
• Health Watch study of petroleum workers
• Healthwise study of aluminium industry workers
• Orchardists
• Asbestos cement workers
• Lead workers
• WorkHealth Reseach and Evaluation Project

Mobile phone studies

• Do mobile phones affect cognitive development in children?
• INTEROCC - Occupational Exposure and Brain Cancer 
• MOBI-KIDS

Occupational disease surveillance

• Surveillance of Australian Workplace Based Respiratory Events (SABRE)

Environmental health studies

• Air pollution and out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Melbourne  
• ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia) study 
• Cardiac effects of 2006/2007 bushfire air pollution in Melbourne
• Causes of chronic obstructive lung diseases in older people 
• Follow up of the Port Pirie lead exposed children
• MACS Air Pollution Study (MAP Study)
• Bushfire smoke exposure and effects on health 

Veteran health studies

• Australian Gulf War Veterans' Health Study 2003 
• Study of veterans to the Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO)
• Australian Gulf War Veterans' Heatlh Study 2011 Follow Up

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Other research studies

• NHMRC Public Health Capacity Building Grant 
• Occupational risk factors for prostate cancer 
• Leukaemia and benzene exposure - Pooled analysis of three case control studies 
• What do Australians think about privacy and participation in epidemiological research?     
• Farm injury risk in males (FIRM) study
• OHS aspects of Occupational Light Vehicle injury 

Capacity Building

• NHMRC Public Health Capacity Building Grant 

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PhD Scholarship Opportunities

Australian Firefighters Health Study

The Australian Firefighters’ Health Study aims to assess the mortality and cancer incidence of career and volunteer firefighters.  There is evidence that firefighters are more likely than the general population to contract cancer.  A PhD research program will be developed within the study based on the candidate’s own background and research interests.  A major component of the study will be data linkage and within cohort comparisons of risk based on exposure metrics.  These metrics of exposure will be developed based on prospectively collected data, information from firefighter agencies and firefighters and the literature.  Other areas of research include how to address confounding exposures such as smoking, how to account for other occupations among the volunteer firefighters and consideration of the Healthy Worker Effect including selection bias in the recruitment of career firefighters. 

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Work and Health

A PhD research program, broadly based on understanding the relationships between working conditions and health-related outcomes, will be developed based on the candidate’s own background and research interests.  Specific areas of interest may include, but are not limited to, research related to work injury in Victoria or return to work after work injury or illness using administrative workers’ compensation data.  Other investigations focused on the relationship between working conditions/exposures and health-related outcomes using secondary data (either from labour market and health interviews or administrative data) would also be suitable. 

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