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Principal Areas of Research by School and Academic Unit

 

School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine

Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine

Contact: Professor John McNeil
Tel: +61 3 9903 0565

URL: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/research/

Key words: All aspects of public health research and preventative medicine including chronic disease epidemiology (cardiovascular, respiratory and rheumatic diseases); clinical pharmacology; the clinical evaluation of drugs including physiological studies humans, drug trials and drug safety studies; toxicology; clinical epidemiology and biostatistical methods (including diagnostic tests, clinical measurement and systematic reviews); infectious diseases neuro-epidemiology: epidemiological modelling; health services delivery; health economics and cost-effectiveness studies; health services research; environmental health; including health risk assessment; evidence based medicine, preventative medicine and occupational health; health promotion; health policy development; quality assessment and outcomes in healthcare.

Lay terms: Cardiovascular disease, heart disease; respiratory disease; drug trials; drug safety; infectious diseases; health services; occupational health.

Forensic Medicine

Contact: Professor Stephen Cordner
Tel: +61 3 9684 4301

URL: http://www.vifp.monash.edu.au/pubs/research/index.html

Key words: All aspects of the interface between law and medicine including forensic pathology; clinical forensic medicine; forensic toxicology; molecular biology and tissue banking; intravenous drug abuse; death and injury and prevention; adverse events in hospital practice; patterns of injury; sexual assault; traumatic neuropathology; ageing of injuries; traffic medicine including drugs and driving; post mortem drug redistribution; wound ballistics; SIDS; tissue banking including allograft incorporation and tissue engineering.

Lay terms: Forensic pathology; forensic medicine; death; injury; SIDS.

Monash Institute of Health Services Research

Contact: Associate Professor Damien Jolley
Tel: +61 3 9594 7507

URL: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/healthservices/

Key words: Health technology assessment; implementation research; clinical decision making and decision support systems; technology transfer; systems analysis; clinical trials and evidence synthesis; complementary medicine; evaluation of the impact of evidence based practice in clinical environments; evidence based health promotion; consumers participation in health; provision of reliable information to consumers of health care; methodology and impact of systemic reviews of research evidence; cost effectiveness and economic modelling of health care interventions; internet, networking and telecommunications in health; educational technology; health databases; evaluation of information technology in general practice, health informatics via distance education; models of electronic support for clinical decision making; knowledge management.

Lay terms: Health care systems; health technology; medical information management.