Critical Care Research

Monash University is an international leader in Critical Care Research. Critical Care Research focuses on improvements to patient care encompassing pre-hospital, emergency and trauma, ICU and anaesthesia. The Critical Care Division's areas of expertise include clinical medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics, data management, and health economics.


 

A/Prof Ben Beck is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Head of Sustainable Mobility and Safety Research in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (SPHPM) at Monash University.

Ben works at the intersection of transport, public health and climate change. He is an internationally renowned leader in active transport research, especially in relation to bike riding. He established and leads an interdisciplinary program of research that brings together experts in public health, urban and transport planning, engineering, complex systems science, behaviour change and road safety to advance the safety, accessibility and equity of active mobility. Ben’s program of research is underpinned by developing world-leading data systems, cutting-edge methods and data-driven solutions, and partnering with government, industry, not-for-profit organisations and the community to untap the potential of active transport to transform population and planetary health.

 

Dr Georgina Lau is a Research Fellow working within the Pre-hospital, Emergency and Trauma Research Unit in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.

Her research focuses on improving the prevention of injury events involving alcohol and other drugs. Through this work, she brings together researchers and clinicians from across the emergency care, injury prevention and alcohol and other drug sectors.

She was awarded a Westpac Future Leaders Scholarship in 2020 to support her research and is currently Chair of the Alcohol and Other Drug Subcommittee for the Australasian Injury Prevention Network.