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Public Health and Preventive Medicine

The School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine is at the forefront of healthcare improvement research and teaching, underpinned by expertise in large scale clinical data-management, epidemiological studies and biostatistics.

We're part of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.

About the School

We're one of Asia Pacific's largest providers of education and research across a broad range of public health specialty areas.

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Our research

From advancing health information technology to identifying cost-effective treatments, our research is improving the quality and safety of healthcare.

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Our teaching staff, whether they're tutors or guest lecturers, are recognised as thought leaders in public health research and education.

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Divisions and Units

We bring together medical and healthcare experts from a cross-section of specialisations.

Monash clinical registries

We are Australia’s largest manager of clinical registries, standardised data sets from patients around Australia that help monitor variance in healthcare.

COVID-19 response and research

Since the pandemic began we've addressed the challenges presented by COVID-19. Read about our work in this space here.

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Location
Monash University
553 St Kilda Road
Melbourne VIC 3004

General enquiries
T: +61 3 9903 0444
E: sphpm@monash.edu

Media enquiries
T: +61 3 9903 4840
E: media@monash.edu

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Rapid DNA technology set to speed up disaster victim identification

Identifying victims accurately and quickly is important for families not just for emotional closure, but to help them navigate a complex web of urgent legal and administrative tasks that may free up access to badly needed finances and support.
Public Health and Preventive Medicine

The third wave of COVID-19 delivers the highest mortality risk in Australian ICUs

According to a new study led by Monash University, of those admitted to the ICU with COVID-19, after accounting for age and how sick patients were, the third wave of the disease in Australia was associated with the highest risk of dying in hospital,
Public Health and Preventive Medicine

Guilt, shame and stigma – how patients who smoke experience healthcare

A new study from Monash University has looked at how current and ex-smokers living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), other chronic illnesses, or those with no chronic conditions, experience care from their general practitioner (GP)
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