AI and Digital Health

AI and Digital Health

We’re driving digital innovation to transform healthcare delivery, bringing together our substantial data assets and research expertise with cutting-edge artificial intelligence and automation technologies to develop tools that radically enhance decision-making, personalise care, and improve health system efficiency.

We’re also helping to navigate the complexity of the digital health future, providing expert insights and thought leadership to shape best practice on key issues such as privacy and security, governance, ethical standards, safety, equity and trust.

Our focus areas

Research Units

Climate, Air Quality Research

We’re using AI to enhance our ability to meet the health challenges posed by the climate emergency, including expanding and improving air quality monitoring by integrating AI and traffic camera images.

Head of Unit

Professor Yuming Guo

Department of Forensic Medicine

Evaluating the use of nascent digital, imaging and machine learning technologies across forensic activities including identification of deceased people and crime suspects, non-invasive autopsies, and the prevention of online grooming.

Head of Department

Professor Richard Bassed

Health Economics

With our remit to build evidence around the most efficient allocation of constrained resources, the role of telehealth in servicing rural and regional Australians is a priority research area for our team.

Head of Unit

Professor Cathy Mihalopoulos

Pharmacoepidemiology

We apply predictive analytics, machine learning and trajectory modelling to real‑world datasets – developing digital decision‑support tools and clinical solutions that enhance medicine safety, adherence and evidence‑based decision‑making within routine digital health systems.

Head of Research Group

Dr Stella Talic

Pre-hospital, Emergency and Trauma Research

We advance care through our expertise in the application of AI and machine learning techniques to improve identification and stratification of complex bone fractures, facilitating faster, better treatment for trauma patients.

Head of Unit

Professor Belinda Gabbe

Transfusion Research

We investigate how wearable technologies could remotely monitor relevant health markers among patients, to safely enable more transfusion care outside of hospital, improving patient convenience and autonomy.

Head of Unit

Professor Erica Wood AO

Centres and major initiatives

Australian Centre of Excellence in Melanoma Imaging and Diagnosis (ACEMID)

We’re home to the Victorian hub of this national network of cutting-edge imaging technology, created to transform melanoma outcomes. Our research uses AI to drive earlier, standardised detection, and equitable access for regional Australians.

Our courses

Visit our Professional Education page for a list of upcoming short course dates, including:

Our impact in action

Monash academics recognised at Shaping Australia Awards for advancing Deaf and Deafblind communication access and revolutionising melanoma screening

Monash University’s leadership across linguistics and public health have received national recognition at the Shaping Australia Awards.
Public Health and Preventive Medicine 26 February, 2026

Critical care, climate health and stronger health services to be the focus of Investigator Grant successes

Improvements to acute and critical care medicine, tackling the health impacts of climate change, and driving more equitable, sustainable health services will be a major focus for researchers in our School who recently secured eight Investigator
Public Health and Preventive Medicine 24 February, 2025

MRFF success supports better mental health for rural Australians

Health economists within the Monash School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine will lead a new MRFF-funded project to bridge an equity gap in health service delivery to rural and regional Australians, by investigating successful models of
Public Health and Preventive Medicine 2 October, 2024

Navigating the digital world as PhD students

As the digital landscape continues to evolve, more researchers are turning to social media to share their work, connect with a broader audience, and foster professional growth.
Education 16 September, 2024

Alarming results from world first study of two decades of global smoke pollution

The world's first study of the increase in pollution from landscape fires across the globe over the past two decades reveals that over 2 billion people are exposed to at least one day of potentially health-impacting environmental hazard annually
Public Health and Preventive Medicine 22 September, 2023
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