Monash University Veteran Health and Wellbeing Research Program

Our Monash Veteran Health and Wellbeing Research Program has completed numerous large and impactful studies that have improved outcomes for veterans who’ve provided invaluable service to our country. Our core team includes some of the nation’s most experience veteran health researchers; and by leveraging our internal partners within Monash University, we have unparalleled capacity to conduct research across the entire spectrum of veteran health and wellbeing issues.

See our staff page here.

Together with our collaborators, the Program holds significant expertise across a range of subject areas relevant to the veterans’ health and wellbeing field. These include:

  • Occupational and environmental health including exposures and toxicology
  • Public health
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Musculoskeletal disorders
  • Injury prevention
  • Women’s health and men’s health
  • Communicable and non-communicable diseases
  • Chronic diseases and ageing
  • Workers’ compensation schemes
  • Health services research and quality and safety of healthcare
  • Social determinants of health

We also have capacity across research methodologies and program evaluation including:

  • Epidemiology and biostatistics, for the robust design and analysis of large datasets
  • Study design and research methodology including cohort and cross-sectional studies
  • Data linkage and data mining of existing health, compensation, cancer and mortality datasets, to incorporate information available across numerous repositories
  • Database management
  • Workplace wellbeing program development and assessment
  • Qualitative methods, to sensitively and rigorously gather and incorporate the views, opinions and lived experiences of veterans
  • Evidence reviews including rapid evidence assessment reviews and systematic reviews and meta-analyses
  • Epidemiological modelling to project the burden of disease and effectiveness of control strategies
  • Capacity development through PhD, Masters and Honours research and health professional education and training
  • Research governance and ethics and project management

We have built up expertise in the veteran health research field, having undertaken several major epidemiological health studies, including:

Our collaborative health research studies include:

  • Transition and Wellbeing Research Programme and the
  • Australian Peacekeepers Health Study.

We have also worked on a number of evidence synthesis and review projects, including:

  • The association between chronic pain and suicidal ideation and behaviour in military and veteran populations
  • Effects of jet fuel and solvent exposure on human reproductive outcomes
  • United States and Australian Joint Research Effort – Comparative Literature Review
  • Psychological disorders, multisymptom disorder and chronic fatigue syndrome in Gulf War, Iraq War and Afghanistan veterans

You can see a list of our publications and reports here.