QAEHS is committed to providing Education and Professional Development opportunities that encompass all of the research themes. These opportunities contribute to building capacity to assess, examine and respond to environmental health challenges in a changing world.
The Master of Environmental Health Sciences (MEHS), commenced in first semester 2019. It is run out of the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland at Herston, ranked number 2 in Australia for public health and 19th in the world for environmental health sciences.
The MEHS program aims to prepare early and mid-career professionals and future leaders to build on the demonstrated strengths of multidisciplinary teams and perspectives for effectively addressing and managing complex environmental health challenges.
Examples of the types of roles a graduate of MEnvHSci may fill include carrying out scientific research, providing information and advice based on science, formulating or contributing to the development of policy, regulations and guidelines, and identifying hazards and assessing and managing risks to human health and safety, and approaches to communicating the risks and mitigation options for stakeholders.
Program Director
A/Prof Nick Osborne
Core Course Coordinators:
| Course | Course Code | Offered | Course Coordinator |
| Preventing Disease through Healthy Environments | PUBH7027 | Semester 2 | Dr Nina Lansbury & Dr Dung Phung |
| Introduction to Epidemiology | PUBH7600 | Semester 1 or 2 | A/Prof Lisa Hall |
| Rick Communication | COMU7111 | Semester 2 | Prof Kelly Fielding |
| Biological Hazards | ENVH7001 | Semester 1 | Dr Gilda Carvalho |
| Chemical Hazards | ENVH7002 | Semester 2 | Dr Jake O'Brien |
Find more information on the Master of Environmental Heath Sciences or Apply here.
In conjunction with Queensland Health, a number of professional development programs have been developed to assist with the ongoing education of Queensland Health staff members.
In the last five years this has included:
- Indigenous Environmental Health Workshop to explore mutual areas of research between QAEHS theme leaders, partners from Queensland Health, researchers from the Institute for Social Science Research and the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre and representatives from the UQ Poche Centre and the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health.
- Workshops on Environmental Health Risk Assessment and Communication to increase knowledge and awareness and provide insights into understanding the assessment of health risks posed by chemical and microbial contaminants in the environment.
- Statistics for Public Health workshop to demystify and explain common statistics used in public health.
- Videos explaining the many different components involved in wastewater-based epidemiology as a monitoring approach to assess trends in population chemical consumption, use and exposure, as well as a surveillance tool from SARS-CoV-2 during the current COVID-19 pandemic.