Professor Melissa Haswell
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Biography
Current Position at QUT (Commenced June 2016)- Discipline Lead of Health, Safety and Environment in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Health
- Course Coordinator, Post-Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety
- Course Coordinator, Master of Health, Safety and Environment
- Researcher in Environmental Health and Aboriginal Health
- 1987 Ph.D. (Infectious Disease Epidemiology) Imperial College of Science and Technology,University of London, UK. (Professor RM Anderson, supervisor)
- 1982 M.Sc. (Bacteriology and Immunology), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.(Professor Lindsay Hutt-Fletcher, supervisor)
- 1980 B.A. (Biology), Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, USA.
- 2011 Trauma and Resilience – Theory and Practice from the Israeli Experience, Hebrew University
- 2008 Certificate III Family Well Being Empowerment Program, Four Stages plus FacilitatorTraining, Cairns TAFE and James Cook University
- 2003 Mental Health Outcomes Training, Queensland Health
- 1995 National Short Course Environmental Health: Assessing and Managing Risk, FlindersUniversity, Adelaide University and SA Health Commission
Personal details
Positions
- Professor
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work- Kelvin Grove Q Block Membership
Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation (IHBI),
IHBI Health Projects - Kelvin Grove Q Block Membership
Discipline
Public Health and Health Services
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of London)
Professional memberships and associations
- International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (Member of the Scientific Committee for ISEE Conference 2017);
- International Association for the Prevention of Suicide
- Climate and Health Alliance
- Public Health Association Australia (Ecology and Environment Special Interest Group & Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Special Interest Group)
- Doctors for the Environment Australia (Honorary Member)
- Protect Sydney’s Water Alliance
Teaching
Recent and Current Unit Coordination and Delivery at QUT
- PUN620 Concepts of Environmental Health
- PUN015 Environmental Management and Sustainability
- PUN617 Health, Safety and Environment Leadership and Management
- PUP415 Occupational Health
Awards
- CAPHIA (Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australiasia) Award for Excellence in Public Health Teaching (2018)
- UNSW Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence for Programs that Enhance Learning; Team Award with Muru Marri (with Lisa Jackson Pulver, Megan Williams, Sally Fitzpatrick) (2014)
- Post-Graduate Supervision Award, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW (2013)
Past Teaching Experience
- Established and led a University of Queensland Torres Strait Island micro-campus, recruited and managed academic affairs for four student cohorts leading to over 20 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander graduates from Far North Queensland
- Delivered 14 different undergraduate courses within the Bachelor of Applied Health Science (Indigenous Primary Health Care) degree; University of Queensland Brisbane and Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area campuses
- Developed and delivered four postgraduate electives in the Masters of Public Health (University of Queensland and University of New South Wales) in Environmental Health (6 times); Indigenous Health and Wellbeing across the Lifespan (5 times); Mental Health Promotion (twice); Psychosocial Aspects of Traumatic Loss (twice)
Selected publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Melissa, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).