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Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Infectious Diseases Epidemiology School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine www.monash.edu Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Overview Infectious diseases contribute a significant burden of disease to the population. Our unit maps the patterns of a broad range of infectious diseases, including travel-related infections, water-associated disease, hospital-acquired infections, notifiable communicable diseases, and influenza. Capabilities Training Development and conduct of clinical and epidemiological studies; Co-ordination of Doctor of Public Health, Master of Clinical Research Methods and Honours programmes; Analysis of clinical and public health surveillance data; Programme evaluation; Short courses in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology; Links to policy. Input into undergraduate and postgraduate courses; Application Supervision of doctoral and honours students. Risk assessment; Public health policy – contributions to national and international policy and regulation; Surveillance and vaccine effectiveness; Clinical aspects of infectious diseases, including disease prevention. Major Projects FluCAN (Influenza Complications Alert Network) – a national, hospital-based surveillance programme for severe influenza; ECHIDNA (Epidemiology and Community Health Impact of Infectious Diseases Notified in Australia) – a 20 year review of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System; Burden of gastrointestinal pathogens in Australia; Health issues related to water exposures – Experimental, questionnaire-based and modelling projects to assess health aspects of exposure to alternative water sources (recycled water, rainwater and greywater); Infection prevention and control – reassessing the risks and benefits of vancomycinresistant enterococcus control measures in an endemic setting, determining the epidemiology of infections in aged care facilities, new and emerging infections including Clostridium difficile infection, evaluating antibiotic stewardship activities in hospitals; Travel heath – a range of studies assessing knowledge and morbidity among international travellers; and Clinical infectious diseases – a diverse range of clinical studies, including antibiotic pharmacokinetics, influenza, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), sepsis and melioidosis, pneumonia, splenectomy. Contact Us Associate Professor Karin Leder Head, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit Tel: +61 03 9903 0577 Email: [email protected] Postal address: School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine The Alfred Centre 99 Commercial Road Melbourne VIC 3004 Australia www.med.monash.edu/epidemiology/infdis.html facebook.com/Monash.University twitter.com/MonashUni www.med.monash.edu/epidemiology/infdis.html Monash University reserves the right to alter information, procedures, fees and regulations contained in this document. Please check the Monash University website for updates (www.monash.edu). All information reflects prescriptions, policy and practice in force at time of publication. Published August 2012. MMS349008