Public Health

Studies of, or related to, water that assist maintaining or developing public health and well-being.

Research topic "Public Health" is further divided into following sections:

• Contamination, Disease, Water Health
• Use and Management

Involved research staff

• Godwin Ayoko - Faculty of Science / Physical and Chemical Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 1206 fax: 07 3138 1804 e-mail: g.ayoko@qut.edu.au
• Richard Brown - Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering / Engineering Systems
  telephone: 07 3138 5157 fax: 07 3138 1516 e-mail: richard.brown@qut.edu.au
• Julie Davis - Faculty of Education / Early Childhood
  telephone: 07 3138 3808 fax: 07 3138 3989 e-mail: j.davis@qut.edu.au
• Les Dawes - Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering / Urban Development
  telephone: 07 3138 2776 fax: 07 3138 1170 e-mail: l.dawes@qut.edu.au
• Ray Frost - Faculty of Science / Physical and Chemical Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 2407 mobile: 0414 84 2407 fax: 07 3138 1804 e-mail: r.frost@qut.edu.au
• Megan Gibson - Faculty of Education / Early Childhood
  telephone: 07 3138 8092 fax: 07 3138 3989 e-mail: ml.gibson@qut.edu.au
• Ashantha Goonetilleke - Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering / Urban Development
  telephone: 07 3138 1539 fax: 07 3138 1170 e-mail: a.goonetilleke@qut.edu.au
• Megan Hargreaves - Faculty of Science / Life Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 2244 mobile: 0409 069 963 fax: 07 3138 8388 e-mail: m.hargreaves@qut.edu.au
• Mike Hefferan - Faculty of Research / Institute for Sustainable Resources
  telephone: 3138 9283 mobile: 0414 014 241 fax: 3138 4438 e-mail: m.hefferan@qut.edu.au
• Flavia Huygens - Faculty of Science / Life Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 2576 mobile: 0403 481 612 fax: 07 3138 1534 e-mail: f.huygens@qut.edu.au
• Serge Kokot - Faculty of Science / Physical and Chemical Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 2472 fax: 07 3138 1804 e-mail: s.kokot@qut.edu.au
• Kerrie Mengersen - Faculty of Science / Mathematical Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 2063 fax: 07 3138 2310 e-mail: k.mengersen@qut.edu.au
• Habib Yezdani - Faculty of Science / Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 4880 mobile: 0401 657 179 fax: 07 3138 4878 e-mail: h.yezdani@qut.edu.au

Related research projects

• Survey and analysis of the presence of atypical Mycobacteria in water and aerosols in domestic environments. Establishing a possible link with clinical cases of Mycobacterial disease
  - The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation Grant and Gallipoli Foundation grant
  project participants: Megan Hargreaves
   
• Rivers, the major sources of water for low-income people living in remote rural villages in Central Kalimantan (CK)
  - Expertise of the collaborating organisations (QUT; Palangkaraya Health Polytechnic, CK; and the Provincial Health Office, CK)
  project participants: Mike Hefferan
   

Publications

• Carmoday, O; Frost, R.; Yunfei, X; Kokot, S.: Adsorption of hydrocarbons on organo-clays- implications for oil spill remediation - in print, JCIS, 2006
• Carroll, S; Goonetilleke, A.; Hargreaves, M.: Assessment of environmental and public health risk form on-site treatment of wastewater - In: On-site Wastewater Treatment X: Proceedings of the Tenth National Symposium on Individual and Small Community Sewage Systems. ASAE, Sacramento, California, USA. pp. 368-376, 2004
• Vari, K; Tamate, J; Ayoko, G.; Singh, K: Assessment of Pollutant load of Some Industrial Wastewater in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea - In Chitrakar Ramesh ed., Proc. Int. Semin. Water Environ. Nepal Chemical Society, Kathmandu, Nepal. pp 126-130; Chemical Abstract 125:307920, 1994
• Carroll, S; Goonetilleke, A.; Thomas, E; Hargreaves, M.; Frost, R.; Dawes, L.: Integrated Risk Framework for Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems - Environmental Management, 38(2): p. 286-303, 2006.
• Hu, W.; Mengersen, K.; Oldenburg, B.; Dale, P.; Tong, S.L.: Mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) and the transmission of Ross River virus in Brisbane, Australia - J Med Entomol, 43 (2), 375-381, 2006
• Adebajo, M.O.; Frost, R.; Kloprogge, J.T.; Carmody, O; Kokot, S.: Porous Materials for Oil Spill Cleanup: A Review of Synthesis and Absorbing Properties - J. Porous Materials,10, 159-170, 2003
• Hu, W.; Mengersen, K.; Oldenburg, B.; Tong, S.L.: Rainfall, Mosquito Density and the Transmission of Ross River Virus: A Time Series Forecasting Model - Ecological Modelling, in press, 2006
• Hu, W.; Mengersen, K.; Tong, S.L.; Oldenburg, B.; Dale, P.: Spatial and temporal patterns of Ross River virus in Brisbane, Australia - Arbovirus Research in Australia 9,128-36, 2005
• Dawes, L.; Goonetilleke, A.: Using multivariate analysis to predict the behaviour of soils under effluent irrigation - Water Air and Soil Pollution, 172: 109-127, 2006
• Dawes, L.; Goonetilleke, A.: Using undisturbed columns to predict long term behaviour of effluent irrigated soils under field conditions - Australian Journal of Soil Research, 44(7): In Press, 2006
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