Professor Melissa Haswell
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Melissa Haswell acknowledges the Turrbal, Jagera and Jinibara people as the Traditional Owners of the unceeded Lands upon which she lives and conducts her work.
Biography
Current Position at QUT (Commenced June 2016; currently 0.2 FTE)- Former Discipline Lead of Health, Safety and Environment in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Health
- Former Course Coordinator, Post-Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety and Master of Health, Safety and Environment
- Researcher in Climate Change Adaptation, Empowerment and Wellbeing, 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 Facilitator Training, Cairns TAFE and James Cook University
- 2003 Mental Health Outcomes Training, Queensland Health
- 1995 National Short Course Environmental Health: Assessing and Managing Risk, Flinders University, Adelaide University and SA Health Commission
Personal details
Positions
- Professor
Faculty of Health,
School of Public Health & Social Work
Research field
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
Previous 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
- QUT Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence; Faculty of Health Cultural Safety and Indigenous Issues School Champion, Inclusive and Diversity Excellence (2021)
- 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)
Other Teaching Experience
- Academic Lead for the Service Learning in Indigenous Communities unit of study delivered by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services) Portfolio at the University of Sydney (2020-present)
- 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 (1998-2002)
- 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 (1996-1998)
- 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; Psychosocial Aspects of Traumatic Loss (2002-2016)
Experience
Melissa and collaborators from University of Sydney and University of Sydney, together with multiple Torres Strait governance organisations, have just completed a Sector Adaptation Planning project (SAP+) entitled, Sharing for Solutions: Comprehensive Community-Based Climate Change Health and Wellbeing Impact Assessment to enhance community health service and cross-sectional engagement and planning in the Torres Strait Islands funded by the Department of Environment and Science (June 2022).
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Melissa, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).