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Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences

Locality: Woolloongabba

Phone: +61 7 3443 2445

Address: 20 Cornwall Street 4102 Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.qaehs.centre.uq.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Micro and nano plastics are small pieces of plastic that are known to pollute the environment but little is known about human exposure. Researchers from the Que...ensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS) are working on developing methods to quantify human exposure via air, food and water. Read more in Game Changers >> http://bit.ly/2TpAGUl See more

25.01.2022 Well, this has been a long time in the making but we are excited to announce that our newly developed method for the identification and quantification of selected plastics in biosolids has just been published! Big congratulations to QAEHS PhD student Elvis Okoffo who lead this study! #BoyFromGhana

23.01.2022 Thought we should share really nice article about email etiquette and tips for dealing with some of the issues with email https://www.sciencemag.org//scientist-s-guide-email-etique

22.01.2022 Dr Jake OBrien from QAEHS was lucky enough to record a podcast with the one and only Dr Karl and Ben and Guy from Arris Pty Ltd! Should be out in a few months. Did someone say Turn the shirts down!?

21.01.2022 All research and no play would make QAEHS a .... well we dont actually know! Great to see the QAEHS/Qld Health rivalry is still strong!

21.01.2022 Researchers from The University of Queensland and Australia’s national science agency CSIRO have successfully demonstrated the presence of SARS-CoV2, the virus which leads to the disease COVID-19, in Australian untreated wastewater (sewage)

21.01.2022 https://qaehs.centre.uq.edu.au//prof-jochen-mueller-awarde

20.01.2022 Do you have a background in analytical chemistry and an interest in identifying chemicals which cause antimicrobial resistance? Why not consider applying for a joint UQ-Exeter PhD project where you get to work on this at both QAEHS and Exeter? https://graduate-school.uq.edu.au/quex

20.01.2022 With online study options and courses from every Faculty at UQ, our new environmental health sciences postgraduate degrees allow you to build a program to suit your needs.

20.01.2022 At QAEHS we have been conducting microplastic research for the last couple of years and one of the issues we struggle with is reducing plastic contamination in the lab. Heres an article about how we as scientists can reduce the amount of single use plastics used in the lab. Thanks to Dr Thai for sharing https://cen.acs.org//laboratories-move-away-single-/97/i43

19.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com//a.552529058092/2448421768503478 QAEHS scientists are working with Seqwater in the application of monitoring tools for environmental pollutants, helping to safeguard South East Queensland waterways

18.01.2022 Come visit the QAEHS Microplastic Display at the World Science Festival Brisbane from 2:30pm to 4:30pm today and tomorrow

18.01.2022 QAEHS currently has three PhD positions available. See the QAEHS website for more information: https://qaehs.centre.uq.edu.au/qaehs-phd-positions-available

18.01.2022 On Wednesday 26th of September (World Environmental Health Day) from 4.30pm to 6.30pm, QAEHS will be hosting a public seminar on our current research. Following the seminar please join us to celebrate the launch of UQs new suite of Environmental Health Sciences postgraduate programs. This will provide a rare professional development and networking opportunity, followed by drinks and canaps. Register your attendance here! https://survey.its.uq.edu.au/checkbox/EHS.aspx

17.01.2022 A new PhD opportunity available now - "Novel sampling and analytical strategies to tackle chemicals of emerging concern in humans and the environment". https://qaehs.centre.uq.edu.au/qaehs-phd-positions-available

16.01.2022 #PFAS Yep, we have a water test for that. "Forever" chemicals are everywhere. So are we. All the way down under working with Jochen Mueller and Sarit Kaserzon at Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences. Rory and Joe, looking great! #knowyourwater

16.01.2022 Its not everyday you have two QAEHS students graduate with a PhD! Congratulations Chang and Jack!

15.01.2022 QAEHS is about to get more Active in the Passive Sampling space! Congratulations to QAEHS Research Fellow Dr Sarit Kaserzon and QAEHS Director Professor Kevin Thomas for their successful ARC Linkage application which will develop the next generation of passive samples for aquatic pollutants! https://www.uq.edu.au//millions-arc-funding-successful-uq-

13.01.2022 The UQ School of Pharmacy - Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS) 3MT Competition was held this week Excellent speakers undertaking important and fascinating research! Well done to everyone who participated!

12.01.2022 Congratulations Jochen Mueller, Jennifer Braeunig and Kevin Thomas our three QAEHS researchers who were successful in the ARC Special Research Initiatives PFAS remediation Research Program. They will share in $2.7 million awarded to three projects that aim to develop innovative technologies to remediate PFAS (per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) contaminated media. For more information go to: https://rms.arc.gov.au//a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aa/198

11.01.2022 Check out QAEHS PhD student Francisca Ribeiro talking about her microplastics research in the UQ 3MT 2018 competition

11.01.2022 Congratulations to all of the presenters who took part in the QAEHS/PACE 3MT competition today! You were all absolutely outstanding! Big shout out to Francisca from QAEHS for picking up the Peoples Choice Award and to Jack and Phil who picked up prizes for Best Publication Authored by a QAEHS HDR Student in 2018

11.01.2022 A PhD position is available. The project is on Exploring strategies to tackle marine plastics pollution. Please see the QAEHS website for more information.

11.01.2022 QAEHS researchers in conjunction with UniSA have once again flushed out more data on Australias drug consumption with the ACIC this morning releasing the 7th report of the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program https://www.acic.gov.au///files/2019/06/nwdmp7_140619.pdf

09.01.2022 QAEHS Director Professor Kevin Thomas made the news

07.01.2022 Well done to QAEHS PhD student Fahad Ahmed for this excellent publication in STOTEN! Great to see so many papers starting to come out from the SewAus project

06.01.2022 Heres a little view point published by QAEHS researchers, Dr Jake OBrien, Assoc Prof Coral Gartner, Prof Kevin Thomas and Prof Wayne Hall, in MJA InSight+ https://insightplus.mja.com.au//wastewater-based-epidemio/

06.01.2022 Did you know that March 8th is International Womens Day? To celebrate, have a read of QAEHS Research Fellow - Dr Sarit Kaserzons story in Sciexs International Womens Day 2019 - Sharing Sciex Customer Success Stories: https://img04.en25.com//%7B60c5a007-87f3-415e-8fbf-4fb9868 or check out the research profiles of other female researchers at QAEHS doing great things: https://qaehs.centre.uq.edu.au/our-people

05.01.2022 Congratulations to Dr Kaserzon and Prof Mueller!

04.01.2022 Today the QAEHS QuEX Institute PhD students presented at the 2019 QuEX Symposium. Shout out to Steve and Francisca for their excellent presentations!

04.01.2022 At QAEHS we have a Seminar Series where invited speakers come along and present a seminar on something that is relevant to the QAEHS community. This morning we were lucky enough to have Dr Rizsa Albarracin, a Senior Environmental Health Scientist at Queensland Health, come and present on how she balances her job with her charity work with the overall goal of improving public health outcomes. For those of you interested, please have a look at her not-for-profit organisation Shepherds Arms Foundation https://shepherdsarms.org.nz/

03.01.2022 Theme leader at QAEHS, Dr Coral Gartner, discusses the case for lifting bans on nicotine vaping products with ABC News. Corals main research interest is in evaluating strategies to reduce the harm from tobacco use. This includes the use of e-cigarettes as an aid to quit smoking. For more information on Corals work, go to https://qaehs.centre.uq.edu.au/profile/619/coral-gartner.

02.01.2022 A PhD position is available. The project is on 'Exploring strategies to tackle marine plastics pollution'. Please see the QAEHS website for more information.

02.01.2022 Congratulations to Elvis, Ben, Jake and Stacey!

01.01.2022 Researchers from The University of Queensland and Australias national science agency CSIRO have successfully demonstrated the presence of SARS-CoV2, the virus which leads to the disease COVID-19, in Australian untreated wastewater (sewage)

01.01.2022 QAEHS researcher Dr Phong Thai will be guest editing a special issue on Wastewater-Based Epidemiology in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Both original research papers as well as systematic reviews are welcome. https://www.mdpi.com//speci/Wastewater_based_Epidemiology

01.01.2022 QAEHS AMC Chair elected to Australian Academy of Science https://qaehs.centre.uq.edu.au//qaehs-amc-chair-elected-au

01.01.2022 QAEHS is offering up to six PhD scholarships in the 2018 round of the QAEHS PhD Scholarship Scheme. A maximum of three domestic and three international scholarships will be awarded to start at UQ in research quarter 2 2019 (1 April 2019). The scholarships will be for three years, with possible extension to four years. Scholarships are available for 16 projects across the eight QAEHS research themes. Applicants should select their preferred project in their on-line application. Details of the QAEHS supervisory teams and the available projects can be accessed via the project links (by research theme) below. https://qaehs.centre.uq.edu.au/phd-scholarships