Wei Zhang
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering
The Public Health Institute is influencing health service design and delivery. Our research interests include drugs and alcohol, violence, the environment and more. Find out about our research, the courses available within the School and career opportunities.
The Public Health Institute delivers the intelligence and evidence to inform public health policy and practice.
At the Public Health Institute we look into alchohol consumption and harm across a range of populations and environments. We take up original research and study established datasets to understand the impacts of alcohol on society.
The Public Health Institute provides the expertise to inform the delivery and development of interventions and services to those programmes that address food, physical activity, women's health, health of refugees and asylum seekers, mental health and employment.
Public Health Institute provides insight into drug use. We support evidence based drugs policy through epidemiology, monitoring, evidence review, intervention evalution and research.
The Public Health Institute investigates interventions with the aim of reducing tobacco use. We look at the relationship between smoking behaviours and demographics, income, parental smoking, leisure activities and alcohol consumption.
Sport and Exercise Sciences
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering
At the Public Health Institute we provide advice to policymakers in consideration of the relationship between the environment and public health. Projects include: the use of parks, climate change, economic benefits of green infrastructure and evaluation of green projects for the community.