Taiwan partnership to combat climate change
Centre for Environment and Population Health
Griffith University recently welcomed a delegation from Taiwan to celebrate the Health Groups partnership with the Taiwan Health Promotion Administration (HPA). Professor Analise O’Donovan, Dean (Academic), and Professor Cordia Chu, Director of the Centre for Environment and Population Health, hosted the delegation at the Nathan campus to celebrate the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding […]
Outstanding Griffith research excellence honoured
Architecture
Leading Griffith University researchers have been honoured at the Vice Chancellor’s Research Excellence Awards held at Nathan campus.
Centre for Environment and Population Health
International hub set to fight world health issues
An international hub bringing together researchers fighting current world issues like climate change and infectious disease outbreaks has opened at Griffith.
Centre for Environment and Population Health
Witoelar Dialogue responds to the region’s climate change challenges
The two-day event was part of the Collaborative Australia-Indonesia Program on Sustainable Development and Climate Change (CAIPSDCC).
Arts Education Law
Academics deliver disaster training in Mongolia
Two Griffith academics are in Mongolia delivering training to multi-casualty and disaster training to more than 60 doctors and nurses across the province.
Centre for Environment and Population Health
Mater Research planning for largest cohort study in Queensland
Mater Research is planning the largest group cohort study in the state since the 1980s, aiming to follow 10 000 Queensland families over three decades, in collaboration with Griffith.
Architecture, construction and planning
Public health workers in the spotlight in new Griffith film
A uniquely Queensland story of strong disaster management in the context of climate change is the focus of a new Griffith University produced film.
Centre for Environment and Population Health
Griffith study finds stress can be contagious
The old adage of not bringing your work troubles home with you has even more significance according to a new study by a leading Griffith researcher.
Centre for Environment and Population Health
Wearable devices to remotely manage patient chronic conditions
Wearable devices to remotely manage patient chronic conditions are set to become available for the medical profession as part of an Australian first.
Centre for Environment and Population Health
Griffith to train medical students on the Sunshine Coast
Griffith University continues to play a major role in shaping the medical profession of tomorrow with confirmation that it will train medical students at the newly-opened Sunshine Coast University Hospital. The announcement was made today after the Federal Government formalised its commitment to provide 50 Commonwealth supported places for local medical students at the Hospital from […]
Centre for Environment and Population Health
Concerns rise over potential adverse health effects of 5G technology
Concern over the potential long-term adverse health effects associated with new 5G mobile phone technology remains according to one of the world’s leading figures on the impact of radio frequency emissions “The health effect issue of 5G is potentially very controversial as the communications industry is massive and 5G technology will be quite pervasive but […]
Centre for Environment and Population Health
Griffith University collaborations with the Healthy China project
Griffith’s Centre for Environment and Population Health (CEPH) hosted a noteworthy visit by the Chinese Center for Health Education (CCHE) on 28-30 June 2017. The visit, hosted by Professor Cordia Chu AM, Director CEPH, was an important step for Griffith University to become involved in Healthy China, a nationwide Chinese project central to the Chinese […]
Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention
Griffith psychiatrist honoured with prestigious award
Providing the first community-based Post Traumatic Stress Disorder treatment for war veterans is just one of the achievements of Professor David Crompton, the latest recipient of the Margaret Tobin Award.
Architecture
A celebration of remarkable science, engineering and technology
Each year the Pro Vice Chancellor (Sciences) recognises the remarkable achievements of the group’s alumni, academic and professional staff. This year the group also applauded its industry partners and high schools that have contributed to its achievement. The 2016 Griffith Sciences Awards were held at the Southbank Campus’s Webb Centre and featured school themed test tube cocktails. […]
Centre for Clean Environment and Energy
Research targets conflict over wind farming and renewable energy in Korea
Griffith University is undertaking a major international project to help address community conflict and disruption over wind farms and their implementation in Korea.
Centre for Clean Environment and Energy
Engineering students work on Vanuatu cyclone-proof housing
Griffith University engineering students have been helping rebuild a cyclone-devastated area of Vanuatu as part of a program designed to embed in them in real world construction. Griffith’s fourth-year civil engineering students completing their final year industry affiliates program (IAP) recently travelled to an area devastated by Cyclone Pam in 2015. It is part of […]
Architecture, construction and planning
Tahlia’s double degree already taking her places – like Heron Island
A fairytale and university study may seem an unusual pairing but for Griffith student Tahlia Rossi a Heron Island field trip was just that.
Architecture, construction and planning
Can you teach a koala new tricks?
Griffith University researchers have found that koalas are more clever than they thought them to be in a world-first study that tracked the Australian animal more comprehensively than ever before in suburban Brisbane. The Environmental Futures Research Institute team, made up of Cathryn Dexter, Justin Scott and Professor Darryl Jones, at Griffith verified 130 crossings […]