Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS)

The University of Queensland

Formerly known as National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology

QAEHS is multidisciplinary research centre with expertise in environmental health toxicology, microbiology and epidemiology.

Our research includes: environmental aspects of toxicology, human health epidemiology, microbiology, health risk assessment, health risk communication, identification and analysis of emerging environmental health risks, and state-of-the art monitoring and analytical techniques, methodologies and technologies for environmental hazards and exposures.

Website

https://qaehs.centre.uq.edu.au

Organisation type

• University Research Centre

Number of research staff

20-100 research staff

Address

20 Cornwall Street Woolloongabba QLD 4102

Strengths and capabilities

• Catchment and drinking water micropollutants
• Wastewater-based epidemiology, including measurement and interpretation of drug metabolites and other biomarkers
• Human biomonitoring, including measurement of chemical exposures
• Measurement of plastic particles and associated chemicals across environmental and human matrices
• Marine and inshore water quality monitoring, including pesticides and herbicides
• Environmental fate, transport, and persistence of fluorosurfactants, hydrocarbons, and other emerging contaminants
• Detection and monitoring of antimicrobial resistance, including antibiotic resistance genes in environmental systems
• Environmental microbiology, including bacterial–nanoparticle interactions
• Climate change and health research
• Indoor and outdoor air quality

Key science sectors

More information about the sectors this centre is involved in:

• Environment and nature
• Food and agriculture
• Health and medical
• Social sciences