Dr Deborah C. Glass

Senior Research Fellow

MA, Cert Ed. MSc, Dip Occ Hyg. PhD, FAIOH

Phone: +61 3 9903 0554

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Deborah Glass graduated in Natural Sciences at Cambridge University in 1974. She obtained a teaching qualification from Leicester University in 1975 and taught for 4 years. She did a Masters in Occupational Health and Hygiene in 1979/80 and then worked in industry as an occupational hygienist, carrying out a range of work including pharmaceutical, agrochemical and asbestos sampling, noise assessments, biological and surface sampling. She joined the Institute of Occupational Health, University of Birmingham in 1985 and became a Lecturer in Occupational Hygiene in 1989. In 2007 Deborah was made a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists.

Deborah came to Australia in mid 1995 and joined Health Watch, a prospective cohort study of workers in the petroleum industry in Australia, then based at Melbourne University. She completed a PhD with Deakin University based on this work in 1999. She joined Monash in 1998 and works in the field of exposure assessment for epidemiology. She has worked on a number of studies including a nested case control study of leukaemia in the petroleum industry, the Australian Gulf War Veterans' Health Study and a study of prostate cancer. Currently, Deborah continues to work on  Health Watch, which is now based at Monash, and the AUS-ALL,  the Australian study of causes of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children.