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 and in 2008 became a member of the International Advisory Board of the Annals of Occupational Hygiene

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, community-based case-control studies of prostate cancer and of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children.  Currently, Deborah continues to work on Health Watch, which is now based at Monash University, recruitment to the cohort will be reopened in 2009.  She is also involved in an international collaboration combining and updating the UK, Canadian and Australian petroleum industry lympho-haematopoetic cancer case-control studies.  She is a CI on 3 NHMRC grants: investigating Australians’ understanding of privacy in relation to epidemiology, the effect of bushfires on cardiac events, and the effect of occupational chronodisruption on risk of breast cancer.  She has an interest in firefighters’ health being a CI for Phase of a study to set up an Australasian Firelighters’ cohort and for an investigation of the cancer incidence among Queensland firefighters.