Professor Geoff Solarsh - Head of School

Telephone: +61 3 5440 9012
Facsimile: +61 3 5440 9020
Email: geoff.solarsh@med.monash.edu.au

Monash University School of Rural Health
PO Box 666, Bendigo Victoria 3552
106 Wattle Street Bendigo Victoria

Principal Investigator – “A demographic platform for reproductive health research in a rural district of South Africa. Platform project of the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies and Reproductive Health” (1998-2001), funded by Welcome Trust. Total budget during this period US$ 1.5 million. This project has been funded for a further 5 years with a budget of $US 1.5 million per annum
Co-principal Investigator. International Maternal and Child Health Training Grant from the Fogarty International Centre, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland. US$ 1 million over 5 years (1999 – 2004)
Principal Investigator – “Developmental Disabilities in a time of AIDS”. 2-year planning grant funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA to determine the impact of the HIV/Aids epidemic on developmental disabilities in children 2-6 years in rural South Africa. US$ 200,000 over 2 years (2003-2005).

Solarsh, G.C. 2003 ‘Community Paediatrics and Community Child Health’, in Paediatrics and Child Health - a handbook for health professionals in the Third World ed H.M. Coovadia and D.F. Wittenberg, 5th edition. Oxford University Press. Cape Town.
Solarsh, G.C. and McKerrow, N. 2003 ‘Social Paediatrics’, in Paediatrics and Child Health - a handbook for health professionals in the Third World ed H.M. Coovadia and D.F. Wittenberg, 5th edition. Oxford University Press. Cape Town.

Ngom, P., Benzler, J., Hosegood, V.and Solarsh, G. 2002 ‘Core concepts of a DSS. in population and health in developing countries’, Population, Health and Survival at INDEPTH Sites, Ottawa. ICDRC 1: 7-16.
Solarsh, G., Benzler, J., Hosegood, V., Tanser, F., Vanneste, A. 2002 ‘Hlabisa DSS South Africa. In Population and Health in developing Countries’, Population, Health and Survival at INDEPTH Sites. Ottawa. ICDRC 1: 213-220.
Solarsh, G.C. and Goga, A. 2003 ‘Child Health. In South African Health Review’ Health Systems Trust and the Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation. Durban.
McLaren, P., Solarsh, G.C. and Saloojee, G. 2003 ‘Disability and Disablement. In South African Health Review’ Health Systems Trust and the Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation. Durban.
Solarsh, G.C. and Hofman, K. ‘Developmental Disabilities in sub-Saharan Africa’, in Morbidity and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa. Jamieson (ed) (in press)
Durkin, M., Hofman, K., Nelson, K., Scheffler, R. and Solarsh, G. ‘Learning and Developmental Disabilities’, in Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries 2nd Edition (in preparation)

Williams, R.L., Reid, S.J., Myeni, C., Pitt, L. and Solarsh, G. 1999 ‘Practical skills and valued community outcomes: the next step in community-based education’, Medical Education 33(10): 730-737.
Tanser, F., LeSueur, D., Solarsh, G. and Wilkinson, D. 2000 ‘HIV heterogeneity and proximity of homestead to roads in rural South Africa: an exploration using a geographical information system’, Tropical Medicine and International Health 5(1): 40-46.
Tanser, F., Hosegood, V., Benzler, J. and Solarsh, G. 2001 ‘New approaches to spatially analyse primary health care usage patterns in rural South Africa’, Tropical Medicine and International Health 6 (10): 826-838.
Bland, R.M., Rollins, N.C., Solarsh, G., Van den Broeck, J. and Coovadia, H.M. 2003 ‘Maternal Recall of exclusive breastfeeding duration’, Arch Dis Child 88(9): 778-783.