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Menzies Research Institute (TAS)

(Private Bag 23, Hobart TAS 7000)
03 6226 7700
enquiries@menzies.utas.edu.au
www.menzies.utas.edu.au

Director: Professor Simon Foote
Deputy Directors: Associate Professor Alison Venn, Professor David Small
General Manager: Position vacant

Principal Affiliations
University of Tasmania
Menzies Foundation
Tasmanian Government
Federal Government
World Health Organisation
The Atlantic Philanthropies
Australian Cancer Research Foundation

Principal Areas of Research
Biostatistics
Cancer
Cardiovascular Disease
Diabetes and Metabolism
Genetics
Immunology
Musculoskeletal
Neuroscience
Population Health and Epidemiology
Primary Health Care and
Respiratory Health. 

Major Current Research
Building Australia's capacity to study preventable causes of common diseases through epidemiological research.

Childhood determinants of adult health (CDAH Phase-2) - follow-up of the 1985 Australian schools health and fitness survey cohort.

Genetic analysis of inherited cancers and other complex disease processes.

Tasmanian older adult cohort - a longitudinal study of knee osteoarthritis using X-Ray and magnetic resonance imaging.

The Australian multi-centre study of environment and immune function (Ausimmune study).

Develop the surveillance and monitoring function of the national non-communicable disease program of Vietnam.

The Tasmanian leukaemia and other haematopoietic malignancies research study.