Dr. Edmore Masaka is a Lecturer, discipline lead for the Occupational Environmental Health and Safety
degree, and Course
Coordinator of the Diploma in Environmental Health at Edith Cowan
University. He holds a Master of Public Health from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2009 and a Diploma of Occupational Health and Safety and a PhD
from Edith Cowan University in 2015 and 2021, respectively. He is a full member of
Environmental Health Australia and the Australian Institute of Occupational
Hygienists. His research areas and interests include opportunistic waterborne
pathogens, occupational noise-induced hearing loss, air quality management, and
food safety.
Dr. Jacques Oosthuizen is Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health at the Edith Cowan University, Australia. Dr. Oosthuizen has worked as
an academic in the field of environmental and occupational health since 1989,
initially in South Africa. In 1999, Dr. Oosthuizen was recruited to Central
Queensland University, and in 2001 he moved to ECU where he established the
undergraduate course in Environmental Health and the postgraduate Masters in
Occupational Hygiene and Toxicology. He holds a BA, MMed Sci and PhD in
Environmental Health. Dr. Oosthuizen is a Certified Occupational Hygienist
registered with the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists and is a
member of Environmental Health Australia and the Safety Institute of Australia.
His research areas and interests include occupational exposure assessment,
lithium dust toxicity, heat stress, climate change and heat adaptation
strategies in developing countries, mosquito vectors and disease control.
