Associate Professor Tony LaMontagne

Principal Research Fellow , McCaughey Centre, VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing

Telephone: +61 3 8344 0708
Facsimile: +61 3 9348 2832
Email: alamonta@unimelb.edu.au

Introduction

A/Prof LaMontagne’s expertise is in occupational health, health promotion, and the intersection of the two.  In the McCaughey Centre, most of his work falls under the theme area of “economic participation and security” as upstream determinants of mental health & community wellbeing.  “Safe and decent work for fair pay is a fundamental human right and a pillar of civil society.  Yet working conditions continue to be a major contributor to health inequalities in Australia and other countries,” he says.  Hazardous working conditions, and associated disease and injury burdens, disproportionately affect those in less powerful positions in society: for examples, lower occupational status workers, women, and younger workers.  “So we’re a far way from a “fair go” at healthy and sustainable work for all in Australia,” says LaMontagne. “In a society as small and prosperous as Australia, we could be a world leader in the pursuit of that goal, given the political will.”

A/Prof LaMontagne’s interest is in developing scientific and public understanding of work as a social determinant of health, and contributing to improvements in policy & practice aimed at protecting people from the harmful effects of work as well as optimising the health-promoting aspects.  LaMontagne draws on his strong occupational health background, but integrates it with health promotion, sociological, historical, labour relations, and other perspectives.  He collaborates widely and across multiple disciplines to advance understanding of the relationships between work and health, and to translate such knowledge into workplace health policy and practice.  

This strongly multi-disciplinary approach has characterised his career, which has ranged across broad territory, both professionally and geographically.  Tony’s diverse roles have included investigating the impact of oil spills in the Ecuadorian Amazon as a Health and Human Rights Investigator, lecturing in occupational health at the Harvard School of Public Health, and researching job stress at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Health & Society.  At the McCaughey Centre, he anticipates drawing on the complementary expertise of colleagues to develop further multi-disciplinary dimensions to his work.  His aim is to understand work and health in the broader societal context and relate it to other factors that affect people’s health.

Born in the US, Tony’s formal educational qualifications include degrees from Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts, and span botany, molecular toxicology and pharmacology, adult basic education, and occupational and environmental health.  From his initial lab science base, he moved to the field to be closer to application and developed expertise in applied toxicology in occupational and environmental settings. 

Tony’s route to the McCaughey Centre was guided by his wish to do science in the public’s interest.  “I took the notions of democracy and the greater good to heart, and saw it as a guiding principle for my education and life’s work.  I was influenced early on by the reflections of Einstein, Openheimer, and others who grappled with the meaning of responsibility in science, and how to enact that responsibility.  Coupled with my love for science was the conflicted feeling that science had a lot to answer for as well as a lot to offer to society.  This led me to the field of toxicology in the 1980’s, where questions of science, politics, and policy were being debated vigorously.”  Such debates continue to be of central importance in translating the potential benefits of public health research to policy and practice today.

Tony’s current research, policy, and practice interests include:

• Characterising the relationships between working conditions and health behaviours
• Developing, implementing, and evaluating integrated occupational health and workplace health promotion interventions
• Developing a systems approach to job stress
• Changing patterns of work, and their impacts working conditions, health, and wellbeing
• Developing a public health response to asbestos-related disease
• Developing strategies for the surveillance of work-related psychosocial hazards

Supervision

• Work and health
• Occupational health & safety
• Health promotion
• Intervention research

Teaching

• Occasional lectures in public health, health promotion, occupational health protection, occupational medicine, and social medicine;
• Community outreach through workshops and seminars in intervention development and evaluation, job stress, asbestos disease, and other topics for practicing practicing professionals, policy-makers, community groups and other stakeholders, both locally and nationally.

Qualifications

Doctor of Science (Sc.D.), Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 1994. Field: Occupational & environmental health.

Master of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. 1988.  Field high school science and adult basic education.

Master of Arts, Harvard University, Boston, MA. 1987.  Field: Molecular toxicology & pharmacology.

Bachelor of Science summa cum laude, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. 1982.  Field: botany (major) & French (minor).

Work History

A/Prof LaMontagne has worked as a researcher, lecturer, occupational health and safety consultant, and health and human rights investigator, among other roles.  He has worked in universities and research institutes in North America and Australia, and in the field in Ecuador, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.  He has implemented interventions and conducted research in a wide range of settings, including hospitals, manufacturing plants, fire departments, and former nuclear weapon production facilities.  

His recent work history has included:

2006-present: Principal Research Fellow, McCaughey Centre

2003-2006, Associate Professor, Centre for Health & Society, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne 

2000-2003, Senior Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, Monash Medical School, Melbourne

1998-1999, Instructor in Occupational Health, Center for Community-Based Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA.

1996-1999, Instructor in occupational health, toxicology, and cancer prevention, Occupational Health Program, Harvard School of Public Health

1996-1998, Senior Research Scientist, New England Research Institutes,
Watertown, MA.

1994-1995, U.S. National Cancer Institute Research Fellow in Cancer Prevention, Harvard School of Public Health.

Recent Research Support (2004—present)

Chief Investigator (University of Melbourne collaboration with University of South Australia, South Australian Department of Human Services, Erasmus University (NETHERLANDS), Institute for Work & Health (CANADA): “Working wounded or engaged? Australian work conditions and consequences through the lens of the Job Demands- Resources Model.”  Funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC), 2008—2011.  Chief Investigators A/Prof MF Dollard; Prof AH Winefield; A/Prof AD LaMontagne; A/Prof AW Taylor; Prof Dr A Bakker; Prof C Mustard.

Responsible Investigator (University of Melbourne collaboration with beyondblue), “Development and piloting of an integrated job stress and workplace mental health promotion intervention'.  Funded by ACT Health, October 2007—September 2010.

Responsible Investigator, “Benchmarking of Current Exposures to Psychosocial Hazards in Australian Workplaces.” Funded by the Australian Safety & Compensation Council (ASCC), December 2006—Jun 2007

Co-Investigator, “Changing patterns of work: impacts on physical & mental health and the mediating role of resiliency and social capital.”  CI-A Prof S Richardson (Flinders Uni), CI-B Prof F Baum (Flinders Uni), CI-C A/Prof A Kavanagh, CI-D A/Prof AD LaMontagne.  Funded by the Australian National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC), 2007— 2011

Co-Investigator, “Establishment of a Latrobe Valley power industry cohort
and biospecimen bank for the study of asbestos-related disease.”  CI-A Andrew Holloway (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre), CI-B AD LaMontagne.  Funded by the Australian National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC), January 2007—January 2010

Co-Investigator, “Victorian Health Inequalities Consortium.”  Contract based
at Monash University (Helen Keleher, RI).  Funded by Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, June 2006—Dec 2007

Co-Investigator, “Building Canadian Research Capacity in the Social
Determinants of Workplace Health: Adding Value Through International Collaboration.”  Grant based at University of British Columbia (A Ostry, PI).  Funded by Canadian Institute for Health Research, March—August 2005

Responsible Investigator, “Workplace Stress in Victoria: Developing a
Systems Approach.” Funded by Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, December 2004—Jun 2006

Co-Investigator, “Work-Related Stress: Causes, Impacts, and Solutions.”
Prime contract based at University of South Australia (M Dollard, RI).  Funded by NSW Workcover, August 2004—Feb 2006

Co-Investigator, "Occupational Asthma - Detection, Surveillance and
Prevention of the Disease Burden." M Sim (PI), M Abramson, AD LaMontagne, D Elder, and R Aroni Co-Investigators.  Funded by the Department of Human Services of Victoria, May 2004—October 2005

Selected Publications (2000—present)

Noblet A and LaMontagne AD (in press): The challenges of developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions.  In: Cartwright S and Cooper CL (Editors), The Oxford Handbook Of Organizational Wellbeing.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

LaMontagne AD, Hunter CE, Vallance D, and Holloway AJ (in press, accepted 30 Aug 2007 review): Asbestos disease in Australia: Looking forward & looking back.  New Solutions: A Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Policy.

Dollard MF, LaMontagne AD, Caulfield N, Blewett V, and Shaw A (in press, accepted 5 May 07): Job stress in the Australian and international health and community services sector: A review of the literature.  Intl J Stress Management.

Keegel T, Saunders H, LaMontagne AD, Nixon R. (2007): Are Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) useful in the diagnosis and management of occupational contact dermatitis? Contact Dermatitis57:331-336.

Stuckey R, LaMontagne AD, and Sim MR (2007): Working in light vehicles—a review and conceptual model for occupational health and safety.  Accident Analysis & Prevention 39(5):1006-1014.

NIOSH (Principal Contributors: Palassis J, Mattheissen C, Santiago A, Hadley J, LaMontagne AD, and Harris A) (2007).  ALERT: Preventing Worker Injuries and Deaths from Explosions in Industrial Ethylene Oxide Sterilization Facilities: Revised Edition.  United States Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).  DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2007—164 (supercedes 2000—119), 40 pages.  See http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2007-164.

Collins S, Warren N, Landsbergis PA, and LaMontagne AD (e-pub ahead of print, 5 March 2007):  Stopping stress at its origins—addressing working conditions (letter).  Hypertension 49: 1-2. 

Stuckey R, LaMontagne AD, and Sim MR (in press, accepted 17 January 2007): Working in light vehicles—a review and conceptual model for occupational health and safety.  Accident Analysis & Prevention.

LaMontagne AD, Steenland NK, and Kelsey KT (2007):  Ethylene oxide, chapter 73 in Rom WN & Markowitz SB (Editors), Environmental & Occupational Medicine, Fourth Edition.  Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, pages 1144-1157.

Louie AM, Ostry A, Quinlan M, Keegel TG, Shoveller J, and LaMontagne AD (2006): Empirical study of employment arrangements and precariousness in Australia.  Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations 61(3); 465-489.

Blewett V, Shaw A, LaMontagne AD, Dollard MF (2006).  Job Stress: Causes, Impact and Solutions in the Health and Community Services Sector.  Sydney: WorkCover NSW, 165 pages. 

Noblet A and LaMontagne AD (2006): The role of workplace health promotion in addressing job stress. Health Promotion International 21;4:346-353.

Shaw A and LaMontagne AD (2006): "Acting on job stress –do we have a context for action?"  Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society of Australia, New Technology--Putting Macro and Micro in Context, 20—22 November 2006, Sydney, Australia (9 pages—peer-reviewed).

LaMontagne AD, Shaw A, Ostry A, Louie AM, and Keegel T (May 2006): Workplace Stress in Victoria: Developing a Systems Approach.  Melbourne: Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, 152 pages.  ISBN 0-9757335-3-2.  Co-published with a VicHealth summary of the full report: Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (May 2006): Workplace Stress in Victoria: Developing a Systems Approach. A Summary Report.  Melbourne: Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, 24 pages.  ISBN 0-9757335-2-4. 

LaMontagne AD, Radi S, Elder DS, Abramson MJ, and Sim MR (2006): Primary prevention of latex-related sensitisation and occupational asthma: a systematic review.  Occup Environ Medicine 63:359-364.

Abramson M, Elder D, LaMontagne AD, and Sim MR (2006).  Occupational asthma.  Asthma Update 29:8-11

Ostry A, Radi S, Louie AM, and LaMontagne AD (2006 Mar 2): Psychosocial and other working conditions in relation to body mass index in a representative sample of Australian workers.  BMC Public Health 6:53 (8 pages).

LaMontagne AD (2005): Invited Commentary: Corporate Influence on Threshold Limit Values. Policy & Practice in Health & Safety. 3(2) Supplement: 33-34.

LaMontagne AD, Stoddard AM, Youngstrom RA, Lewiton M, and Sorensen G (2005): Improving the prevention and control of hazardous substances: a randomized controlled trial in manufacturing worksites. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 48:282-292. 

Sim MR, Abramson M, LaMontagne AD, Aroni R, Elder D, and Peters A (October 2005): Occupational Asthma--Detection, Surveillance and Prevention of the Disease Burden, Melbourne: Victorian Department of Human Services.  80 pages.

LaMontagne AD (2005): Invited Editorial: Cost-effectiveness of surveillance for isocyanate asthma: finding an occupational health policy framework.  Occ Env Medicine 62:741-742

LaMontagne AD and Walker HH (2005): Community views on responding to a local asbestos disease epidemic: Implications for policy and practice.  Policy & Practice in Health & Safety 3;1:69-84.

Keegel T, Fletcher AS, Cahill J, Nixon RL, Sakata S, Moyle M, and LaMontagne AD (June 2005). Exposure, communication, and hazard: A case control study of skin sensitizers and worker sensitization (conference paper). The Second International Conference on Occupational & Environmental Exposures of Skin to Chemicals – 2005 (Stockholm). 

Linnan LA, LaMontagne AD, Stoddard AM, Emmons K, and Sorensen G (2005): Worksite-level norms concerning smoking, nutrition, and occupational safety and health practices: Results of the Wellworks-2 study. American J Health Behavior 29(3):258-268. 

Stuckey R and LaMontagne AD (2005): Occupational light vehicle use and OHS legislative frameworks: An Australian example.  Intl J Occup & Environ Health 11(2): 167-179. 

Hunt MK, Lederman R, Stoddard AM, LaMontagne AD, McLellan D, Combe C, Barbeau E, Sorensen G (2005): Process evaluation of an integrated health promotion/occupational health model in Wellworks-2.  Health Education and Behavior 32(1):10-26.

Marsit CJ, LaMontagne AD, and Kelsey KT (2005): Biological markers in occupational and environmental medicine.  In: Textbook of Clinical Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Second Edition (Rosenstock L, Cullen MR, Brodkin CA, and Redlich CA, Editors). Philadelphia: Elsevier/Saunders, pages 139-145.

LaMontagne AD, Oakes JM, and Lopez-Turley R (2004): Long-term ethylene oxide exposure trends in US hospitals: intervention needed to preserve gains made following 1984 OSHA standard.  American J Public Health 94;9:1620-1626.

LaMontagne AD, Barbeau E, Youngstrom R, Lewiton M, Stoddard AM, McLellan D, Wallace L, and Sorensen G (2004): Assessing and intervening on OSH programs: effectiveness evaluation of the Wellworks-2 intervention in 15 manufacturing worksites.  Occupational & Environmental Medicine 61:651-660.

LaMontagne AD (2004): Improving occupational health & safety policy through intervention research. J Occup Health Safety – Aust NZ 20;2: 107-113.

LaMontagne AD (2004): Integrating health promotion and health protection in the workplace.  In: Moodie R and Hulme A (Editors), Hands-On Health Promotion. Melbourne: IP Communications, pages 285-298.

Barbeau E, Roelofs C, Youngstrom R, Sorensen G, Stoddard AM, and LaMontagne AD (2004): An assessment of occupational health and safety programs in small businesses. American J Industrial Medicine 45(4): 371-379.

LaMontagne AD and Shaw A (2004): Evaluating OHS Interventions: A Worksafe Victoria Intervention Evaluation Framework.  Melbourne: Worksafe Victoria. 

Sorensen G, Stoddard AM, LaMontagne AD, Emmons K, Hunt MK, Youngstrom R, McLellan D, and Christiani DC (2003): A comprehensive worksite cancer prevention intervention: Behavior change results from a randomized controlled trial in manufacturing worksites (United States). Journal of Public Health Policy 24(1): 5-25.

LaMontagne AD (2003): Improving occupational health & safety policy through intervention research.  In: Priorities in Occupational Health & Safety: Proceedings of the Second Annual Centre for Public Health Research Symposium in Health Research and Policy.  Occasional Report Series, No. 3 (Pearce N, McLean D, and Berry R, Editors).  Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, Private Box 756, Wellington, New Zealand.  ISBN 0-473-09642-0; ISSN 1176-1237, pages 125-133. 

LaMontagne AD, Youngstrom R, Lewiton M, Stoddard A, Perry M, Klar JM, Christiani DC, and Sorensen G (2003): An exposure prevention rating method for intervention needs assessment and effectiveness evaluation.  Appl Occup Env Hygiene 18:523-534.

LaMontagne AD and Christiani DC (2002). Prevention of work-related cancers.  New Solutions: A Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Policy 12(2):137-156.

Sorensen GC, Stoddard A, LaMontagne AD, Emmons K, Hunt MK, Youngstrom R, McLellan D, and Christiani DC (2002): A comprehensive worksite cancer prevention intervention: Behavior change results from a randomized controlled trial in manufacturing worksites. Cancer Causes & Control 13(6): 493-502.
Related Editorial in same issue—Colditz GA: Disseminating research findings into practice, pp 503-504.

LaMontagne AD, Herrick RF, Martyny JW, Van Dyke MV, and Ruttenber AJ (2002): Exposure databases and exposure surveillance: promise and practice.  American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal 63(2): 205-212.

LaMontagne AD, Martyny JW, Van Dyke MV, and Ruttenber AJ (2002): Development & pilot testing of an exposure surveillance system for DOE cleanup operations.  American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal 63(2): 213-224.

Goldenhar LM, LaMontagne AD, Katz T, Heaney C, and Landsbergis P (2001): The intervention research process in occupational safety & health: an overview from the NORA Intervention Effectiveness Team.  Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine 43(7):616-622.

LaMontagne AD and Kelsey KT (2001): Evaluating OSHA’s ethylene oxide standard: exposure determinants in Massachusetts hospitals.  American Journal of Public Health 91(3):412-417.

LaMontagne AD, Van Dyke MV, Martyny JW, and Ruttenber AJ (2001): Cleanup worker exposures to hazardous chemicals at a former nuclear weapons plant: piloting of an exposure surveillance system. Applied Occupational & Environmental Hygiene 16(2):284-290.

Van Dyke MV, LaMontagne AD, Martyny JW, and Ruttenber AJ (2001): Development of an exposure database and surveillance system for use by practicing OSH professionals. Applied Occupational & Environmental Hygiene 16(2):135-143.

Ruttenber AJ, McCrea JS, Wade TD, Schonbeck MF, LaMontagne AD, Van Dyke MV, and Martyny JW (2001): Integrating workplace exposure databases for occupational medicine services and epidemiologic studies at a former nuclear weapons facility. Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 16(2);192-200.

LaMontagne AD and Christiani DC (2000). Prevention of work-related cancers.  In Cancer Prevention: The Causes and Prevention of Cancer, Volume I, (Colditz GA and Hunter D, Editors). Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 281-300.

LaMontagne AD, Ruttenber AJ, and Wegman DH (2000): Exposure surveillance for chemical and physical hazards.  In Workplace Health Surveillance: An Action-Oriented Approach (Maizlish NA, Ed).  London: Oxford University Press, pp. 219-234.

LaMontagne AD (2000): Evaluation of OSHA Health Standards.  In Levy BS and Wegman DH (Editors): Occupational Health: Recognizing and Preventing Work-Related Diseases and Injury, Fourth Edition.  Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, pp. 134-135.

NIOSH (Principal Contributors: Palassis J, Mattheissen C, Santiago A, Hadley J, LaMontagne AD, and Harris A) (2000).  ALERT: Preventing Worker Injuries and Deaths from Explosions in Industrial Ethylene Oxide Sterilization Facilities.  US Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).  DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2000-119 .

Recent National & International Research Presentations (2006-present)

Aug 2007, AUSTRALASIAN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 16th ANNUAL MEETING, 26-29 August 2006, Hobart.  Oral paper session chair on “Occupational Epidemiology,” oral presenter on “Job strain population attributable risks for common mental disorders in a sample of working Australians,” by LaMontagne AD, Keegel T, & Wolfe R, and co-author on oral presentation on “Measuring worker participation in occupational health and safety,” by Keegel T, Erbas B, & LaMontagne AD.

Aug 2007, NATIONAL SCIENCE EFESTIVAL, Canberra, 20 August 2007.  Invited panel speaker on work & mental health for a live audience, moderated by ABC Radio’s Life Matters Presenter Richard Aedy, and broadcast on Life Matters on 24 August 2007.

Jun 2007, DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SCIENCES, NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL & RESEARCH CENTRE, Denver, Colorado (USA), 18 June 2007.  Seminar presenter on “An Australian Case Study in the Assessment of Research Impact—Workplace Stress in Victoria: Developing a Systems Approach.”

Jun 2007, 19th IUHPE WORLD CONFERENCE ON HEALTH PROMOTION & HEALTH EDUCATION, Vancouver CANADA, 10-15 June 2007. 

• Oral presenter on “A Systematic Review of the Job Stress Intervention Evaluation Literature: Evidence of Effectiveness for a Systems Approach”, LaMontagne AD, Keegel T, Louie A, Ostry A, Landsbergis PA;
• Oral presenter on “Developing and using local and community wellbeing indicators: learning from the experience of Community Indicators Victoria,” presented for Wiseman J and Community Indicators of Victoria team.

May 2007, LABOUR MARKET FLEXIBILITY & REGULATION: AUSTRALIAN & INTERNATIONAL IMPACTS & STRATEGIES, McCaughey Centre, University of Melbourne, 29 May 2007.  Oral presenter (1 of 4 presentations) on “Psychosocial and other working conditions in relation to employment arrangements in a sample of working Victorians,” Louie A, Ostry AS, Shoveller J, Quinlan M, Radi S, LaMontagne AD.

Feb 2007, NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR OHS REGULATION, 2007 COLLOQUIUM, 6-8 February, Australian National University, Canberra:

• Oral presenter on “Workplace stress in Victoria: developing a systems approach: summary of findings and implications for policy and practice,”LaMontagne AD, Shaw A, Ostry A, Louie A, and Keegel T;
• Co-author on “Risk & Protective Factors for Occupational Light Vehicle User Crash, Injury, and Fatality Outcomes,” Stuckey R, LaMontagne AD, and Sim MR. 
• Senior author on “Worker Participation in OHS: Theory, Policy and Practice,” Keegel T and LaMontagne AD;
• Oral presenter on “Policy and Practice Responses to the VicHealth Job stress Report,” LaMontagne AD, Shaw A, Ostry A, Louie A, and Keegel T;
• Senior author on “Smoking Cessation in Asbestos Exposed Workers- What Public Health Response?,” Vallance D, Holloway A, and LaMontagne AD;

Nov 2006, 42nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE of the HUMAN FACTORS & ERGONOMICS SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA, New Technology—Putting Macro and Micro in Context, Sydney, Australia, 20-22 November 2006.  Senior author on oral presentation entitled "Acting on job stress – do we have a context for action?"  Shaw A & LaMontagne AD.

Nov 2006, AUSTRALIAN HEALTH INEQUITIES PROGRAM 2006 RETREAT,
Deakin University (Geelong campus), Australia, 14-15 November 2006.  Invited speaker on “Work & health.”

Sep 2006, EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CONTACT DERMATITIS 8TH CONGRESS,
13-16 September 2006, Berlin. Senior author on oral presentation entitled "Do accurate MSDS sensitizer warnings prevent worker sensitization?" Keegel T, Erbas B, Dharmage S, Fletcher AS, Cahill J, Sakata S, Nixon RL, and LaMontagne AD.

Sep 2006, AUSTRALASIAN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 15th ANNUAL
MEETING, 17-19 September 2006, Melbourne.  Oral paper session chair on “Social Epidemiology” and poster presenter on “Psychosocial and other working conditions in relation to employment arrangements in a sample of working Australians,” AM Louie, A Ostry, J Shoveller, M Quinlan, TG Keegel, S Radi, and AD LaMontagne.

June 2006, AUSTRALIAN SAFETY & COMPENSATION COUNCIL NATIONAL
WORKSHOP on HAZARD & EXPOSURE SURVEILLANCE, 26-27 June 2006, Sydney.  Invited oral presenter on “Developing a National Workplace Exposure Surveillance Strategy: Occupational Psychosocial Hazards & Mental Health.”

June 2006, CANADIAN ASSOCIATION for RESEARCH on WORK &
HEALTH/SAFETYNET CONFERENCE: RESEARCH ON WORKPLACE HEALTH & SAFETY—FROM THE CORE TO THE MARGINS, 7-10 June 2006, St. John’s Newfoundland, CANADA.  Session co-chair with M Quinlan of session on “Occupational Health Effects of Precarious Employment,” and:

• Oral presenter on “Occupational Stress in Relation to Precarious Employment in an Australian Representative Sample,” AM Louie, A Ostry, J Shoveller, M Quinlan, S Radi, and AD LaMontagne;
• Oral presenter on “Overcoming Practical Challenges in Intervention Research”, AD LaMontagne and C Needleman;
• Oral presenter on “OHS Management Systems in US Small/Medium Manufacturing Workplaces,” E Barbeau, C Roelofs, R Youngstrom, G Sorensen, A Stoddard, and AD LaMontagne;
• Co-author on “The Impact of Social Context on Stakeholder Perceptions of Workplace Stress,” AM Louie, AD LaMontagne, A Ostry, A Shaw, and JA Shoveller;
• Senior author on “Patterns of job strain in a representative sample of working Victorians: Enabling evidence-based policy and practice,” T Keegel, A Ostry, and AD LaMontagne

June 2006, DIVISION OF OCCUPATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL, NATIONAL
JEWISH HOSPITAL & MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE, Denver Colorado, USA (June 5, 2006).  Seminar speaker on “Making the case for addressing job stress in Victoria, Australia.”

May 2006, OHS & WORKERS COMPENSATION IN THE NEW INDUSTRIAL
LANDSCAPE (ACTU annual OHS conference), 10-12 May 2006, Melbourne.  Invited speaker with M Quinlan on “Work Choices: How it will affect workers’ health & safety.”

Mar 2006, APA/NIOSH (American Psychological Association/US National Ins for Occup
Safety & Health) WORK, STRESS & HEALTH 2006: MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORKPLACE, March 2-4 2006, Miami USA.  Senior author on oral presentation on “Occupational Stress in Relation to Precarious Employment in an Australian Representative Sample,” AM Louie, A Ostry, J Shoveller, M Quinlan, S Radi, and AD LaMontagne; and first author on poster presented by A Ostry on “Psychosocial Working Conditions and Smoking/Quit Status in a Representative Sample of Working Australians,” AD LaMontagne, S Radi, and A Ostry.

Feb 2006, NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR OHS REGULATION, 2006
COLLOQUIUM, 15-16 February, Australian National University, Canberra.  Oral presenter on “Job stress in relation to employment arrangements in a representative sample of working Australians,” by Louie AM, Ostry A, Shoveller J, Quinlan M, Radi S, and LaMontagne AD; senior author on “Patterns of job strain in representative sample of working Victorians: Enabling evidence-based policy & practice,” by Keegel TG, Ostry A, and LaMontagne AD; and co-author on “Characterising the Occupational Light Vehicle User Population in NSW”, by Stuckey R, LaMontagne AD, and Sim MR. .

Feb 2006, NATIONAL CENTRE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY & POPULATION HEALTH,
14 Feb 2006, Australian National University, Canberra AUSTRALIA.  Seminar speaker on “Job Stress in Relation to Employment Arrangements in a Sample of Working Australians.”

Community Outreach & Involvement (Highlights, 2003-present)

May 2006, Public launch of Workplace Stress in Victoria: Developing a Systems
Approach at Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Melbourne VIC.  Speakers Professor R Moodie (CEO, VicHealth), Justice C Maxwell QC (Supreme Court of Victoria), and AD LaMontagne (lead author of report). 

Dec 2005, AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS (ACTU), Melbourne:
Invited speaker to national meeting of union Occupational Health & Safety Officers on the OHS implications of the Howard government’s “Work Choices” industrial relations legislation.

Sep 2005, SHOCAi PROJECT (Safe Handling of Chemicals in the Automotive Industry,
a labour, industry, and Worksafe Victoria collaborative project), Melbourne.  Invited speaker on “Hazardous substances in the workplace: Developing safe systems of work & upstream solutions.”

Jul 2005, Gippsland Asbestos-Related Disease Support Group
(GARDS), Newborough, VIC.  Co-presenter with Dr. Cecily Hunter on ‘A history of community responses to asbestos issues in the Latrobe Valley’.

Mar 2005, COMCARE NATIONAL OHS CONFERENCE: TOWARDS
AUSTRALIA’S SAFEST WORKPLACES III, March 23-24 2005, Canberra.  Invited speaker on “OHS Intervention & Evaluation: Research to Practice.”

2004–2006, VICTORIAN ASBESTOS GROUP, Carlton, VIC.  Invited member
representing academia and research on collective of asbestos support & advocacy groups, asbestos disease victims, professional counsellors, lawyers, trade unions, and others.

Nov 2004, VicHealth Annual Legal Challenge: Public Debate on Community
Participation in Health Planning, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne.  Invited presenter for Team Debating the Case for. 

Sep 2004, Public launch of Work and Health in the Latrobe Valley:  Community Perspectives on Asbestos Issues at Moe RSL, Moe VIC (September 2004), including speakers from local government, asbestos advocacy group, and trade unions. 

2003—pres, GIPPSLAND ASBESTOS-RELATED DISEASE SUPPORT GROUP (GARDS), Newborough, VIC.  Advisor to community group.

Prizes & Awards
Victorian Health Promotion Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Health Promotion 2006, Mental Health & Wellbeing Category ($15,000--75,000) for project and publication entitled Workplace Stress in Victoria: Developing a Systems Approach.  Melbourne: Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, 152 pages, 2006.

Recent Consultancies

Independent Review Panel Chair: Chaired expert panel in the conduct of a peer review of the primary medical and environmental investigations of a suspected brain cancer cluster among RMIT Building 108 employees, June 2006—February 2007.  See panel reports:

• LaMontagne AD, Glass D, Benke G, and McLean C (2 August 2006): Review of Primary Investigation of Suspected Brain Cancer Cluster in RMIT Building 108, Levels 16 & 17. 
  


• LaMontagne AD, Glass D, and Benke G (20 February 2007): Review of Primary Investigation of Suspected Brain Cancer Cluster and Employee Health Complaints in RMIT Building 108.  11 pages.

Lead Investigator: Australian Safety & Compensation Council (ASCC) project on “Benchmarking of Current Exposures to Psychosocial Hazards in Australian Workplaces,” December 2006—Jun 2007.