Public Health

The Unit public health activities seek to define the burden of venomous bite and sting injury, and its determinants, in Australia and the Indo-Pacific region, and to be a Resource Centre for the dissemination of such information for injury prevention purposes. It is also a national pharmacovigilence centre for antivenom related adverse drug reactions and aims to improve the quality of epidemiological tools to study venomous bite and sting injuries in collaboration with leading injury researchers and national statistical agencies.