Biography
Anthony D. LaMontagne is a Professor of Work, Health & Wellbeing at the Institute for Health Transformation and the School of Health & Social Development at Deakin University, in Melbourne (Australia). He also holds appointments and affiliations with the University of Melbourne, Monash University, the University of Massachusetts and the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto. He leads a small research unit in Work, Health & Wellbeing, and from 2020, also serves as Director of the Determinants of Health Research domain, in the Institute for Health Transformation. His broad research interest is in developing the scientific and public understanding of work as a social determinant of health and translating this research into policy and practice to improve workplace and worker health. He has an international profile for cross-disciplinary applied epidemiology and intervention research in work & mental health, occupational health & safety (OH&S) and health promotion.
Specific areas of intervention research expertise include workplace mental health, improving job quality and psychosocial working conditions, and evaluating government policy interventions. Intervention research studies have included process and effectiveness studies, quantitative and qualitative methods, and study designs ranging from case studies to large-scale cluster randomized controlled trials. He has significant experience in working collaboratively with workplace stakeholders from government, industry and labour, as well as mentoring to develop research capacity and engagement with workplace stakeholders and early career researchers. His research and publications have influenced workplace health policy & practice in Australia and internationally. Publications include 225+ peer-reviewed papers, 20+ major reports, and 25+ book chapters in leading public health texts and monographs.
Read more on Tony's profileAffiliations
Adjunct Scientist, Institute for Work & Health, Toronto, Canada
Honorary Professorail Fellow, Melbourne School Global & Population Health, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE.
Honorary Professor, Public Health Foundation of India.
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University.
Research Affiliate, The Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace, USA (CPH-NEW). Research Collaboration with CPH-NEW members and investigators, contributions to educational and outreach activities, and as external advisor to graduate students.
Professional activities
ADVISORY, EDITORIAL, & PEER REVIEW ACTIVITIES - (selected)
2016 International Advisory Board Member, Annals of Occupational Hygiene
2014 Regional Councillor, International Epidemiological Association (IEA) Western Pacific
2011--2014 President, Australasian Epidemiological Association (AEA)
2014-2015 Member, Planning Committee for the Population Health Congress, Hobart, Tasmania, 6-9 September, 2015
2014 Scientific Committee Member, International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), Work Organization and Psychosocial Factors, 17-19 September, 2014, Adelaide SA.
2014 Co-Convener for the Melbourne bid to host the International Association of Epidemiology, World Congress of Epidemiology in 2020.
Publications
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Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Reducing prolonged workplace sitting time in office workers: A cluster-randomised controlled trial
Prof David Dunstan, Dr Genevieve Healy, Prof Neville Owen, A/Prof Elizabeth Eakin, Prof Tony LaMontagne, Prof Marj Moodie
NHMRC Project Grant
- 2014: $6,750
- 2013: $20,252
- 2012: $30,378
Addressing race-based discrimination in Australia: a cost-benefit analysis - Yin Paradies
Prof Yin Paradies, A/Prof Margaret Kelaher, Prof Tony LaMontagne, Dr Marion Frere, Prof Alan Shiell, Dr Lennert Veerman
ARC Linkage - Projects Rnd 2 APAI, ARC Linkage - Projects Rnd 2
- 2012: $105,700
Integrated Workplace Mental Health Promotion for the Prevention and Management of Mental Illness in the Workplace
Prof Tony LaMontagne, Prof Andrew Noblet, Prof Tony Jorm, Dr Nicola Reavley, A/Prof Peter Smith, Dr Tessa Keegel, Dr Angela Martin, Dr Allison Milner
NHMRC - Partnership Project
- 2015: $159,621
- 2014: $261,703
- 2013: $3,750
Long-term educational and employment functioning following adolescent-onset mental illness in a longitudinal cohort of young Victorians
Dr Katrina Witt, Dr Allison Milner, Prof Tony LaMontagne, Prof John Toumbourou
Aust Rotary Health Research Fund Grant
- 2018: $33,963
- 2017: $33,963
National implementation trial of an evidence-informed workplace sitting reduction intervention
Dr Genevieve Healy, A/Prof Elizabeth Eakin, Prof Tony LaMontagne, Prof Marj Moodie, Prof Leon Straker, Prof David Dunstan, Prof Neville Owen, Trevor Shilton, Dr Ana Goode, Dr Nicholas Gilson
NHMRC - Partnership Project
- 2021: $17,891
- 2018: $13,418
Protecting the mental health of small-medium enterprise owners: Evaluating real-world approaches to mental health first aid and client-relationship building training for small business advisers
Prof Andrew Noblet, Prof George Tanewski, Prof Michael Berk, A/Prof Arlene Walker, Prof Tony LaMontagne, Dr Nicola Reavley, Prof Karina Nielsen
NHMRC - Partnership Project
- 2021: $144,947
- 2020: $150,174
Preventing suicide in boys and men
Prof Jane Pirkis, Prof George Patton, Prof John Oliffe, Dr Nicola Reavley, Prof Cathy Mihalopoulos, Prof Tony LaMontagne, Dr Simon Rice, Dr Zac Seidler, Dr Kylie King, Dr Stewart Vella
MRFF (NHMRC) - MMM Suicide Prevention
- 2021: $227,881
Other Public Sector Funding
Workplace stress intervention project
Prof Andrew Noblet, Prof Tony LaMontagne
- 2014: $20,000
- 2013: $100,000
- 2012: $100,000
- 2011: $100,000
Addressing race-based discrimination in Australia: a cost-benefit analysis - Yin Paradies
Prof Yin Paradies, A/Prof Margaret Kelaher, Prof Tony LaMontagne, Dr Marion Frere, Prof Alan Shiell, Dr Lennert Veerman
- 2013: $69,689
Integrated Workplace Mental Health Promotion for the Prevention and Management of Mental Illness in the Workplace
Prof Tony LaMontagne, Prof Andrew Noblet, Prof Tony Jorm, Dr Nicola Reavley, A/Prof Peter Smith, Dr Tessa Keegel, Dr Angela Martin, Dr Allison Milner
- 2015: $115,000
- 2014: $213,857
Integrated Workplace Mental Health Promotion for the Prevention and Management of Mental Illness in the Workplace: A Controlled Experimental Intervention Study
Prof Tony LaMontagne, Prof Andrew Noblet
- 2015: $29,926
- 2014: $65,597
- 2013: $7,622
Development of an integrated mental health literacy and job stress intervention
Prof Tony LaMontagne, Prof Andrew Noblet, Dr Allison Milner, Dr Kathryn Page, Prof Tony Jorm, Dr Nicola Reavley, Dr Angela Martin
- 2013: $9,750
Workplaces and young people ¿ scoping project
Prof Tony LaMontagne, Dr Amanda Allisey, Dr Allison Milner
- 2015: $20,000
Victoria Police StEPS Project: Systems Evaluation for the Prevention of Suicide
Prof Tony LaMontagne, Prof Steven Allender, Dr Allison Milner, Dr Josh Hayward
- 2017: $37,500
- 2016: $37,500
VicHealth Bright Futures Evaluation
Prof Tony LaMontagne, Dr Melissa Weinberg, Dr Adrian Tomyn
- 2019: $10,000
- 2018: $96,279
- 2017: $28,255
- 2016: $28,255
Achievement program workplaces equity analysis
Prof Anna Peeters, Prof Tony LaMontagne, A/Prof Kathryn Backholer, Dr Emma Gearon
- 2018: $11,543
Protecting the mental health of small-medium enterprise owners: Evaluating real-world approaches to mental health first aid and client-relationship building training for small business advisers
Prof Andrew Noblet, Prof George Tanewski, Prof Michael Berk, A/Prof Arlene Walker, Prof Tony LaMontagne, Dr Nicola Reavley, Prof Karina Nielsen
- 2021: $30,000
- 2020: $30,000
Counting on U: Supporting SME advisors & owners towards better mental health
Prof Andrew Noblet, Prof George Tanewski, Mrs Carol Leow-Taylor, Ms Sophie Bromfield, Prof Michael Berk, A/Prof Arlene Walker, Prof Tony LaMontagne, Dr Leanne Saxon
- 2021: $2,238,000
Industry and Other Funding
Strategies for promoting positive mental health in the workplace: A 'how to' guide
Dr Amanda Allisey, Dr Kathryn Page, Prof Tony LaMontagne, Dr Nicola Reavley
- 2014: $71,896
"Yooralla 21": Social Enterprise as a means to promote the social and economic participation of people with disability in the community
A/Prof Keith Mcvilly, Dr Cadeyrn Gaskin, Prof Jane McGillivray, Emeritus Professor Joe Graffam, Prof Tony LaMontagne
- 2016: $39,545
- 2015: $15,000
Suicide in at risk occupational groups: the role of access to lethal means.
Dr Allison Milner, Prof Tony LaMontagne
- 2016: $100,000
Developing Systems Knowledge to prevent suicide in Victoria Police
Dr Amanda Allisey, Prof Tony LaMontagne, Dr Allison Milner, Prof Steven Allender, Prof Andrew Noblet
- 2015: $50,000
Contact&Connect: A smart-phone based stigma reduction intervention for unemployed construction workers
Ms Emma Green, Dr Allison Milner, Prof Tony LaMontagne
- 2015: $25,432
Men@work project
Dr Samuel Harvey, Prof Nicholas Glozier, Prof Tony LaMontagne, Dr Allison Milner
- 2017: $54,110
Suicide in the construction industry: Proposal submitted to MATES in Construction by Deakin University
Dr Allison Milner, Dr Katrina Witt, Prof Tony LaMontagne
- 2016: $5,250
Evaluation of the amended Victorian Achievement Program for schools - Pilot study of outcomes for teachers
Prof Anna Peeters, Prof Liliana Orellana, Prof Tony LaMontagne, Ms Melanie Nichols, Dr Claudia Strugnell, Dr Victoria Brown, Mr Nic Crooks
- 2020: $85,000
- 2019: $92,000
- 2018: $40,000
Overseas Student Wellbeing Project: A partnership between Deakin University and BUPA to better understand and support the health and wellbeing needs of students.
Prof Tony LaMontagne
- 2020: $40,000
- 2019: $83,282
- 2018: $126,565
Protecting the mental health of small-medium enterprise owners: Evaluating real-world approaches to mental health first aid and client-relationship building training for small business advisers
Prof Andrew Noblet, Prof George Tanewski, Prof Michael Berk, A/Prof Arlene Walker, Prof Tony LaMontagne, Dr Nicola Reavley, Prof Karina Nielsen
- 2021: $75,000
- 2020: $120,450
Effectiveness of Interventions delivered by local council to address the social determinants of health.
A/Prof Kathryn Backholer, Prof Anna Peeters, A/Prof Adrian Cameron, Prof Tony LaMontagne, Dr Shane Kavanagh, Ms Christina Zorbas
- 2019: $25,000
Supervisions
Xiaomin Liu
Thesis entitled: Migrant status-related job stressor exposures and associated mental health impacts
Doctor of Philosophy (Health & Social Development), School of Health & Social Development
Anita Lee Trezona
Thesis entitled: Organisational Health Literacy Responsiveness: The Development of a Conceptual Framework and Organisational Self-Assessment Tool
Doctor of Philosophy (Health & Social Development), School of Health & Social Development