Professor, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University
Chair, Sleep Health Foundation
Shantha Rajaratnam was awarded his PhD degree from Monash University in 1998, and completed a Bachelor of Laws degree in 2000. He undertook postdoctoral training at the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Surrey, UK from 2000-2002, where he investigated human sleep-wake regulation, in particular the role of melatonin. In 2004 he took up a visiting academic position at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA. He returned to Monash in 2006 and established the Monash Sleep Network (now serving as the Chair of its Executive Committee), which combines scientific and clinical expertise in sleep research within the University and the affiliated hospitals.
How to manage the sleep problems that are causes and consequences of men’s health concerns