Research Projects
People in rural areas have lower access to cancer clinical trials. What factors impact on access and what strategies can be used to access these...
Supervisor: Dr Eli Ristevski
Australian medical students and graduates have indicated that the preparation for their prescribing roles based on their pharmacology and...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Shane Bullock
With collaborators from the UK, Canada and Sweden, we will address the structural drivers of mental illness stigma, as experienced by young rural...
Supervisor: Dr Rochelle Hine
This PhD – 'Finding their voices: Using poetic expression to narrate survivor stories of intimate partner violence (IPV) in regional Australia...
Supervisor: Dr Julie Willems
Monash Rural Health researchers collaborate with researchers from five other Australian Universities to better understand graduate outcomes of...
Supervisor: Dr Eleanor Mitchell
Following a heart attack, medical guidelines recommend that people make many lifestyle changes such as regular exercise, cardiac medications, and...
Supervisor: Dr Denise Azar
Development and evaluation of an experiential web-based simulation to assist medical, nursing and allied health students bridge the gap between...
Supervisor: Dr Marianne Tare
This project would be situated within the Prato International Collaborative for Improvement in Parent, Child and Family Mental Health ("The...
Supervisor: Dr Rochelle Hine
Cancer survivorship rates have increased significantly, placing increased demand on health services. There is little published information about...
Supervisor: Dr Eli Ristevski
The perinatal period is recognised as a time of transition and uncertainty, women are at risk for the development of a range of mental health issues...
Supervisor: Dr Rochelle Hine
The world health organisation recommends exclusive breastfeeding of infants
for 6 months and then continued breastfeeding until two years of age....
Supervisor: Dr Eleanor Mitchell
How can we enable medical students to envision differently? This project will explore, through pre and post qualitative survey questions, an art...
Supervisor: Dr Margaret Simmons
With the increasing focus on community-based care, the majority of older people never end up in residential aged care. This is often with the support...
Supervisor: Dr Eli Ristevski
This project aims to develop a mobile-health system for unborn babies, using non-invasive easy-to-operate devices linked to a mobile phone. The...
Supervisor: Dr Eleanor Mitchell
Given the Australian Government spent over $135 million on older person health assessments in 2019 alone, it is important that the value of the 75+HA...
Supervisor: Dr Eleanor Mitchell
Cancer Australia has developed an Optimal Care Pathway (OCP) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with cancer. The recommendations in...
Supervisor: Dr Eli Ristevski
Access to palliative care can be more challenging in rural compared with metropolitan areas. Multiple research priorities exist, including:
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Supervisor: Dr Eli Ristevski
BACKGROUND
The prevalence and severity of natural disasters is increasing globally (Beaglehole et al., 2018). In Australia, rural communities are...
Supervisor: Dr Rochelle Hine
This project will examine the current state of preparedness of health care professionals and the health care infrastructure for the likely effects of...
Supervisor: Dr David Reser
This project involves a qualitative content analysis of one open-ended question in the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) patient reported...
Supervisor: Dr Eli Ristevski