Research Projects
RISE (Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments) is a transdisciplinary research program working at the intersections of human health...
Supervisor: Professor Karin Leder
If you are interested in research the health economic impacts of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, please get in touch.
There are multiple...
Supervisor: Dr Ella Zomer
The importance of hospital admissions data to inform health policy has been evident over the past few years, with the pressure that the COVID-19...
Supervisor: Dr Daniel Griffiths
HealthPathways is a free, online portal that has been established in different regions in each state and territory in Australia to provide evidence-...
Supervisor: Dr Jessica Botfield
This is part of a program of research into health aging and understanding how we can prolong healthspan (life years lived in good health), and reduce...
Supervisor: A/Prof. Joanne Ryan
People usually begin to lose some degree of height around the age of 40 and their rate of decline in height tends to increase with age. Such height...
Supervisor: Aung Zaw Zaw Phyo
Over 75,000 people fleeing dangerous circumstances in their home countries were granted protection in Australia between 2010 and 2015. Many of these...
Supervisor: Professor Grant Russell
Since the pandemic telehealth abortion has become more widespread in many countries. In Australia medicare item numbers were introduced in July 2021...
Supervisor: Professor Danielle Mazza
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Some diagnostic tests and screening are overused and cause overdiagnosis. This can lead to avoidable patient harms and...
Supervisor: Mr Tomas Rozbroj
This project will investigate how general practice (GP) supervisors perceive their preparedness to teach medical students and what they feel would...
Supervisor: Dr Jennifer Neil
A process of primary care renewal is evolving across the developed world. It is increasingly recognised that high performing primary care that has a...
Supervisor: Professor Grant Russell
The project will investigate how the social environment within which primary care patients manage their illness can buffer feelings of stigma and...
Supervisor: Dr Chris Barton
Policy decisions are influenced by many factors. These include the policy issue, policy context, organisational factors, policymaker factors and the...
Supervisor: Dr Samantha Chakraborty
The Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) longitudinal survey of doctors has, since 2008, sought to understand the work...
Supervisor: Professor Grant Russell
Frailty is a common geriatric syndrome characterized by reduced physiological reserve across multiple health domains that collectively make a person...
Supervisor: Aung Zaw Zaw Phyo
Calls to ambulance for stroke represent approximately 3% of emergency calls. Current versions of emergency calling taking protocol include a Stroke...
Supervisor: Professor Janet Bray
This mixed methods research will focus on exploring the experiences of diagnosis and management of endometriosis and/or chronic pelvic pain in...
Supervisor: Dr Sharinne Crawford
Pancreatic cancer is a high mortality cancer which progresses quickly following diagnosis. The average median survival from diagnosis ranges from...
Supervisor: Dr Lin Li
The cornerstone of secondary prevention of heart failure (HF) is identifying high-risk patients for intensive disease management program (DMP)....
Supervisor: Dr Quan Huynh
Bystander CPR more than doubles the chance of survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Recent research suggest the wording used by...
Supervisor: Professor Janet Bray