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
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
Local Public Health Units (LPHUs) were established in Victoria in 2020, amid the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gippsland Region Public Health Unit...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Alyce Wilson
Cancer survivorship rates have increased significantly, placing increased demand on health services. There is little published information about...
Supervisor: Dr Eli Ristevski
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
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
Data collected through the project is analysed by the ReCEnT team at RACGP and their collaborators to provide insights into clinical and educational...
Supervisor: Dr Angelo D'Amore
StigmaBeat is an ongoing codesigned research project which has led to the co-creation with 18 rural young people from Gippsland, who have experienced...
Supervisor: Dr Rochelle Hine
Our lives are constructed in narrative and the illness narrative in particular, forms an important part of that story. This project will, through...
Supervisor: Dr Margaret Simmons