Research Projects
***Background***
It is important to raise public awareness about overdiagnosis and overtreatment (ODx). ODx is a major problem in healthcare. It...
Supervisor: Mr Tomas Rozbroj
There has been an increase in online prescription services offering access to contraception methods without having to physically meet with a medical...
Supervisor: Dr Anisa Assifi
The Living Evidence for Diabetes Consortium is a collaboration between the Australian Diabetes Society (ADS), Diabetes Australia (DA), the Australian...
Supervisor: Dr Tanya Millard
The megafires of the summer of 2019-20 are a foretaste of the future. Landscape fires will become more common and severe with climate change in...
Supervisor: Professor Michael Abramson
If you are interested in research on the features of, management of and prognosis of chronic disease, including impact of risk factors, please get in...
Supervisor: Professor Sophia Zoungas
People affected by chronic conditions (for example, cancer, musculoskeletal conditions) experience high levels of personal financial burden, for...
Supervisor: Dr Danielle Berkovic
Floods can have direct and indirect health risks. However the health impacts of floods have not been totally understood. This project aims to assess...
Supervisor: Professor Yuming Guo
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
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
*** Background ***
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
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
Pancreatic cancer is a high mortality cancer which progresses quickly following diagnosis. The average median survival from diagnosis ranges from...
Supervisor: Dr Lin Li