Research Projects
Endometriosis is a chronic condition characterized by pelvic pain and subfertility. Endometriosis affects approximately 10% of women, affecting...
Supervisor: Dr Maryam Moradi
The project will describe the extent to which Victorian patients access emergency care at multiple hospitals. In addition to quantifying the extent...
Supervisor: Dr Stella Talic
Background:
Informal settlements are home to more than a billion people. This number is growing annually in low and middle-income countries such as...
Supervisor: Dr Rebekah Henry
If you are interested in research on physical activity and sedentary behaviour and their impact on health in adults/older adults, please get in touch...
Supervisor: A/Prof Danijela Gasevic
The COVCan study aims to evaluate the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on cancer management at The Alfred Hospital.
Background:
Cancer patients are...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Robert Stirling
General practice nurses (GPNs) are pivotal in the management of care for patients across the lifespan. Their role includes health education, health...
Supervisor: Dr Sharon James
Hip osteoarthritis (OA) is a major cause of pain and disability with no treatment that affects progression of disease. The prevalence of hip OA is...
Supervisor: Dr Yuanyuan Wang
Diabetes represents the fastest growing chronic disease in Australia, with a recent estimate of around 280 Australians developing diabetes each day....
Supervisor: Dr Ella Zomer
This project, which has the flexibility to choose from a variety of potential exposures, aims to examine the relationship between paramedic...
Supervisor: Ziad Nehme
Viral hepatitis is responsible for more deaths globally than HIV and malaria, with hepatitis C virus (HCV) accounting for a third of viral hepatitis...
Supervisor: Doctor Rachel Sacks-Davis
Climate change has been described as the greatest global health threat of the twenty-first century. It can negatively impact health in many ways:...
Supervisor: Professor Karin Leder
The Optimise Study is a multiplatform study exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the community; this includes assessing the communities understanding...
Supervisor: Professor Margaret Hellard
The benefits of music on our emotional well-being are well established. Music can reduced pain and improve mood, and music therapy is being used in...
Supervisor: A/Prof. Joanne Ryan
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a major cause of pain and disability and accounts for approximately 90% of knee replacements. The prevalence of knee OA...
Supervisor: Dr Yuanyuan Wang
Opiate substitution therapy is an evidence based intervention for reducing the health risks of addiction to opiates. Among people who inject drugs,...
Supervisor: Professor Margaret Hellard
Zemiotics, or zemiology, deriving from the classical Greek word zemia, is a new body of research which focuses on social harm and loss. As Boukli and...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Charles Livingstone
This will be a retrospective review of older patients diagnosed with major trauma patients that presented to Australia and New Zealand.
The...
Supervisor: Professor Biswadev Mitra
One in five Australian women experience sexual violence, while one in three Australian girls experience childhood sexual abuse. Women and girls who...
Supervisor: Dr Noushin Arefadib
Australian women from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds are disproportionately less likely than their Australian-born peers to...
Supervisor: Dr Noushin Arefadib
Bike riding has the potential to lead to huge gains in population health (such as through increased physical activity) and environmental health....
Supervisor: Dr Ben Beck