Research Projects
The Living Evidence for Diabetes Consortium is a collaboration between the Australian Diabetes Society (ADS), Diabetes Australia (DA), the Australian...
Supervisor: Dr Tanya Millard
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
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
Optimal clinical outcomes in emergency care are driven by rapid application of evidence informed clinical pathways. This is paramount in cardiac and...
Supervisor: Professor Karen Smith
In recent years, the landscape of education has been profoundly influenced by technological advancements and innovative teaching methodologies. One...
Supervisor: Dr Md Nazmul Karim
Climate change exacerbates the frequency and intensity of disasters (e.g., bushfires, floods, heatwaves), disproportionately affecting migrant and...
Supervisor: Revathi N. Krishna
Genetic variants (DNA changes) can result in increased risk of diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disease and dementia. However, some DNA changes...
Supervisor: Professor Paul Lacaze
Communities are not homogenous. While residents may share a geographical connection, they can have diverse experiences in their locales. Population-...
Supervisor: Revathi N. Krishna
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 project aims to comprehensively assess the health burden and economic costs of bushfire smoke across Australia. It will accurately quantify the...
Supervisor: Gongbo Chen
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: Professor 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
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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
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 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
The cornerstone of secondary prevention of heart failure (HF) is identifying high-risk patients for intensive disease management program (DMP)....
Supervisor: Dr Quan Huynh