Research Projects
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: Assoc 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
Genetic variants (DNA changes) can result in increased risk of diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disease and dementia. However, some DNA changes...
Supervisor: Dr Paul Lacaze
Understanding the specific locations of trauma events and how these locations are changing over time creates powerful information for driving injury...
Supervisor: Dr Ben Beck
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
This project will work as a part of the creation of a national Maternity Learning Health System.
We are looking for multiple students across the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Emily Callander
Lifestyle interventions in pregnancy have been shown to be highly effective and cost-effective. However, certain groups are at higher cardiometabolic...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Emily Callander
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
Approximately 250,000 Australians make a workers' compensation claim every year. Australia's workers' compensation schemes spend in...
Supervisor: Professor Alex Collie
Increasing proportions of women are entering pregnancy overweight (>30%) or obese (20%). Simple lifestyle interventions can prevent weight gain...
Supervisor: Dr Cheryce Harrison
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
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
Calls to ambulance for stroke represent approximately 3% of emergency calls. Current versions of emergency calling taking protocol include a Stroke...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Janet Bray
On March 16th 2020, the Victorian Government declared a four-week State of Emergency to strengthen measures against the state’s rising number of...
Supervisor: Dr Joanna Dipnall
Ethnic differences exist in the pathogenesis, prevalence and complications of hypertension. There is a body of work on the high prevalence of low-...
Supervisor: Dr StellaMay Gwini
Women are gaining access weight with adverse health outcomes for themselves and the next generation. This is accelerated in and around the pregnancy...
Supervisor: Professor Helena Teede
This project is for someone who sees themselves making a real difference to health outcomes. The candidate will learn about the field of knowledge...
Supervisor: Dr Samantha Chakraborty
An exciting opportunity exists for an exceptional candidate who is interested in undertaking a PhD project in the field of implementation science,...
Supervisor: Professor Danielle Mazza
Continuity of care following injury and illness has been recognised as leading to better healthcare outcomes, as well as higher cost effectiveness of...
Supervisor: Dr Shannon Gray