Research Projects
Heart failure is the commonest cardiovascular cause for hospital admission in people aged >65years. It has become increasingly evident that HF...
Supervisor: Professor David Kaye
There is robust evidence that male involvement improves maternal and newborn health outcomes, particularly in low- and middle-income country settings...
Supervisor: Ms Elizabeth Comrie-Thomson
Paracetamol is the most commonly ingested medication in overdose. Large ingestions may require more treatment. The successful candidate will...
Supervisor: Professor Anselm Wong
Lymphatic malformations (LMs) are common vascular malformations in infants and children, and account for about 5% of all benign tumours. Lesions can...
Supervisor: Dr Maurizio Pacilli
In Australia and around the world, demand for ambulance services is growing annually. Understanding the drivers of increasing demand is useful in...
Supervisor: Professor Karen Smith
The most aggressive forms of prostate cancer demonstrate resistance to multiple types of cancer drugs. We have performed RNA-sequencing on a large...
Supervisor: Dr David Goode
Active involvement of people with lived experience or patients (consumers and communities) in health and medical research is fundamental to...
Supervisor: Dr Sandy Reeder
Project Aim: This project aims to drive healthcare improvement in the context of women’s health through codesigned interventions and implementation...
Supervisor: Dr Sandy Reeder
Current therapies for epilepsy are symptomatic, only suppressing the symptoms (seizures), but do not impact the development or progression of disease...
Supervisor: A/Prof Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
The Stem Cell Laboratory in the Department of Neuroscience is investigating new treatments for a class of patients that do not respond to mainstream...
Supervisor: Dr. Shahid Javaid
Pelvic organ prolapse (POP), a debilitating condition affecting millions globally, results from weakened pelvic floor tissues causing organ descent....
Supervisor: Hamid Bidkhori, MD, PhD
Chronic infectious diseases have a devastating effect on global health. HIV and Plasmodium falciparum both cause chronic disease and have evaded...
Supervisor: Professor Kim Good-Jacobson
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the leading cause of non-traumatic brain injury in young Australians, affecting thousands of people nationally. The...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Anneke Van Der Walt
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a chronic mental health disorder affecting approximately 1% of the Australian population. Individuals with...
Supervisor: Dr. Eveline Mu
Early onset sepsis (EOS) is defined as that which occurs within the first 48 hours of life in newborn infants. EOS can be devastating; increasing...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kenneth Tan
Early onset sepsis (EOS) is defined as that which occurs within the first 48 hours of life in newborn infants. EOS can be devastating; increasing...
Supervisor: A/Prof Kenneth Tan
This project will conduct several economic evaluations of e-health interventions for prevention and treatment of mental disorders. The student will...
Supervisor: Long Le
Each year, more than 1 billion adults attend emergency departments internationally, and in Australia this exceeds 6.6 million. Up to half of these...
Supervisor: Long Le
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child highlights that children have the right to good quality health care, clean water, nutritious...
Supervisor: Dr Yeji Baek
Work and workplaces play important roles in population mental health but are underutilised as a platform to improve mental health. A key issue for...
Supervisor: Dr Jemimah Ride