Research Projects
Clinical registries play an important role in measuring healthcare delivery, supporting quality improvement and evaluating clinical outcomes,...
      Supervisor:     A/Prof Jun Yang  
  
  This project aims to better define rates of reactivation from the point of initial exposure/infection to the later development of active TB. The...
      Supervisor:     A/Prof James Trauer  
  
  Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), including pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, are leading causes of maternal and perinatal morbidity and...
      Supervisor:     Dr Annie McDougall  
  
  There has been an explosion in research on psychedelic drugs in recent years, including clinical trials of psilocybin and MDMA (ecstasy) for the...
      Supervisor:     Assoc Professor Adrian Carter  
  
  I am co-lead of the DNA Screen population DNA screening pilot study (recently completed in 2024): https://dnascreen.monash.edu/. 
If you have an...
      Supervisor:     Dr Jane Tiller PhD  
  
  There are differences in fracture risk between ethnic groups in both men and in women across the globe. It is important to understand the underlying...
      Supervisor:     Dr Ayse Zengin  
  
  Consumer and community involvement in healthcare is vital to improving satisfaction with care
This project focuses on systematic literature review...
      Supervisor:     Assoc Professor Jacqueline Boyle  
  
  Uncertainty tolerance is a psychological construct describing how individuals manage and respond to uncertainty.  Given the pervasiveness of...
      Supervisor:     Dr Michelle Lazarus  
  
  Pregnancy is a high risk window for accelerated weight gain and adverse lifestyle behaviours, leading to increased risk of complications. Women from...
      Supervisor:     Assoc Prof. Cheryce Harrison  
  
  Project background and aims: 
Mobile phone telecommunication is the main sources of personal radiofrequency-electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure...
      Supervisor:     Dr Geza Benke  
  
  Study Overview:
This research focuses on children undergoing orchidopexy at two prominent hospitals in Victoria: Monash Children's Hospital and...
      Supervisor:     A/Prof Kiarash Taghavi  
  
  Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most common, and a potentially curable, cause of hypertension, estimated to affect 5-10% of all hypertensive...
      Supervisor:     A/Prof Jun Yang  
  
  This PhD will evaluate the costs and benefits of alternative models of care for trans youth and children. The project is part of a larger funded...
      Supervisor:     Professor Cathy Mihalopoulos  
  
  Since highly effective treatments for hepatitis C (HCV) became available in Australia in 2016, elimination of the disease is now a realistic...
      Supervisor:     Dr Nick Scott  
  
  This research endeavor centers on evaluating the implementation of guideline recommendations for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), a condition that...
      Supervisor:     Dr Chau Thien Tay (Jillian)  
  
  Despite the significant burden of maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide, maternal medicine remains under-researched compared to other fields....
      Supervisor:     Dr Annie McDougall  
  
  The World Health Organisation (WHO) Labour Care Guide (LCG) was developed to promote women-centred care while maintaining effective monitoring during...
      Supervisor:     Dr Maureen Makama  
  
  Our team has developed the Therapist-assisted Online Parenting Strategies (TOPS) program and found it to show promising benefits for parents of...
      Supervisor:     Professor Marie Yap  
  
  Stress and the ways that medical professional deal with it has received a renewed interest in recent times
With novel wearable technology the stress...
      Supervisor:     Professor Ram Nataraja  
  
  Evaluation of a stress reduction programme for active surgeons using wearable technology.
      Supervisor:     Professor Julian Smith  
  
  