Research Projects
In Australia, 20% of pregnancies occur within the first year of a birth and most are unintended. Unintended pregnancies and short interpregnancy...
Supervisor: Dr Jessica Botfield
This project will explore how women perceive and recognise different forms of reproductive coercion (RC), focusing on explicit, implicit, and tacit...
Supervisor: Professor Danielle Mazza AM
Perceptions of Vaping Cessation Guidelines Amongst General Practitioners and Pharmacists
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are battery powered...
Supervisor: A/Prof Chris Barton
Registered community pharmacists have been able to dispense medical abortion medicines (MS-2 Step) to individuals with a prescription in Australia...
Supervisor: Dr Anisa Assifi
Women require access to postpartum contraception information to enable them to plan for and access contraception after having a baby. Early access to...
Supervisor: Dr Jessica Botfield
Depo Provera is a highly effective long acting reversible contraception administered by a three monthly injection. Internationally, in an attempt to...
Supervisor: Dr Anisa Assifi
This project will explore how reproductive coercion (RC) is discussed on social media, analysing user-generated content to identify key themes and...
Supervisor: Professor Danielle Mazza AM
General practice is pivotal in the management of care for patients across the lifespan. General practice represents an ideal setting where...
Supervisor: Dr Sharon James
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
In Australia, over one in 10 women aged 19–24 years experienced an unintended pregnancy. Disparities exist, with women from culturally and linguistic...
Supervisor: Dr Vera Camoes Costa
Australian women from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds are disproportionately less likely than their Australian-born peers to...
Supervisor: Dr Noushin Arefadib
Community pharmacist have the potential to provide accessible health services to adolescents and the potential to improve adolescent’s access to...
Supervisor: Dr Anisa Assifi
Pharmacists' provision of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services has expanded from mainly dispensing medications to including services...
Supervisor: Dr Anisa Assifi
Asthma affects approximately one in nine Australians and is one of the most common conditions treated in General Practice. In May 2023 a group of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Chris Barton
There is growing concern among respiratory and primary care professionals about the degree of poorly controlled asthma in the community with much of...
Supervisor: A/Prof Chris Barton
GPs have a key role in meeting the needs of women’s reproductive care including pregnancy, termination, contraception and sexual health. In practice...
Supervisor: Dr Sharon James
Once a registered medical practitioner has prescribed medical abortion medicines, also known as MS-2 Step, an individual must access a community...
Supervisor: Dr Anisa Assifi
Our team in the Department of General Practice has access to data from the Building a New Life in Australia study (BNLA). This longitudinal study...
Supervisor: Professor Grant Russell
Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition that affects up to one in seven Australian women by the age of 44. It is a significant public...
Supervisor: Dr Satish Melwani