Research Projects
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
Between 2020 and 2023, it is expected that over 130 million electric bikes to be sold worldwide. Growth in urban bicycle use can lead to profound...
Supervisor: Dr Ben Beck
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
Long COVID is a multisystemic condition comprising symptoms that follow an acute infection. The
School of Primary and Allied Health Care (SPAHC)...
Supervisor: Professor Terrence Haines
An audit of analgesia provision in the ED undertaken in 2019 found that time to initial analgesia delivery and monitoring of effect did not meet...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
The megafires of the summer of 2019-20 are a foretaste of the future. Landscape fires will become more common and severe with climate change in...
Supervisor: Professor Michael Abramson
Nearly one in three Australian's lives with a chronic lung disease. People with chronic lung disease experience burdensome symptoms, including...
Supervisor: Dr Narelle Cox
A recent publication on the relationship between induction of labour in uncomplicated pregnancies, and birth by caesarean section reports a lower...
Supervisor: Dr Mary-Ann Davey
One in three women around the world are estimated to have experienced intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence, two of the most...
Supervisor: Revathi N. Krishna
Infertility is defined as a couple's inability to achieve a successful pregnancy within 12 months of unprotected sexual intercourse. Infertility...
Supervisor: Dr Faizul Jaafar
Background: The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a key developmental process that plays an important role during epithelial tumour...
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Carmichael