Research Projects
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
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
Accurate identification of stroke patients is crucial to understanding the condition and improving quality of care and patient outcomes. Researchers...
Supervisor: Prof Monique Kilkenny
Opportunities exist to be involved in this exciting project on innovative digital monitoring devices for neonates. The project will involve...
Supervisor: A/Prof Atul Malhotra
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes cognitive and behavioural changes that impact independence, work, relationships and mental health. The larger...
Supervisor: Dr Marina Downing
In Feb 2022 Monash Health introduced a new suspected MI pathway. Patients follow one of four streams depending on pre-hospital symptom duration/onset...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Evaluation of treatment outcomes following aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: a prospective audit
Supervisor: Professor Julian Smith
Ideal body size has changed over time. Blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe was idolised in the 1950’s, whereas the 1990’s saw the idolisation of heroin...
Supervisor: Dr Nicole Thomas
Responding to the climate crisis and other planetary health problems represents one of the greatest challenges of our time. Based at the Australian...
Supervisor: Dr Miranda Cumpston
Evidence-based practice is often coined as an important factor to inform clinical practice of new health professional graduates. However, the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Ted Brown
A PhD project to study the developmental biology and evolution of fin musculature using zebrafish and basal gnathastome models including shark.
Supervisor: Professor Peter Currie