Research Projects
Although health policy should be informed by research evidence, this is often not the case. One reason is that up-to-date, high quality and relevant...
Supervisor: Dr Samantha Chakraborty
Although studies have shown that lifestyle interventions improve disease management and health outcomes, the research community has faced persistent...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Lisa Moran
Are you passionate about improving healthcare through cutting-edge statistical analysis? Join us for an exciting PhD project focused on transforming...
Supervisor: Professor Arul Earnest
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses aim to synthesize all existing evidence on a clinical question. The results of systematic reviews may be biased...
Supervisor: Dr Matthew Page
Currently we have a very good understanding of the processes involved in the development, maintenance and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder...
Supervisor: Dr Laura Jobson
This pre- and post-intervention CQI study will involve development of a multi-modal intervention to improve the management of ED patients with...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Reducing the stillbirth rate is a national health priority. Sadly, in Australia, 6 babies are stillborn every day, amounting to 2000 stillbirths...
Supervisor: Dr Miranda Davies-Tuck
There is very little evidence underpinning treatment recommendations for cardiac arrest following drowning. It is unclear if treatment...
Supervisor: Professor Janet Bray
Our unit has a program of work being undertaken in a broad range of areas:
- delivering palliative care by telehealth and optimising models of care...
Supervisor: Adj Assoc Prof Peter Poon
Are you interested in improving outcomes for the most vulnerable in the community? And have experience or interest in public health, aged care and or...
Supervisor: Dr Katrina Long
Antenatal care (ANC) is typically provided by skilled health-care professionals to ensure the best health conditions for mother and baby during...
Supervisor: Prof Joshua Vogel
reducing preventable morbidity and mortality among mothers and newborns.
However, even where pregnant women are able to reach and utilise health...
Supervisor: Prof Joshua Vogel
Approximately 9000 newborns die in developing countries every day because of asphyxia – 30-50% die on their birthday. Approximately 13% of infants...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Graeme Polglase
Trans and gender diverse (TGD) people have a gender identity that varies from that usually associated with their sex assigned at birth. Many seek to...
Supervisor: Dr Riki Lane
Specialist palliative care services to support the geriatrics settings of care is hypothesised to improve clinical outcomes for patients and their...
Supervisor: Adj Assoc Prof Peter Poon
Vaccines are one of public health’s greatest success stories, remaining our most effective tool for preventing infectious diseases. However, vaccine...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah McGuinness
The primary means of protective immunity coming from vaccines is the formation of long-lived, antibody-producing plasma cells. However, not all...
Supervisor: Dr Marcus Robinson
The laboratory is interested in the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity, in particular pluripotency and the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jose Polo
Uptake of reliable and cost-effective long-acting reversible contraception, such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants, is lower in Australia...
Supervisor: Dr Nadia Lusis