Research Projects
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
Schizophrenia is a common yet poorly understood mental illness with a strong genetic link. While large studies have identified some common genetic...
Supervisor: Dr Sathish Periyasamy
We have positions available for up to two PhD students next year on the SIM Study (Shiftworker Individualised Modelling). Shorter projects, including...
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Phillips
Transplantation is a life-saving procedure for patients with end-stage organ disease, but requires life-long immunosuppressive medications to prevent...
Supervisor: Brad Gardiner
**New Projects On Offer for 2025**
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an organ-specific autoimmune disease that leads to the destruction of pancreatic islet...
Supervisor: Professor Sam El-Osta
The food intake of the mother during gestation and the breastfeeding period has far-reaching consequences for the development of the child and their...
Supervisor: Dr. Asolina Braun
Globally, almost 40 million people currently live with HIV infection, which remains a major public health threat. Contemporary responses to HIV have...
Supervisor: Professor Mark Stoove
Project evaluation is crucial in large community projects to assess the implementation method and generalisability and answer questions about the...
Supervisor: Assoc Prof. Cheryce Harrison
Why does the innate immune system, our first line of defence against injury and infection, sometimes drive irreversible lung scarring instead of...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Michelle Tate
Why does the immune system sometimes protect us from influenza, but other times drive the severe lung damage that makes the infection deadly? The...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Michelle Tate
Primary care clinicians including general practitioners, nurse practitioners and practice nurses have a key role in meeting the needs of women’s...
Supervisor: Dr Sharon James
The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) is one of the most important hormonal systems regulating both acute and chronic blood pressure. The main effector...
Supervisor: Professor Robert Widdop
The project seeks to evaluate the integration of SFBT as a communication tool with patients in distress for undergraduate paramedic students. When...
Supervisor: Dr Louise Reynolds
The Epidemiological Modelling Unit (EMU) at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine is a multidisciplinary team that maintains advanced...
Supervisor: A/Prof James Trauer
Local Public Health Units (LPHUs) were established in Victoria in 2020, amid the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gippsland Region Public Health Unit...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Alyce Wilson
We are seeking expressions of interest from talented candidates who wish to apply for a PhD to undertake research enhancing adaptive platform trial (...
Supervisor: Prof Tari Turner