Research Projects
Communities are not homogenous. While residents may share a geographical connection, they can have diverse experiences in their locales. Population-...
Supervisor: Revathi N. Krishna
If you are interested in research the health economic impacts of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, please get in touch.
There are multiple...
Supervisor: Dr Ella Zomer
The project aims to comprehensively assess the health burden and economic costs of bushfire smoke across Australia. It will accurately quantify the...
Supervisor: Gongbo Chen
Bi-cultural workers—individuals who navigate and integrate two or more cultural identities—play a critical role in multicultural workplaces,...
Supervisor: Dr StellaMay Gwini
HealthPathways is a free, online portal that has been established in different regions in each state and territory in Australia to provide evidence-...
Supervisor: Dr Jessica Botfield
This is part of a program of research into health aging and understanding how we can prolong healthspan (life years lived in good health), and reduce...
Supervisor: Professor Joanne Ryan
People usually begin to lose some degree of height around the age of 40 and their rate of decline in height tends to increase with age. Such height...
Supervisor: Aung Zaw Zaw Phyo
Uptake of reliable and cost-effective long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants, is lower in...
Supervisor: Dr Nadia Lusis
Uptake of reliable and cost-effective long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants, is lower in...
Supervisor: Dr Nadia Lusis
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Some diagnostic tests and screening are overused and cause overdiagnosis. This can lead to avoidable patient harms and healthcare...
Supervisor: Mr Tomas Rozbroj
A process of primary care renewal is evolving across the developed world. It is increasingly recognised that high performing primary care that has a...
Supervisor: Professor Grant Russell
The project will investigate how the social environment within which primary care patients manage their illness can buffer feelings of stigma and...
Supervisor: A/Prof Chris Barton
Young women aged 18–24 in Australia are increasingly using FemTech tools, such as period trackers and sexual health platforms, to manage their sexual...
Supervisor: Dr. Olena Ivanova
Frailty is a common geriatric syndrome characterized by reduced physiological reserve across multiple health domains that collectively make a person...
Supervisor: Aung Zaw Zaw Phyo
Calls to ambulance for stroke represent approximately 3% of emergency calls. Current versions of emergency calling taking protocol include a Stroke...
Supervisor: Professor Janet Bray
The cornerstone of secondary prevention of heart failure (HF) is identifying high-risk patients for intensive disease management program (DMP)....
Supervisor: Dr Quan Huynh
Bystander CPR more than doubles the chance of survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Recent research suggest the wording used by...
Supervisor: Professor Janet Bray
ASPREE is a completed randomised controlled trial of low-dose aspirin including 19,114 older adults free of cardiovascular disease, dementia and...
Supervisor: Dr Zhen Zhou
The Sustainable Mobility & Safety Research Group vision is to make active and sustainable modes of transport, such as bike riding and walking,...
Supervisor: Lauren Pearson
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