Research Projects
This project aims to understand the health benefits of residential greenness on human health.
Supervisor: Professor Yuming Guo
Cognitive resilience refers to the capacity to maintain high cognition despite neuropathological burden. It reflects the level of brain resilience...
Supervisor: Professor Joanne Ryan
Workers' compensation is a form of insurance to cover employees if they are injured at work or become sick due to their work. A key goal of...
Supervisor: Dr Shannon Gray
Recent and emerging technologies have major implications for women's safety. Some of these advancements, such as apps and devices designed to...
Supervisor: Dr Reena
Workers’ compensation schemes in Australia fund any ‘reasonable and necessary service’ for injured workers with accepted claims. Most research to-...
Supervisor: Dr Michael Di Donato
International and some local studies suggest women are less likely to receive bystander CPR when experiencing an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. This...
Supervisor: Professor Janet Bray
GP supervisors play a vital role in training the next generation of doctors, yet recruiting and retaining supervisors is an ongoing challenge. By...
Supervisor: Dr Kimberley Yew
Most behavioural and health risk research focuses on individual characteristics, ignoring the potential effects of social networks. For example, a...
Supervisor: Doctor Rachel Sacks-Davis
Health economists use discrete choice experiments and a range of other stated preference techniques to explore preferences and choice behaviour...
Supervisor: Dr Jemimah Ride
The Myeloma and Related Diseases Registry (MRDR) is an internationally-recognised clinical quality database holding demographic, diagnostic,...
Supervisor: Dr Elizabeth Moore
Background:
Informal settlements are home to more than a billion people. This number is growing annually in low and middle-income countries such as...
Supervisor: Dr Rebekah Henry
If you are interested in research on physical activity and sedentary behaviour and their impact on health in adults/older adults, please get in touch...
Supervisor: Prof Danijela Gasevic
The COVCan study aims to evaluate the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on cancer management at The Alfred Hospital.
Background:
Cancer patients are...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Robert Stirling
General practice is pivotal in the management of care for patients across the lifespan. General practice represents an ideal setting where...
Supervisor: Dr Sharon James
Hip osteoarthritis (OA) is a major cause of pain and disability with no treatment that affects progression of disease. The prevalence of hip OA is...
Supervisor: Dr Yuanyuan Wang
The EXCEL Partnership represents a novel, coordinated effort to create a high-quality, detailed, prospective registry of patients...
Supervisor: Professor Carol Hodgson
Diabetes represents the fastest growing chronic disease in Australia, with a recent estimate of around 280 Australians developing diabetes each day....
Supervisor: Dr Ella Zomer
This project, which has the flexibility to choose from a variety of potential exposures, aims to examine the relationship between paramedic...
Supervisor: Ziad Nehme
Pre-eclampsia is a leading cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite its significance, multiple definitions of pre-...
Supervisor: Dr Annie McDougall
Viral hepatitis is responsible for more deaths globally than HIV and malaria, with hepatitis C virus (HCV) accounting for a third of viral hepatitis...
Supervisor: Doctor Rachel Sacks-Davis