Achieving health equity

About
People
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About

The burden of disease falls unevenly in populations, our research seeks to decrease these health inequalities.

These disparities are visible in Australia and throughout the world, including Indigenous populations, and many people living in low and middle income countries.

These groups are disproportionately affected by infectious and chronic diseases, lack of services, conflict and natural disasters.

Our research covers studies measuring occurrence of behavioural risk factor and disease, the social and cultural causes of health inequalities, testing interventions to reduce behavioural risk factors and improve disease control, and evaluations of health services and emergency responses.

People

Academic staff

Dr Jenny Welsh

Research Fellow
Associate Professor Kamalini Lokuge

Senior Fellow
Associate Professor Grace Joshy

Senior Fellow
Associate Professor Ray Lovett

Program Leader - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program
Dr Ellie Paige

Fellow
Dr Kinley Wangdi

Fellow
Dr Tinh (Jimmy) Doan

Research Fellow
Dr Anne Parkinson

Research Fellow
Dr Jane Desborough

Senior Research Fellow
Dr Katie Thurber

Fellow
Dr Matthew Kelly

Fellow
Professor Darren Gray

Deputy Director, NCEPH, Head, Department of Global Health, Head, NHMRC Research Fellow
Professor Emily Banks

Professor
Professor Rosemary Korda

Professor

Professional staff

Mr Lachlan Russell

Executive Officer - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program
Ms Jan Chapman

Mayi Kuwayu Study Manager - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program

Visiting staff

Professor Colleen Lau

Honorary Professor
Associate Professor Susana Vaz Nery

Honorary Associate Professor
Associate Professor Tambri Housen

Honorary Associate Professor
Dr Jill Guthrie (Wiradjuri)

Campus Visitor
Professor Robyn Lucas

Emeritus Professor

Student

Kai Hodgkin

PhD Candidate
Polly Wallace

PhD Candidate

Groups

Projects

Project	Status
(S)WASH-D for WORMS	Completed
A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial of Implementation of ‘The Patient Enablement Model’	Current
A systematic review of the literature examining the relative efficacy of peridischarge strategies to reduce unplanned 30-day readmission rates after knee and hip arthroplasty	Current
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander alcohol and tobacco control	Current
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander chronic disease management models	Potential
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural determinants of health and wellbeing	Potential
Absolute Risk Approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cardiovascular Disease	Current
Addressing the hour-glass ceiling: New case for action on gender equality	Current
Ageing Health and Wellbeing in China and India	Completed
Ageing-in-Place for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities	Current
Anaemia among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and women in Australia: Assessing risk factors and control strategy	Current
Barriers to and enablers of participating in the NBCSP among migrant	Current
Building capacity for evidence-based health development in Indonesia	Current
Bushfire smoke and health protection	Current
Cancer survivorship	Potential
Cancer survivorship: large-scale data on person-centred outcomes	Current
Cardiovascular disease: risk factors, outcomes and prevention.	Current
Centre of Research Excellence in Medicines and Ageing (CREMA)	Current
Chronic disease and healthy ageing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including tobacco	Current
Comparative performance of migrant vs non-migrant doctors in OECD countries: a systematic review	Current
Conquering schistosomiasis in China – the last mile (QIMR)	Current
CVD risk, prevention and implementation	Current
Developing methods to measure and monitor health inequalities using large-scale, linked data	Current
Developing new measures of socioeconomic status for practice and policy	Current
Developing technologies to support patients’ transition from acute to primary care: enabling orthopaedic patients and preventing unplanned 30-day readmissions.	Current
Does environmental change drive the spatiotemporal transmission dynamics of Echinococcus spp. in Ningxia, China?	Current
Effectiveness of interventions for the prevention and treatment of early childhood lower respiratory tract infections/pneumonia in low income countries	Potential
Enhancing chronic disease screening for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples	Current
Experiences and impacts of discrimination among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults in Australia	Current
Exploring the Potential of Justice Reinvestment in Cowra - Community Report	Completed
Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children	Current
Identifying determinants of childhood primary health care coverage and uptake in humanitarian crises	Potential
Improving stated preference methods for measuring health gains in vulnerable populations for use in economic evaluation	Current
Large-scale data to improve Aboriginal child health: seeding success and beyond	Completed
Measuring inequalities in mortality	Current
Measuring the financial burden of tuberculosis in the Asia-Pacific region	Current
Migrants and Health system literacy	Current
MS service availablity and patterns of care in the ACT region	Current
Multiple causes of death and their contribution to population attributable fractions	Potential
Multiple imputation algorithms for dealing with longitudinal panel data	Potential
Nutrition in rural Bali and Central Java	Current
Outcomes of primary healthcare use for depression and anxiety	Completed
Pharmacoepidemiology and chronic disease	Current
Reducing family violence among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities	Current
Risk factors for malnutrition in resource-poor countries	Potential
Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) seeks regular medical and public health students to conduct research on a range of public health and aeromedical/emergency medicine topics.	Completed
Sleep quality rating and mental health	Current
Smoking among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults: health impacts, associated factors, and trends over time	Current
Smoking and health: large scale data on important outcomes	Current
Social engagement and workforce participation among cancer survivors	Potential
Social security systems in relation to healthcare cost and utilisation, health status, and health behaviours in different populations in China and Australia	Current
Social, cultural and health service determinants of adolescent family planning uptake in humanitarian crises	Potential
Stated preference methods for exploring health preference and decision making heterogeneity in complex health interventions and decisions	Current
Study of Environment on Aboriginal Resilience and Child Health	Current
Surveillance and Monitoring to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis from the Samoan Islands	Completed
Systematic review of Bayesian network decision support tools in clinical medicine and/or public health	Completed
Tackling Indigenous Smoking	Current
Thai Health-Risk Transition Project	Current
The Australian tuberculosis risk factor survey	Current
The effect of goals on participation of exercise and nutrition programs	Current
The effectiveness, acceptability and cost effectiveness of the 'BALatrine'	Current
The Magic Glasses Research Programme	Current
Understanding information needs about COVID-19 vaccines and the vaccination program among migrants in Australia	Current
Variation in CVD risk, incidence, care and outcomes	Current
Variation in fatal burden of disease, preventive CVD care and end-of-life care	Current
WASH for WORMS	Current
Work characteristics, major life events, shocks to health, sleep quality and mental health	Current
Work, nutrition, sleep, exercise inequality, and health outcomes	Current
Working longer, staying healthy and keeping productive	Current
Working time and type of work, and impact on workers' sleep	Current