Defining Optimal Strategies For Sustained Control Of Infectious Diseases
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$763,845.00
Summary
My work helps us understand how infections spread between people, to work out the most effective use of vaccines and other protective measures. This fellowship will support research into the ways large family size, poor health care access, social connections and the environment increase infection risk in settings of poverty. We will find better ways to prevent infectious diseases in the populations worst affected, including Indigenous Australians and people living in low-income countries.
Chronic Disease Epidemiology In Different Populations: Risk Factors, Detection And Prevention
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$621,458.00
Summary
To investigate causes, detection and prevention of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and kidney disease in Aboriginal and international populations, I will maintain a long-term cohort with a 20-year follow-up in Aboriginal people and to analyse several large repeated cross-sectional data collected over 25 years in China. For the next 5 years, I will continue to to provide critical epidemiological evidence for the development of health policies and clinical guidelines related to chronic diseases ....To investigate causes, detection and prevention of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and kidney disease in Aboriginal and international populations, I will maintain a long-term cohort with a 20-year follow-up in Aboriginal people and to analyse several large repeated cross-sectional data collected over 25 years in China. For the next 5 years, I will continue to to provide critical epidemiological evidence for the development of health policies and clinical guidelines related to chronic diseases in different populations.Read moreRead less
Although the major risk factors for cardiovascular diseases have been known for decades, and modern-day treatment is much advanced, the importance of these diseases persists, such that they remain the number one killer in Australia. This suggests that more can be done to correctly identify those at high and moderate risk of future disease, so as to optimize advice and medical treatment. This project will use the best evidence available to develop new methods of risk prediction and prevention.
I am an epidemiologist using record linkage to investigate the causes and consequences of developmental disabilities such as birth defects, intellectual disability and autism and to identify possibilities for their prevention and amelioration.
Building Urban Planning And Health Evidence To Inform Policy And Practice That Creates Healthy, Liveable And Equitable Communities Designed To Prevent Non-communicable Diseases
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$851,980.00
Summary
City planning directly and indirectly affects the health of residents. For example, ‘affordable’ housing on the urban fringe typically has poor access to public transport, shops and services. This increases motor vehicle dependency and time spent driving which increases levels of physical inactivity, sedentariness, obesity, social isolation and air pollution. This research focuses on how to build communities that promote health and wellbeing in residents.
The Australian Health Inequalities Research Program (AHIRP)
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$601,484.00
Summary
This research proposal focuses on the monitoring and surveillance of health inequalities in Australia, the measurement and collection of socioeconomic data, improving our knowledge and understanding of health inequalities, investigating policies and interventions to reduce health inequalities, and strengthening Australia’s research capacity and infrastructure as these relate to health inequalities.
I am an epidemiologist investigating: 1) the frequency, pathogenesis, risk factors and impacts of common age-related eye disease, particularly focused on the four leading causes of blindness: age-related macular degeneration, cataract, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy; 2) the potential for screening and clinical diagnostic value of retinal imaging and retinal vascular signs as predictors of major systemic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Diabetes And Obesity: From Benchtop To Public Health
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$705,501.00
Summary
Obesity. Novel factors, not related to food intake or physical activity, will be explored as possible causes of obesity. The obesity paradox, in which overweight is associated with reduced mortality, will be examined. Diabetes treatment. Methods will be developed to predict which is the right drug for each individual patient. A study will test the use of nurse-led clinics. A novel insulin delivery mechanism will be developed. Novel causes and consequences of diabetes will be explored.
New Technologies To Reduce The Population Burden Of Sexually Transmitted Infections
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$772,605.00
Summary
I propose a five year program of public health research on the evaluation of innovative technologies to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and their adverse consequences in populations at highest risk; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, youth, men who have sex with men and people in high STI-burden resource-limited countries. My research over the next five years will lead to substantial improvements in the health of people at greatest risk of STIs.
Large Scale Data For Common, Potentially Modifiable Causes Of Morbidity And Mortality
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$761,656.00
Summary
Large-scale cohort studies, that follow the health of a large proportion of the general population over time, have enormous potential to inform disease prevention and the optimal use of health services. The planned research will use large scale cohort study data, linked to data on health outcomes and use of health services to provide much needed evidence on Indigenous health, safety of medicines and healthy ageing.