What Cost-effective Built Environment Interventions Would Create Healthy, Liveable And Equitable Communities In Australia, And What Would Facilitate These Being Translated Into Policy And Practice?
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,658,832.00
Summary
This CRE involves collaboration between a multi-disciplinary research team across Australia working with policy-makers covering planning, urban design, transport planning and health. It will identify the most cost-effective built environment interventions required to create healthy, liveable, and equitable communities. Factors that influence research findings being translated into urban planning policy and practice will be examined and tools to assist changes to policy and practice developed.
Integrated Community Care For People With Complex Multi-morbidities
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,500,000.00
Summary
The focus of the Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) for Integrated Community Care for People with Complex Multi-morbidities (CRE-CoM) will be on reducing hospitalisation through innovative, high quality, collaborative research of home and community-based service systems, including the development of digital and virtual modes of community-based service delivery.
On TRACK (Teaching, Research And Community Knowledges) : CRE Promoting Brain Health With Older Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$3,000,000.00
Summary
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples experience high rates of dementia at younger ages of onset, having far reaching consequences for the person, their family and their communities. The OnTRACK (Teaching, Research and Community Knowledges) Centre for Research Excellence will generate knowledge about culturally safe approaches to optimise the well being and quality of life of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples at risk of or living with dementia.
Building Research Capacity In Indigenous Australians And Community Controlled Health Services
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,450,234.00
Summary
In addition to building the research capacity of a cohort of Indigenous and non-indigenous researchers based in Northern Australia and Victoria this project will establish a network to promote Indigenous health research and build capacity in three Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services already involved in Indigenous and population health research and in employees within those three Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services. The project will investigate and evaluate models of how U ....In addition to building the research capacity of a cohort of Indigenous and non-indigenous researchers based in Northern Australia and Victoria this project will establish a network to promote Indigenous health research and build capacity in three Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services already involved in Indigenous and population health research and in employees within those three Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services. The project will investigate and evaluate models of how Universities can best build research capacity in Indigenous population health researchers.Read moreRead less
Centre Of Research Excellence In Infectious Diseases Modelling To Inform Public Health Policy
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,600,064.00
Summary
Infectious diseases pose a global challenge, with substantial human and economic costs. Mathematical models provide valuable frameworks to assess likely benefits of interventions to control infection spread and burden. Leveraging existing NHMRC support, we will expand modeling capability to inform infectious disease control policy in Australia and our region. Focus areas include vaccine preventable disease, respiratory viruses and emerging pathogens, supported by innovative methods development.
Australian Centre For Cannabinoid Clinical And Research Excellence (ACRE): Quality And Safety In The Implementation Of Medicinal Cannabis Use In The Community
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,498,471.00
Summary
Australia has a world-first opportunity to develop rigorous medical cannabis research based on quality clinical and environmental science that tests and selects cannabis constituents affecting health and sickness. It will be able to design and coordinate dose and formulation-finding studies to assess safety and efficacy of different cannabinoids. This information will enable registration of products for health that have been thoroughly researched and tested to levels acceptable for public use.
Centre Of Research Excellence In Disability And Health
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,487,345.00
Summary
The first research centre of its kind internationally, the CRE in Disability and Health brings together a first-rate team of national and international researchers with influential stakeholders. We will create the evidence needed to guide social and health policy reform with the explicit intent of improving the health of working age disabled Australians. We will produce an exceptional research workforce equipped to make large-scale, ongoing contributions to the field of disability and health.
Reducing The Effects Of Antenatal Alcohol On Child Health (REAACH)
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,497,397.00
Summary
Use of alcohol in pregnancy can affect the developing baby and cause Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). Children with FASD have lifelong brain injury that can lead to poor school performance, poor mental health and trouble with the law. This CRE builds on our strong background in research and community engagement to improve FASD prevention, diagnosis and treatment across Australia.
A Centre For Research Excellence In Cerebral Palsy (CRE-CP)
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,622,042.00
Summary
Cerebral palsy is the most common physical disability in childhood. Our objective is to bring about a radical improvement in the treatment of individuals with cerebral palsy, both children and adults, and to determine better ways to assist their families. Emphasis will be placed on early detection of health issues and rigorous evaluation of management options. We will train more researchers and ensure that all the knowledge generated is made available to families and health care professionals.
Centre For Research Excellence In Childhood Language
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,485,324.00
Summary
Although most children acquire speech and language skills comparatively effortlessly, it has become increasingly apparent that many do not. More importantly, this sizeable group accounts for great subsequent population health, social and economic burden. Research in the field has been underfunded and fragmented, resulting in evidence gaps, limited capacity, and disparate guidance for policy-makers. We will address these issues, acting as a vehicle and an ongoing catalyst for internationally-comp ....Although most children acquire speech and language skills comparatively effortlessly, it has become increasingly apparent that many do not. More importantly, this sizeable group accounts for great subsequent population health, social and economic burden. Research in the field has been underfunded and fragmented, resulting in evidence gaps, limited capacity, and disparate guidance for policy-makers. We will address these issues, acting as a vehicle and an ongoing catalyst for internationally-competitive research.Read moreRead less