Monitoring And Improving The Health Of Justice-involved Populations: A Public Health Priority
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$713,517.00
Summary
The prison system serves as a filter for the most disadvantaged and unwell members of our community. Prisons provide a rare opportunity to initiate health care for these individuals, but health gains achieved in custody are usually lost after return to the community. The aims of this Fellowship are to (a) understand the health care needs of justice-involved people, (b) develop effective, affordable interventions to meet these needs; and (c) translate the findings of this research into policy.
Using Healthcare Wisely: Psychosocial Interventions To Reduce Unnecessary Testing And Treatment
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$763,845.00
Summary
Overuse of healthcare (use of unnecessary tests and treatments) is harming patients and diverting scarce health resources from where they are most needed. Effective communication of the problem to the public, patients, clinicians and policymakers is a prerequisite for behaviour change. This fellowship will develop a suite of communication-based interventions to reduce overuse and build a multidisciplinary workforce of researchers to address this urgent problem facing health systems globally.
Right Person, Right Treatment, Right Time: Engaging Comorbid Populations With EHealth Interventions Across The Lifespan
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$622,655.00
Summary
I lead an innovative research program that is internationally recognised for its impact, research quality, and significant translational and commercial value. My work focuses on areas of critical need; increasing the evidence base and clinical translation of treatments for co-occurring (comorbid) mental and physical disorders. Over the next 5 years, I will focus on developing evidence to better match people with treatment, so that the right person receives the right treatment at the right time.
Optimising Personalised Care, At Scale, For Young People With Emerging Mood Disorders
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$951,005.00
Summary
New digital technologies, linked to specialist expertise, can bring highly-personalised mental health care to large numbers of young Australians, early in the course of major anxiety, mood or psychotic disorders. Widely accessible and optimized early intervention services will be evaluated not only in terms of their capacity to relieve symptoms and reduce self-harm or suicidal behaviour, but also enhance longer-term social, economic and education participation and physical health outcomes.
Addressing Evidence-practice Gaps To Improve Maternal And Child Health Outcomes In Vulnerable Populations
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$622,655.00
Summary
The overall goal of this fellowship program is to contribute to ‘closing the gap’ in maternal and child health outcomes in Indigenous, refugee and other vulnerable and socially disadvantaged population groups by working at the interface of policy, health services and community to co-design and implement policy-relevant research needed to achieve sustained improvements in maternal and child health outcomes.
A Translational Model For Indigenous Mental Health
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$949,893.00
Summary
This Fellowship will be supporting research into indigenous psychosocial wellbeing, as well as the psychological health of refugees and people living in post-conflict settings.
The proposed program of research consists of (i) conducting a new trial to examine feasible and relatively low-cost physical activity promotion programs for adults with pre-diabetes; (ii) completing a series of existing major-funded studies relating to health promotion and education programs to promote physical activity; and (iii) I will serve as the Director for the University of Newcastle’s recently-funded Priority Research Centre in Physical Activity and Nutrition.
Innovative Health Programs To Reduce Inequality In Heart Disease
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$876,005.00
Summary
As part of his Senior NHMRC Fellowship, Prof Simon Stewart, a world-renowned health services researcher, will lead an internationally linked team of researchers from a broad range of health disciplines to undertake a program of research designed to improve the lives of those most vulnerable to heart disease and poor health outcomes. His program of research will focus on Indigenous Australians, patients with complex forms of heart disease and urban African communities in economic transition.
I am a health economist at the George Institute for Global Health. My application will enable me to lead a program of research in three major themes, involving numerous collaborations in Australia and overseas: 1) the economic impact of chronic illness on households; 2) community preferences in health care and; 3) cost effectiveness studies. The program also includes policy engagement and significant training and development in health economics – an area of recognised skills shortage.