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Centre Of Research Excellence In Prehospital Emergency Care
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,499,626.00
Summary
The Prehospital Emergency Care - Centre for Research Excellence (PEC-CRE) will build capacity in prehospital research in Australia through the conduct of collaborative research projects between academic researchers, clinicians and ambulance service providers. The overarching goal of the PEC-CRE will be to strengthen the evidence base underpinning prehospital emergency care policy and practice, to ensure that ambulance patients receive ‘the right care, in the right place, at the right time’.
Chronic Kidney Disease Centre Of Research Excellence
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,606,487.00
Summary
The Chronic Kidney Disease Centre of Research Excellence (CKD.CRE) is an Australian first, dedicated to the improvement of CKD knowledge and management across the health care spectrum. With five research streams, the CKD.CRE will establish a national surveillance network, support improved detection in primary care, inform on renal supportive care and on rationalised resource utilisation. In addition, the CKD.CRE will conduct biomarker research and will establish Australia’s first CKD BioBank.
Centre For Research Excellence In Reducing Healthcare Associated Infection
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,495,795.00
Summary
Each year in Australia 180,000 patients suffer a healthcare associated infection. Risk can be reduced with relatively simple technology but substantial costs arise with system wide adoption and monitoring. The economic paradigm is that funds can be invested for infection reduction to save costs and lives. The CRE will reveal the cost-effectiveness of infection control programmes and show health services decision-makers how to improve patient outcomes, save resources and save lives.
Suicide is the most common cause of death in Australians aged 15-44. This ‘Centre for Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention’ aims to bring together leading experts in Australia and New Zealand to undertake the research work needed to determine the best way to deliver interventions to those at risk, to develop better understanding of the complex pathways that lead to suicide, to encourage help seeking and to prioritise which programs and services should be financially supported by Government.
Stronger Futures CRE: Building Resilience And Breaking Cycles Of Intergenerational Trauma And Social Inequity
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,500,000.00
Summary
The transmission of complex trauma across generations is a global public health and human rights issue. The Stronger Futures CRE will implement a collaborative, multi-stakeholder program of translational research activity to reduce the impacts of intergenerational trauma and family violence within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, refugee and socially disadvantaged families and communities.
Centre Of Research Excellence In Women's Health In The 21st Century
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,297,161.00
Summary
The goals of the Centre of Research Excellence in Women’s Health in the 21st Century are to examine how changes in the health system impact on women’s health and how changes in women’s lives impact on their health and health care needs. This research program will focus on four priority health issues of particular relevance to women: reproductive health, mental health, cardiovascular conditions and musculoskeletal problems; and use data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health.
This CRE aims to build a world-leading, multi-disciplinary research team that aims to have a real impact on finding and implementing policy solutions to the global obesity epidemic. It will support policy makers and public health advocates to create potent and sustained policy change by evaluating potential policy options and their impacts on environments and systems, enhancing policy development and implementation processes, and monitoring the actions of the public and private sectors.
Dental Health Services Research For Improved Oral Health Outcomes
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,641,484.00
Summary
This research will generate new knowledge to improve health outcomes by investigating expenditure and financing of dental care, dental practice performance, and the impact of dental services on oral health outcomes. This is needed for health policy to deliver dental care that promotes good oral health, to identify characteristics of the dental delivery system that deliver productive outputs with good outcomes, and testing oral health outcomes in relation to the type of dental care received.
Centre For Informing Policy In Health With Evidence From Research (CIPHER)
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,614,403.00
Summary
The Productivity Commission has recently said that without evidence, policy makers must fall back on intuition, ideology or conventional wisdom. CIPHER will make an internationally leading contribution to understanding how governments can most easily find and use research evidence. We will test strategies designed to make findings from research more readily available, to increase policy makers skills in using research and to encourage research that is of more immediate use to policy agencies.
Building Public Health Capacity For Complex Questions, Complex Settings Complex Interventions
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,486,195.00
Summary
We describe a program of continuing education and development for postdoctoral staff in the transition from completing a PhD to becoming independent researchers. Their goals - and ours - are that at the end of the program they will initiate their own research programs, as part of a research team and will secure competitive funding to do so. The focus of the application is building capacity across two research groups, with the Lead Applicants (LA's) developing the formal program. Mother and Child ....We describe a program of continuing education and development for postdoctoral staff in the transition from completing a PhD to becoming independent researchers. Their goals - and ours - are that at the end of the program they will initiate their own research programs, as part of a research team and will secure competitive funding to do so. The focus of the application is building capacity across two research groups, with the Lead Applicants (LA's) developing the formal program. Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University and the Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne are sited in Carlton and the LA's have a more than 10 year history of successful collaboration and a strong interest in mothers' and children's health. The applicants have a record of tackling difficult research, including population groups who are often excluded - Indigenous and immigrant women - and addressing difficult questions. The program of research addresses a set of complex problems ranging from intimate partner violence to preterm birth and substance abuse. These come to light in primary care, hospitals or communities. These problems require complex interventions, developed from a broad research base, to be implemented in different settings with diverse designs, from qualitative research to community trials. Multi-level interventions to change policy or practice, and health service and health economic evaluations will also be important aspects. Individual mentoring by LA's will involve specific supervision, mentoring and support of Team Investigators (TI's). There will also be co-mentoring by TI's, personal development and skills development. The research program will build capacity through participation in multidisciplinary research. The importance of research transfer and research translation will be emphasized through lunchtime seminars on public health advocacy, with content and policy component, led by TI's and supported by LA. There will be a national conference allowance for presentation of research findings, with a prior presentation to all staff here for feedback. Workshops will be held by LA's and TI's with established skills in reviewing manuscripts for journals and in editing. The outcomes of this program will be a stronger research capacity, improved research, sound health policy, better health care and improved health.Read moreRead less