In Australia, over 2000 families suffer the tragedy of stillbirth each year. By building on our achievements of the first Stillbirth CRE rapidly translating new research into maternity care, we will reduce stillbirth rates by 20%, and reduce inequities in stillbirth rates by Australia by 2025. We also anticipate a reduction in adverse neonatal outcomes. When stillbirth or neonatal death does occur, our research aims to ensure that all women and families receive optimal care.
PRE-EMPT: Prediction Of Early Mental Disorder And Preventive Treatment - Centre Of Research Excellence
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,500,000.00
Summary
Mental health clinicians currently do not have the means to predict which young people with emerging symptoms are most at risk of progressing to serious mental illness. This CRE will help us better understand how mental illnesses develop, identify the risk and protective factors, and introduce tools for use in clinical practice to better predict onset of serious mental illness. This will help with providing and further developing early treatments to delay or prevent the onset of mental illness.
NHMRC Centre Of Research Excellence For Better Outcomes In Coronary Artery Disease
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,500,000.00
Summary
One Australian suffers a heart attack every 10 min, many without any prior warning. What contributes to atherosclerosis beyond traditional risk factors, and how to manage patients that suffer a heart attack despite no risk factors is not well known. This CRE will establish new biomarkers and clinical pathways for detection of subclinical atherosclerosis as well as secondary prevention strategies whilst fostering the cardiovascular research leaders of the future.
PROBE-NET: The Progression Of Barrett's Esophagus To Cancer Network
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,465,844.00
Summary
This application brings together the seven major research teams in Australia with expertise in oesophageal neoplasia to form a multi-state, multi-disciplinary Centre for Research Excellence. All of the nodes have worked together collaboratively for the past 4 years, pooling their expertise in surgery, gastroenterology, endoscopy, epidemiology, biostatistics, basic science, health policy and translational research. Our vision is to develop evidence-based strategies for reducing the burden of oeso ....This application brings together the seven major research teams in Australia with expertise in oesophageal neoplasia to form a multi-state, multi-disciplinary Centre for Research Excellence. All of the nodes have worked together collaboratively for the past 4 years, pooling their expertise in surgery, gastroenterology, endoscopy, epidemiology, biostatistics, basic science, health policy and translational research. Our vision is to develop evidence-based strategies for reducing the burden of oesophageal neoplasia.Read moreRead less
Bowel cancer, the second most diagnosed and cause of cancer death is preventable. Low risk people need no screening or just inexpensive fecal occult blood tests. Increased risk people need the more expensive and invasive colonoscopies. There is overuse of colonoscopy by those at low risk and underuse by those at high risk. Our Centre brings together scientists, epidemiologists and clinicians to develop a personalised risk tool and methods to implement the tool to increase appropriate screening.
Centre For Research Excellence In Critical Infectious Diseases
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,623,406.00
Summary
Severe infection kills millions of people every year, but clinicians and policy makers rarely get the information they need in time to make potentially life-saving decisions about infection. We will apply modern genomics and information systems to better understand infection threats in critical care environments and explore the ethical and medicolegal aspects that may either facilitate or present barriers to important research and time-critical decision making.
Good Spirit Good Life: Better Health And Wellbeing For Older Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Australians
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,500,000.00
Summary
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are living to older ages, with numbers of older people expected to double by 2026. Respecting and supporting this population to age well is vital, yet the challenges and impacts of meeting these needs are poorly understood. This world first Good Spirit Good Life Centre for Research Excellence, will deliver the evidence needed to improve health and wellbeing of this group and build the capability of services and systems that support them as they age.
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.
Centre Of Research Excellence On Social Determinants Of Health Equity (CRESDHE): Policy Research On The Social Determinants Of Health Equity
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,585,039.00
Summary
This research will investigate and develop methods to assess how Australian governments’ policy actions across a range of areas interact to affect health and its distribution among different social groups. It will provide evidence on how political and policy processes could function more effectively to improve health and its distribution in Australia. It will have a particular focus on ways to improve health for Indigenous Australians.
Centre Of Research Excellence In Improving Health Services For Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Children
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,629,464.00
Summary
Our CRE aim is to improve health outcomes in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. We provide new knowledge about health services Aboriginal children should receive. We strengthen primary care and hospital services. We improve understanding; test new models; ensure translation into policy and build capacity. We are from national and international Aboriginal, non government and mainstream organisations. We generate findings that are generalisable to health systems in Australia and inter ....Our CRE aim is to improve health outcomes in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. We provide new knowledge about health services Aboriginal children should receive. We strengthen primary care and hospital services. We improve understanding; test new models; ensure translation into policy and build capacity. We are from national and international Aboriginal, non government and mainstream organisations. We generate findings that are generalisable to health systems in Australia and internationally.Read moreRead less