Pathways, policies and prevention: better outcomes for western Australian children. This project will provide new knowledge to inform and enable future policy and prevention strategies for improving child health and wellbeing. The collaboration between researchers and policy makers across 11 government departments will deliver a new evidence base for understanding child, family and community level factors that increase or reduce vulnerability to poor outcomes through the utilisation of cross-sec ....Pathways, policies and prevention: better outcomes for western Australian children. This project will provide new knowledge to inform and enable future policy and prevention strategies for improving child health and wellbeing. The collaboration between researchers and policy makers across 11 government departments will deliver a new evidence base for understanding child, family and community level factors that increase or reduce vulnerability to poor outcomes through the utilisation of cross-sectoral population data. This collaboration will inform whole of government intervention and prevention strategies to improve outcomes, as well as evaluate and monitor existing initiatives. This project will provide a model for population-based research and policy development both nationally and internationally.Read moreRead less
Understanding individual, workplace and system level influences on return to work in a changing Australian labour market. This project will identify where challenges arise in return to work after a work-related injury or illness for older workers and people with mental stress claims. The results of this project will help form the basis of policy and program changes to address these issues and enable these groups of workers to have better health and economic outcomes.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE120101580
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$375,000.00
Summary
The impact of the ageing workforce on work injury and compensation systems in Australia. This project seeks to better understand important questions related to work injury and its consequences within the context of the ageing Australian labour market. These include understanding how occupational and age-related factors impact on the risk of work injury and if the relationship between age and recovery and safe return to work after injury.
Trajectories and turning points for women's reproductive health. This project will take a whole life perspective to investigate women’s reproductive health. It uses data from more than 150,000 women in 10 cohort studies across six nations. Findings will advance our understanding of reproductive health and will support a more tailored approach to women’s health policy and strategies for healthy ageing.
Development of an 'ageing household' model for assessing medium to long-term vaccine impact in populations. As birth rates in developed and newly industrialising countries fall, so too do the number of households containing children, with implications for the spread of infections in families. We aim to study the influence of this phenomenon on the risk of common childhood infections, and the length of time that vaccines given in infancy will protect.