Research Projects
Heart failure is the commonest cardiovascular cause for hospital admission in people aged >65years. It has become increasingly evident that HF...
Supervisor: Professor David Kaye
There is robust evidence that male involvement improves maternal and newborn health outcomes, particularly in low- and middle-income country settings...
Supervisor: Ms Elizabeth Comrie-Thomson
Paracetamol is the most commonly ingested medication in overdose. Large ingestions may require more treatment. The successful candidate will...
Supervisor: Professor Anselm Wong
In Australia and around the world, demand for ambulance services is growing annually. Understanding the drivers of increasing demand is useful in...
Supervisor: Professor Karen Smith
Nfatc1 is known to be important in regulating how the heart forms in the embryo. Which parts of the genome determine the expression of nfatc1 in the...
Supervisor: Dr. Renee Chow
Current therapies for epilepsy are symptomatic, only suppressing the symptoms (seizures), but do not impact the development or progression of disease...
Supervisor: Dr Pablo Casillas-Espinosa MD, PhD
The Stem Cell Laboratory in the Department of Neuroscience is investigating new treatments for a class of patients that do not respond to mainstream...
Supervisor: Dr. Shahid Javaid
Chronic infectious diseases have a devastating effect on global health. HIV and Plasmodium falciparum both cause chronic disease and have evaded...
Supervisor: Professor Kim Good-Jacobson
Between 2020 and 2023, it is expected that over 130 million electric bikes to be sold worldwide. Growth in urban bicycle use can lead to profound...
Supervisor: Dr Ben Beck
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a chronic mental health disorder affecting approximately 1% of the Australian population. Individuals with...
Supervisor: Dr. Eveline Mu
This project will conduct several economic evaluations of e-health interventions for prevention and treatment of mental disorders. The student will...
Supervisor: Long Le
Work and workplaces play important roles in population mental health but are underutilised as a platform to improve mental health. A key issue for...
Supervisor: Dr Jemimah Ride
Long COVID is a multisystemic condition comprising symptoms that follow an acute infection. The
School of Primary and Allied Health Care (SPAHC)...
Supervisor: Professor Terrence Haines
An audit of analgesia provision in the ED undertaken in 2019 found that time to initial analgesia delivery and monitoring of effect did not meet...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
The megafires of the summer of 2019-20 are a foretaste of the future. Landscape fires will become more common and severe with climate change in...
Supervisor: Professor Michael Abramson
Nearly one in three Australian's lives with a chronic lung disease. People with chronic lung disease experience burdensome symptoms, including...
Supervisor: Dr Narelle Cox
One in three women around the world are estimated to have experienced intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence, two of the most...
Supervisor: Revathi N. Krishna
Infertility is defined as a couple's inability to achieve a successful pregnancy within 12 months of unprotected sexual intercourse. Infertility...
Supervisor: Dr Faizul Jaafar
Circadian clocks generate daily rhythms to enhance the fitness of virtually all living organisms. Disruption of these rhythms has been implicated in...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Andrew Ellisdon
Background: The epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a key developmental process that plays an important role during epithelial tumour...
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Carmichael