Research Projects
Project Overview:
Stroke is common, affecting an estimated 1 in 4 people in their lifetime - but stroke is also highly preventable. Of the 38,000...
Supervisor: Dr Rosanne Freak-Poli
People with multiple sclerosis (MS) are known to do less exercise and take more medications for disease and symptom management that are known to be...
Supervisor: Dr Ayse Zengin
Hospital incident review committees accept that it is easy to predict avoidable patient harm with the benefit of hindsight. Imagine if bedside...
Supervisor: Associate Professor Cliff Connell
The cornerstone of secondary prevention of heart failure (HF) is identifying high-risk patients for intensive disease management program (DMP)....
Supervisor: Dr Quan Huynh
Our vision, partnering with Jimple (https://jimple.io/), is to develop individually tailored intervention for post-stroke aphasia to improve each...
Supervisor: Professor Thanh Phan
People frequently struggle to understand and remember information given to them by health providers. In focus groups and interviews, patients have...
Supervisor: Dr Alison Beauchamp
Bystander CPR more than doubles the chance of survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Recent research suggest the wording used by...
Supervisor: Professor Janet Bray
Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is a serious, but common pregnancy complication, describing the infant that is born very small due to failure to...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Suzanne Miller
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) is a common complication affecting 9-26% of pregnancies worldwide. GDM doubles the risk of cardiovascular disease...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jacqueline Boyle
ASPREE is a completed randomised controlled trial of low-dose aspirin including 19,114 older adults free of cardiovascular disease, dementia and...
Supervisor: Dr Zhen Zhou
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrinopathy of women of reproductive age. It is associated with a myriad of multi-systemic...
Supervisor: Dr Chau Thien Tay (Jillian)
Description
BACKGROUND: Lifestyle during pregnancy has significant impact on the health and well-being of both the mother and the baby. Taking...
Supervisor: Professor Helena Teede
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a risk factor for adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes. However, it is not universally recognised as a risk...
Supervisor: Dr Mahnaz Bahri Khomami
The Sustainable Mobility & Safety Research Group vision is to make active and sustainable modes of transport, such as bike riding and walking,...
Supervisor: Lauren Pearson
We lead the National Health and Medical Research Council Centre for Research Excellence on Women's Reproductive Health and the International...
Supervisor: Professor Helena Teede
Lupus nephritis is an immune complex glomerulonephritis (a form of kidney inflammation with autoimmunity) that constitutes one of the most severe...
Supervisor: Doctor Rangi Kandane-Rathnayake
Although studies have shown that lifestyle interventions improve disease management and health outcomes, the research community has faced persistent...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Lisa Moran
Providing high-quality reproductive health information for pregnant women will promote optimal preconception health literacy for future pregnancies...
Supervisor: Dr Asvini Subasinghe
Are you passionate about improving healthcare through cutting-edge statistical analysis? Join us for an exciting PhD project focused on transforming...
Supervisor: Professor Arul Earnest
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses aim to synthesize all existing evidence on a clinical question. The results of systematic reviews may be biased...
Supervisor: Dr Matthew Page