Research Projects
Currently we have a very good understanding of the processes involved in the development, maintenance and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder...
Supervisor: Dr Laura Jobson
This pre- and post-intervention CQI study will involve development of a multi-modal intervention to improve the management of ED patients with...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Reducing the stillbirth rate is a national health priority. Sadly, in Australia, 6 babies are stillborn every day, amounting to 2000 stillbirths...
Supervisor: Dr Miranda Davies-Tuck
There is very little evidence underpinning treatment recommendations for cardiac arrest following drowning. It is unclear if treatment...
Supervisor: Professor Janet Bray
Are you interested in improving outcomes for the most vulnerable in the community? And have experience or interest in public health, aged care and or...
Supervisor: Dr Katrina Long
Antenatal care (ANC) is typically provided by skilled health-care professionals to ensure the best health conditions for mother and baby during...
Supervisor: Prof Joshua Vogel
reducing preventable morbidity and mortality among mothers and newborns.
However, even where pregnant women are able to reach and utilise health...
Supervisor: Prof Joshua Vogel
Approximately 9000 newborns die in developing countries every day because of asphyxia – 30-50% die on their birthday. Approximately 13% of infants...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Graeme Polglase
Trans and gender diverse (TGD) people have a gender identity that varies from that usually associated with their sex assigned at birth. Many seek to...
Supervisor: Dr Riki Lane
Vaccines are one of public health’s greatest success stories, remaining our most effective tool for preventing infectious diseases. However, vaccine...
Supervisor: Dr Sarah McGuinness
The primary means of protective immunity coming from vaccines is the formation of long-lived, antibody-producing plasma cells. However, not all...
Supervisor: Dr Marcus Robinson
The laboratory is interested in the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity, in particular pluripotency and the...
Supervisor: Assoc Professor Jose Polo
We have positions available for up to two PhD students next year on the SIM Study (Shiftworker Individualised Modelling). Shorter projects, including...
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Phillips
Transplantation is a life-saving procedure for patients with end-stage organ disease, but requires life-long immunosuppressive medications to prevent...
Supervisor: Brad Gardiner
**New Projects On Offer for 2025**
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an organ-specific autoimmune disease that leads to the destruction of pancreatic islet...
Supervisor: Professor Sam El-Osta
The food intake of the mother during gestation and the breastfeeding period has far-reaching consequences for the development of the child and their...
Supervisor: Dr. Asolina Braun
Globally, almost 40 million people currently live with HIV infection, which remains a major public health threat. Contemporary responses to HIV have...
Supervisor: Professor Mark Stoove
The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) is one of the most important hormonal systems regulating both acute and chronic blood pressure. The main effector...
Supervisor: Professor Robert Widdop
The project seeks to evaluate the integration of SFBT as a communication tool with patients in distress for undergraduate paramedic students. When...
Supervisor: Dr Louise Reynolds
The Epidemiological Modelling Unit (EMU) at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine is a multidisciplinary team that maintains advanced...
Supervisor: A/Prof James Trauer