Announcing Seed Incubator Grant Recipients
The Centre for Health Equity is delighted to announce successful grants through the very first Seed Incubator Scheme. The primary purpose of the scheme is to enhance capacity and foster new strategic initiatives, collaborations, and leadership in health equity at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. The scheme will support initiatives that prioritise the integration of health equity principles and methodologies into the endeavours of Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. Congratulations to all grant recipients!
Incubator grants:
Dr Bronwyn Merner, Dr Kara Burns and team for their project ‘Tools for addressing inequity in digital health innovation’.
Dr Ankur Singh and team for ‘Cohort Study of Health and Wellbeing of South Asian Migrants in Australia’.
Prof Sandra Eades, Dr Tabassum Rahman and team for their project ‘Health equity for Indigenous menstrual health and hygiene’.
Prof Linda Bennett and team, ‘Understanding in/equity in access to maternal and child health services for adolescent mothers situated on the streets of Yogyakarta’.
Teaching and Learning grants:
Ms Andrea Boudville and A/Prof Helen Jordan for ‘Developing work integrated learning resources for rural placements’.
Ms Sarah Simpson, A/Prof Georgina Sutherland and teams for combined projects ‘A glass half-full: building on existing assets to grow and strengthen capacity for teaching health equity’ and ‘Strengthening gender equity in public health postgraduate training: strengths, gaps and solutions’.
A/Prof Rosalind McDougall, A/Prof Karen Block, and A/Prof Melissa Russell for ‘Building capacity in health equity for B.Biomed students’.
Dr George Disney and team, ‘Understanding, estimating, and visualising health inequalities – become an ‘R-tiste’ at our R programming short-course!’.
A/Prof Helen Jordan and team for ‘Student Inclusiveness and Cultural Safety in Group Assessment Tasks across MSPGH courses’.
Further Incubator funding was allocated to the following projects:
Prof Louise Keogh and team, ‘Defining reproductive justice for the Australian context’; Ms Hannah Morrice and team, ‘Advocating for an Evidence-Based National Climate and Health Strategy in Australia’; Dr Zoe Aitken and team, ‘A disability glossary to guide public health researchers’; A/Prof Meghan Bohren and team, ‘Towards a better tomorrow: Addressing intersectional gendered power relations to eradicate inequities in maternal health’; A/Prof Karen Block and Ms Dana Young, ‘Strengthening industry and cross-sectoral partnerships to support the scalability of the STARS (Standing Together Against Racism in Sport)’; and Dr Claudia Marck and team, ‘Co-design of a crisis preparedness tool for people with multiple sclerosis: The RediPlan Plus’.