NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Digital Technology to Transform Chronic Disease Outcomes
Optimise, Integrate, and Scale-Up
Our NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Digital Technology to Transform Chronic Disease Outcomes aims to transform Australia’s digital health ecosystem. We leverage the ubiquitous availability of smart devices and digital technology to improve the health and wellbeing of the population, particularly those with different chronic conditions. We develop and validate new research methods and paradigms to advance the new field of digital population health and to create digitally-enabled health consumers, practitioners and researchers. We also develop a new digital health research workforce.
The CRE is funded by the NHMRC (2020-2024). Our research program aims to optimise user experience, improve integration and produce safety guidelines for interactive digital technologies – mobile applications, chatbots, and wearable devices – in order to increase the impact and widespread use of technology to reduce the personal, societal and economic costs associated with chronic diseases.
Our program aims to create a national research capability in this emerging field of digital population health research and to generate evidence and methods that will significantly improve chronic disease outcomes in Australia and globally now, and into the future.
Contact us
Email:
digitalhealth-cre@unimelb.edu.au
Address:
5/333 Exhibition Street,
Melbourne VIC 3004, Australia
Website:
digitalhealth-cre.org
The NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Digital Technology to Transform Chronic Disease Outcomes involves a team of collaborators from the public health, computer science, general practice and other health sciences, psychology, knowledge translation and health economics. The CRE trains young scholars to foster a new generation of digital population health researchers to advance this field of research.
Chief Investigators Associate Investigators Advisory Board Affiliates Trainees Research Fellows
Chief Investigators
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Professor and Director, Noncommunicable Disease Control Unit and Director, WHO Collaborating Centre on Implementation Research for Prevention and Control of NCDs
CRE Director
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Macquarie University
Senior Research Fellow at Centre for Health Informatics
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University of Melbourne
Academic GP, Department of General Practice
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Deakin University
Professor of Physical Activity and Disease Prevention
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University of Melbourne
Professor of Human Computer Interaction
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University of Melbourne
Director of the Research Information Technology Unit
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University of Melbourne
Professor of Psychology in Health Behavior, Deputy Director of the Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change
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Griffith University
Director of Menzies Health Institute, and Professor of Health Economics
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University of Melbourne
Director of the Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change
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Stanford University and Palo Alto University
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Emeritus
Associate Investigators
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President of the Australian Medical Association South Australia
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Macquarie University
Associate Professor of Safety and Effectiveness
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University of Melbourne
Senior Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction
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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Associate Professor of in Health Services
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Duke Kunshan University, China
Professor of NCD Control
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CSIRO
eHealth Researcher, Mobile Health Systems Team Leader
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Honorary Professor at University of Melbourne
Research Lead of Northern Health Melbourne
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Tampere University, Adjunct Professor of Health Promotion
University of Eastern Finland, Visiting Researcher
CEO, Collaborative Care Systems Finland -
Diabetes Australia
Manager, Type 1 Diabetes & Communities
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Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi, India
Senior Research Scientist & Adjunct Associate Professor
Advisory Board
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President of the Australian Medical Association South Australia
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Ernst & Young
Global Health Sector Leader
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North Richmond Community Health
Academic GP
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Consumers Health Forum of Australia
Chief Executive Officer
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WA Primary Health Alliance
Chief Executive Officer
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University of Sydney
Chief Medical Adviser, Clinical Professor
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Department of Health and Human Services
Chief Digital Health Officer
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Honorary Professor at University of Melbourne
Research Lead of Northern Health Melbourne
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Diabetes Australia
Manager, Type 1 Diabetes & Communities
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CSIRO
Director of the Health and Biosecurity Business Unit
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Northern Health
CEO
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University of Melbourne
Associate Dean of Digital Health
Affiliates
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Stanford University, University of Colorado
Co-Director of the Center for m2 Health at Palo Alto University
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Healthcare Excellence and Innovation at Metro North Hospital and Health Service
Director
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Northern Health
Director, Research & Medical Services
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Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Denmark
Senior Researcher
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Northern Health
Allied Health Research Lead
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Deakin University
NHMRC Emerging Leader and National Heart Foundation Senior Research Fellow
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University of Melbourne
Associate Dean of Digital Health
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Northern Health
Director
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Evaluation and Implementation Unit, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Assoc. Professor
Trainees
PhD Students
Research Fellows
Research Fellows
Our Partners
Partnerships underpin much of the work of the CRE. Collaborations with governments, academic institutions, healthcare service institutions, the private sector, and a range of local and international partners are essential to the CRE. Our key health service partners are Northern Health, The Northern Centre for Education and Research and Metro North Hospital and Services.
Please contact us, if you would like to partner with us.



