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.
New website coming soon:
www.digitalhealth-cre.org
Contact us
Email:
digitalhealth-cre@unimelb.edu.au
Address:
5/333 Exhibition Street,
Melbourne VIC 3004, Australia
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 Trainees Research Fellows
Chief Investigators
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Brian Oldenburg
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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Annie Lau
Macquarie University
Senior Research Fellow at Centre for Health Informatics
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Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis
University of Melbourne
Academic GP, Department of General Practice
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Ralph Maddison
Deakin University
Professor of Physical Activity and Disease Prevention
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Vassilis Kostakos
University of Melbourne
Professor of Human Computer Interaction
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Douglas Boyle
University of Melbourne
Director of the Research Information Technology Unit
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Ron Borland
University of Melbourne
Professor of Psychology in Health Behavior, Deputy Director of the Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change
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Paul Scuffham
Griffith University
Director of Menzies Health Institute, and Professor of Health Economics
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Charles Abraham
University of Melbourne
Director of the Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change
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Barr Taylor
Stanford University and Palo Alto University
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Emeritus
Associate Investigators
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Chris Moy
President of the Australian Medical Association South Australia
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Farah Magrabi
Macquarie University
Associate Professor of Safety and Effectiveness
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Greg Wadley
University of Melbourne
Senior Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction
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Josip Car
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Associate Professor of in Health Services
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Lijing Yan
Duke Kunshan University, China
Professor of NCD Control
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Marlien Varnfield
CSIRO
eHealth Researcher, Mobile Health Systems Team Leader
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Peter Brooks
Honorary Professor at University of Melbourne
Research Lead of Northern Health Melbourne
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Pilvikki Absetz
Tampere University, Adjunct Professor of Health Promotion
University of Eastern Finland, Visiting Researcher
CEO, Collaborative Care Systems Finland -
Renza Scibilia
Diabetes Australia
Manager, Type 1 Diabetes and Consumer Voice
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Sailesh Mohan
Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi, India
Senior Research Scientist & Adjunct Associate Professor
Advisory Board
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Chris Moy
President of the Australian Medical Association South Australia
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David Roberts
Ernst & Young
Global Health Sector Leader
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John Furler
North Richmond Community Health
Academic GP
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Leanne Wells
Consumers Health Forum of Australia
Chief Executive Officer
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Meredith Makeham
Australian Digital Health Agency
Chief Medical Adviser, Clinical Professor
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Neville Board
Department of Health and Human Services
Chief Digital Health Officer
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Peter Brooks
Honorary Professor at University of Melbourne
Research Lead of Northern Health Melbourne
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Renza Scibilia
Diabetes Australia
Manager, Type 1 Diabetes and Consumer Voice
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Rob Grenfell
CSIRO
Director of the Health and Biosecurity Business Unit
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Siva Sivarajah
Northern Health
CEO
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Wendy Chapman
University of Melbourne
Associate Dean of Digital Health
Trainees
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Chaofan Wang
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Enying Gong
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Gabriele Marini
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Jaimon Kelly
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Jason Chiang
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Jing Wei
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Jonathan Rawstorn
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Kathleen Yin
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Rebecca Nourse
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Reza Daryabeygikhotbehsara
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Rita McMorrow
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Tilman Dingler
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Weiwei Jiang
Research Fellows
We will 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.
Work Programs
The CRE’s work program will optimise the use of new digital technologies and integrate them with current health care delivery to empower health consumers and communities to disrupt and significantly improve current approaches to chronic disease prevention and management
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Optimise
Optimising the reach and widespread use of digital technology by users, including health consumers and health practitioners in order to complement current traditional approaches to health care delivery which face considerable challenges currently, due to the lifelong disease burden of chronic diseases
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Integrate
Enhancing the integration and interoperability of data and platforms to increase the scalability of digital technology to underpin better decision and clinical support for health practitioners and program delivery to health consumers
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Scale-up
Producing frameworks and guidelines that support and facilitate the uptake and adoption of safe and effective digital technology by Australia’s health practitioners and patients with chronic conditions and enable their integration into routine health care delivery
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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.
