Researchers at the Health Economic Unit are Winners of High Impact Award for Original Research

Congratulations to Dr An Duy Tran, Dr Josh Knight, Dr Xinyang Hua and Prof Philip Clarke at the Health Economic Unit of the Centre For Health Policy on their achievement with a 2021 High Impact Award (category Downloads) for their Original Research published in Heart, Lung and Circulation. The Award was judged along published guidelines and announced at the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand's (CSANZ) Annual General Meeting on August 7, 2021. This Award is also listed on the Journal's Article Prizes and Awards section (for 2021).

The article describes a prediction model for classification of cardiovascular risk of remote Indigenous Australians, the first model of its kind. Dr An Duy Tran has also developed a risk calculator based on this model, which can be downloaded as an Android app as well as an iOS app.