Centre for Health Equity
Child and Community Wellbeing Unit
The Child and Community Wellbeing Unit builds evidence about systemic and service-based opportunities to promote positive health and wellbeing for children and their families; and to support communities to thrive in times of stability and to adapt and grow in response to disruption.
Disability and Health Unit
Our vision is for better health and wellbeing for people with disability and long term health conditions. We generate evidence to improve the health and wellbeing of people with disabilities by focussing on the social determinants of health.
- Disability, social mobility and the well-being of people with disabilities
- Tackling the high incidence of suicide in working men
- Applying a gender lens to COVID-19 responses in the Australian university sector
- Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health (CRE-DH)
- Community attitudes towards disability
- COVID-19 and Disability Support Workers
- COVID-19 Vaccine & Support Workers
- Depression in people with Multiple Sclerosis
- Disability Docos: The stories behind the numbers
- Disability prevalence and inequality measures in Australia
- Economic participation and employment for people with disability
- Exploring the NDIS and Disability Employment Services
- Gender equality and health in young people
- Gender equality: The impact on sleep and health
- Health behaviours and outcomes in people with Multiple Sclerosis
- Hidden in the margins: the lives and trajectories of young carers
- Identifying disability in linked data sets
- IDES: Improving Disability Employment Study
- Managing COVID-19 outbreaks in disability residential settings
- Masculinity in young men
- MatesMonitor: Suicide prevention in the construction industry
- Mental health impacts of school to work transitions
- Migration, work and gender: An exploratory study in Australia
- Modelling employment policies in reducing disability-related mental health inequalities
- MS CRIMS
- Nature and extent of disability violence in Australia
- Prevention of family violence for women with disability
- Psychosocial disability and employment
- Responding to young people with disability who use violence at home
- Smoking among people with intellectual disability
- Smoking and Multiple Sclerosis
- The DOMINO Dataset
- The Innovative Measurement of Australian Gender (IN)Equality IMAGINE
- The SaMS Study
- Under-utilisation of NDIS Packages
- Violence against people with disability
- Violence prevalence data and disability in Australia
- Who cares? Taking care of the carers
- WIN: Hospital Workforce Interfacing with the NDIS
- YES: Youth Employment Study
Gender and Women's Health Unit
The Gender and Women’s Health Unit aims to improve the health of women, their families and communities through high quality teaching, research and knowledge exchange. The Unit’s work contributes to knowledge about the health effects of gender inequity and its intersection with other social, economic, cultural, psychological, and biological factors.
- Analysing Safety and Place in Immigrant and Refugee Experience
- ASPIRE Image Gallery
- Faith communities supporting healthy family relationships
- Improving quality of maternity care for women globally
- kNOwVAWdata
- Listening for Change
- More than the sum of my parts
- MuSeS
- Sexual violence in the refugee crisis
- W-DARE
- WHO-CC
Health Humanities and Social Sciences Unit
The Health Humanities and Social Sciences Unit brings together the humanities and social sciences in the study of health and health care. The Centre uses multi-disciplinary approaches to strengthen the nexus between theory and practice in the study of health and society.
- Clinical ethics and COVID-19
- Ethics and Equity: Transforming data sharing in infectious disease epidemics
- Evidence base to inform health service configuration for abortion provision
- Japan and self-help groups
- Moratorium on Genetic Testing & Life Insurance: Monitoring the impact
- Social Determinants of Indigenous Health
- Sonic Japan
- The First AIF: Risk Recovery and Resilience
- Using feminist pedagogy to resist harmful weight-loss dieting practices
- Vandemonians: The understory of colonial Victoria
- Voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: ethical challenges in implementation
Indigenous Eye Health
The Indigenous Eye Health Unit aims to Close the Gap for Vision for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through world-leading research, policy formation, advocacy and implementation.
Indigenous Health Equity Unit
The Indigenous Health Equity Unit conducts rigorous and innovative research and teaching that recognises the strength and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to promote wellbeing.
Indigenous Studies Unit
The Indigenous Studies Unit aims to develop world-class teaching and research in Australian Indigenous Studies.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Curricula Project: Phase 1 and 2
- Aboriginal Remote Narrowcast Tv And The Audiovisual Archive (2018-2021)
- Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements
- Alcohol management in Indigenous communities
- Cultural Heritage
- Indigenous Data Network
- Indigenous family violence
- Local Aboriginal Community Archives: Use of information technology and NBN in disaster preparedness and recovery (2013-2016)
- Reclaiming Performance Under Assimilation In Southeast Australia, 1935-75 (2018-2021)
- Representation, Remembrance and the Memorial (RRM)
- Return, Reconcile, Renew: Building an Evidence Base for the Future (2014-2017)
Justice Health Unit
The Justice Health Unit seeks to generate world-class evidence regarding the health and health service experiences of justice-involved populations, and to advocate for evidence-informed policy to improve their health outcomes.
- ACT Detainee Health and Wellbeing Survey
- Deaths in young people involved in the youth justice system (YJ-Mort) study
- Evaluation of embedding a community health nurse in a transitional support service
- Global prison and youth detention health survey project
- Health After Release from Prison (HARP) cohort study
- Mapping the forensic mental health ecosystem in Australia: A national audit
- Mapping the scope and character of prison mental health services in Australia: a national benchmarking project
- Mortality after Release from Incarceration Consortium (MARIC) Study
- Staying Quit After Release (SQuARe) Trial
- The national youth justice data linkage project
- UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty: putting health on the agenda
- YSAS project