Centre for Health Equity
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
- Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health
- Community attitudes towards disability
- Depression in people with Multiple Sclerosis
- Disability Docos: The stories behind the numbers
- Disability prevalence and inequality measures in Australia
- Discrimination and bullying against Australians with disability
- Employment for people with Multiple Sclerosis
- Exploring the NDIS and Disability Employment Services
- Gender equality and health in young people
- Gender equality in Australia: how do we measure it?
- Gender equality: is it good for your health?
- Health behaviours and outcomes in people with Multiple Sclerosis
- Hidden in the margins: the lives and trajectories of young carers
- IDES: Improving Disability Employment Study
- Including young people with disabilities in City of Melbourne
- Machine learning and neighbourhood design
- Making Melbourne inclusive for people with a disability
- Masculinity in young men
- MatesMonitor: Suicide prevention in the construction industry
- Melbourne Disability Institute
- Men, sexuality and disability
- Migration, work and gender: An exploratory study in Australia
- Modelling employment policies in reducing disability-related mental health inequalities
- Psychosocial disability and employment
- Smoking and Multiple Sclerosis
- Smoking behaviours among people with intellectual disability
- Social outcomes for school leavers with cerebral palsy
- Socioeconomic inequalities in multi-morbidity among adults
- Stewarding thin markets and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
- The DOMINO Dataset
- The Victorian Disability Plan outcomes framework
- Utilising event-based income support data to test its effect on health across the life-course of people with disabilities
- Violence against people with disabilities: Providing data to inform submissions to the Royal Commission
- Vision impairment and employment
- WIN: Hospital Workforce Interfacing with the NDIS
- YES: Youth Employment Study
Evidence and Child Health Unit
The Evidence and Child Health Unit comprises two programs: The Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program that works towards a vision of every child having the opportunity for a fulfilling and healthy life, and the Public Health Insight program, which incorporates the Cochrane Public Health Group.
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
- Data and methods in social and spatial epidemiology
- Improving quality of maternity care for women globally
- kNOwVAWdata
- Listening for Change
- More than the sum of my parts
- MuSeS
- Oral health inequalities
- Paid Parental Leave
- Sexual violence in the refugee crisis
- The Australian Housing Conditions Survey
- The health and economic impacts of active travel
- Theoretical explanations for socioeconomic inequalities in multimorbidity among adults
- Unaffordable Housing
- 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.
- Development of an evidence based clinical care pathway for high risk women following risk reducing hysterectomy +/- bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (RRBSO)
- Development of automated measures from mammograms that predict masking and risk and pilot implementation into a BreastScreen service
- Development of automated measures from mammograms that predict masking and risk of breast cancer
- Diggers to Veterans: risk, recovery and reslience in the First AIF
- Ethics & equity: Implications for health systems research priority-setting
- Ethics of personalised medicine to treat refactory childhood cancer
- Improving skin cancer prevention: motivating preventive behaviours using knowledge of personalised genomic risk of melanoma
- Manufacturing consensus: Independence in consensus statements in health
- Medically Unexplained Symptoms: Experiences of Paediatric Health Professionals
- Regulation of personalised digital closed loop systems to manage diabetes in children
- Telling the truth to seriously ill children
- The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art
- The role of masculinity in the suicidality of men aged 80 or more
- Translating Evidence into Practice
- Voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: ethical challenges in implementation
- When should health professionals override parents' decisions about a child's medical treatment?
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 is committed to research and teaching that is underpinned by principles of Indigenous community development and that will lead to long-term improvements in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.
Indigenous Studies Unit
The Indigenous Studies Unit aims to develop world-class teaching and research in Australian Indigenous Studies.
- Alcohol management in indigenous north Australia: policies and responses
- Alcohol Management Plans in Aboriginal Communities: An ethnographic study
- Alcohol Management Plans in indigenous Australia
- Alcohol Management Plans: Innovation in Research and Evaluation
- Digitisation and Indigenous Communities
- Health and Community Service Agreements
- IBES-Wadeye IPTV: Delivering audiovisual archives to remote aboriginal communities
- Indigenous Data Network
- Indigenous Data Sovereignty
- Local Aboriginal Community Archives
- Poverty in the Midst of Plenty
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 primary care nurse in a transitional support service
- Global prison and youth detention health survey project
- Health After Release from Prison (HARP) cohort study
- Health service utilisation and preventable mortality in justice-involved young people (JJ-NMDS project)
- 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
- UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty: putting health on the agenda