Cancer Health Services Research
The Cancer Health Services Research Unit studies all relevant aspects of cancer care innovation, cancer health economics and the improvement of cancer care delivery. new
Demography and Ageing
The Demography and Ageing Unit comprises a group of demographers and social scientists who focus on the implications of ageing for individuals, families, the economy and population more broadly. Our research interests cover both macro (population ageing) and micro (individual ageing) perspectives on ageing, with a view to generating an evidence base to inform better policy and practice.
Evaluation and Implementation Science
Our research and teaching at the unit are focussed on promoting the understanding and use of evaluation and implementation science methods in health care. Evidence of high-quality health care is generated through evaluation with implementation science informing strategies to foster the uptake of evidence into routine practice in a range of settings. Through these methods we seek to improve health care equity and outcomes.
- A research study of people experiencing homelessness and social disadvantage using open access or “drop-in” services
- An evaluation framework to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
- Better Indigenous Genetic (BIG) health services
- Building Bridges program evaluation
- Development of a framework for the evaluation of policies, programs and services that aim to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ health and wellbeing
- DHHS (North Division) Executive Population Health Capacity Building Program
- Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network
- Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social and Emotional Wellbeing: Developing an evaluation framework
- Efficacy and Demonstration of IntraVenous Iron for Anaemia in pregnancy (EVIDA) Bangladesh
- Evaluation of new clinical trials designs
- Evaluation of the after hours GP helpline for Healthdirect Australia 2013
- Evaluation of the Western Bulldogs Sons of the West Program
- Evaluation of Under Screened Recruitment Program 2014
- Expanding Access to Self-collection to increase cervical screening participation (EASI-C)
- Family violence victim support programs for women prisoners
- Great expectations: Achieving the promise of public reporting of health service performance in Australia
- Identifying Critical Success Factors for Mammographic Screening for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
- Inner North West Primary Care Partnership: Evaluation Capacity Building (INCEPT 1.0 and 2.0)
- Localities Embracing and Accepting Diversity (LEAD) program evaluation
- Manufacturing consensus: Independence in consensus statements in health
- Mind the gap: Price transparency in the Australian healthcare system
- Models and quality of genetic health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- Optimising the benefits of the renewed cervical screening program for Aboriginal Women in Victoria
- Planning, implementation and effectiveness in Indigenous health reform
- Quality review of national primary care telephone triage and advice lines
- Randomised controlled trial of the Effect of intraVenous iron on Anaemia in Malawian Pregnant women Implementation Science (REVAMP-IS) Malawi
- Responding to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Family Aspirations to Foster Self-Determination and Social and Emotional Wellbeing
- Stakeholder consultation and the development of a comprehensive implementation and engagement plan for the roll out of the proposed policy changes on self-collection under the National Cervical Screening Program
- Strengthening health literacy among Indigenous people living with cardiovascular disease, their families, and health care providers
- Supporting Choice for Cervical Screening
- The Achieving Equity in Genomic Health (AEGH) for Indigenous Australians project
- The After Hours Primary Health Care Program
- The influence of spatial design on team communication in hospital emergency departments
- Understanding disability through the lens of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – challenges and opportunities
- Understanding the Impact of Organisational Health Literacy Initiatives on Clients
- Workplace design for the Australian residential aged care workforce
Health Economics
The Health Economics Unit undertakes a range of projects focused on economic evaluation as well as the assessment of efficiency, equality and quality of health care production and performance.
- Addressing the unequitable distribution of economic benefits of vaccines across countries
- Building a simulation model to improve cardiovascular disease risk prediction and treatment for Indigenous Australians
- Development and validation of a health policy simulation model for cardiovascular disease
- Development and validation of a health policy simulation model for type 1 diabetes
- Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis
- Eliciting health inequality aversion parameters
- Equity-centred analysis of PBAC vaccine funding recommendations & legislations
- Expenditures and prices of antihyperglycemic medications in the United States
- Giving an adult life after Fontan surgery to those with the most severe congenital heart conditions
- Impact of Medicare Part D on income-related inequality in drug expenditure
- Improving cost-effectiveness analysis of childhood vaccines
- Nerve transfers for restoration of upper limb function in tetraplegia
- Optimising Early Respiratory Support for Preterm Infants: The HIPSTER Trial
- Patient reported outcomes: getting the timing right
- Severe hypoglycaemia and Type 1 diabetes
- The growth of linked hospital data use in Australia: a systematic review
- TRAM: Texting to Reduce Alcohol Misuse
- Understanding the drivers of trial efficiency
Healthy Housing
The Healthy Housing Unit generates high quality epidemiological research on the relationship between housing and health. The unit also models the effect of housing focussed interventions on health and trains and mentors a new generation of scholars to conduct rigorous research on Healthy Housing. The unit translates and disseminates the work to policy makers, thought leaders, media, and the public and reinforce the message that social determinants of health are primary drivers of population health.
- An intergenerational visioning of affordable housing in a regional context
- Australian Housing Conditions: A Data Infrastructure
- Centre for Research Excellence in Healthy Housing
- Closing the housing gap: A spotlight on intergenerational inequalities
- Evidence for action on cold, damp and mould in Australia
- From Shelter to Security: An Exploration of Crisis Accommodation
- Health and housing trajectories following climate-related natural disasters
- Housing typologies and asthma in Victoria
- Housing, place, and health inequalities across the life course
- Inequalities and climate change: developing an index of human health vulnerability to climate change in Australia
- Precarious housing and wellbeing: a multi-dimensional investigation
- Renting in the time of COVID-19: understanding the impacts
- Social impacts of climate change: examining the implications for fuel affordability inequalities
- The Healthy Environments and Lives National (HEAL) Research Network
- Validation study of damp and mould exposure in Australian homes
Law and Public Health
The Law and Public Health unit at the University of Melbourne is an interfaculty initiative which spans the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and the Melbourne Law School.
- A national study of healthcare complaints
- Harnessing the Potential of Regulatory Data to Improve the Regulation of Lawyers
- Health effects of compensation systems
- Impact of medico-legal processes on the mental health and wellbeing of doctors with pre-existing injuries or illnesses
- Mandatory reporting of performance, health and conduct concerns among health practitioners
- Notifications to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency: Identifying ‘hot spots' of risk
Melbourne Health Technology and Value Assessment Collaboration (M-VAC)
M-VAC provides a comprehensive stream of research, advisory and assessment services to underpin value-based health care policies, agendas, and reforms.