Centre for Research Excellence in Achieving Health Equity for All People with Disabilities (AHEAD)

Project Details

AHEAD will provide innovative solutions that address the social and structural determinants of health for people with disabilities, enhance health and social systems and ensure resources are used efficiently and effectively. AHEAD will deliver qualitative and quantitative research evidence on what works, informed by lived experience, predictive analytics to anticipate the effects of potential solutions, trials, the evaluation of policy changes and continuous monitoring. AHEAD will enhance health equity by implementing sustainable, co-designed solutions that address the social determinants of health for people with disabilities and are shaped through our expanded research capacity and new innovative research infrastructure.

• AHEAD website.
• LinkedIn

Researchers

Healthy Housing Unit

• Dr Kate Mason (University of Melbourne) .

Dr Mason is co-lead of the ‘Home’ research stream, aiming to maximise health outcomes by generating new knowledge on improving housing and neighbourhoods, enabling active community participation.

External leads

• Professor Dennis Petrie (Monash University)
• Professor Helen Dickinson (UNSW)

Funding

The research is funded as a Centre for Research Excellence by the National Health and Medical Research Council.

Project period

2024 - 2029

Contact

Dr Kate Mason

kmason@unimelb.edu.au