Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing
Projects grouped by Research Unit
Disaster, Climate and Adversity Unit
The Disaster, Climate and Adversity Unit works with policy makers, service providers, practitioners, communities and people with lived experience to build new evidence and convert that into practical resources and tools that increase capacity to implement health promoting systems, services and strategies. Our vision is to help create pathways towards optimum health and wellbeing for those at risk from or impacted by disaster, climate and adversity.
Global and Cultural Mental Health Unit
The Global and Cultural Mental Health Unit works to improve mental health and reduce mental illness in low-resource settings and among vulnerable populations in Australia and internationally.
Mental Health Epidemiology Unit
The Mental Health Epidemiology Unit leads research on the design and analysis of studies of mental health outcomes, including studies of suicide and self-harm.
Mental Health Policy and Practice Unit
The Mental Health Policy and Practice Unit aims to influence policy and practice in Australia and overseas. Our Unit is well known for its evaluations of large-scale mental health programs, and its studies of more specific interventions.
- Assessment of the implementation of Suicide Observatory in Cork and Kerry, Ireland
- Barriers and facilitators to help-seeking in men bereaved by suicide
- Better identifying and characterising suicide hotspots
- Evaluation of Every life
- Evaluation of Postvention support for children bereaved by suicide
- Evaluation of R U OK?
- Impact of macroeconomic factors on suicide in Australia
- Independent evaluation of Medicare Mental Health Centres and Head to Health Phone Service
- LIFEWAYS: Translating suicide prevention research into policy and practice
- Postvention Protocol Guidelines
- Strengthening the evidence base for suicide prevention
- The Buoy Project
- The impact of interventions at frequently used suicide locations on occurrence of suicides at other sites
- The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on suicides around the world
- The Survivor – Using social media to tell stories of hope following a suicidal crisis
Population Mental Health Unit
The aims of the Population Mental Health Group are to conduct research on what actions members of the community can take to prevent and intervene early with mental health conditions, investigate the impact of social determinants on mental health, and translate the findings from this research into practical interventions that empower the whole community to take action.
- ALIVE: A national mental health research translation centre: Prevention across the Life Course
- A national survey of community attitudes to prevention, promotion and wellbeing
- A new frontier in mental health prevention: Targeting child emotional abuse
- Anne Deveson Research Collaborative
- Characteristics of mentally healthy nations
- Co-design in preventive mental health research
- Developing culturally appropriate mental health first aid training for China, Chile and Argentina
- Empowering culturally and linguistically diverse parents to support primary school-aged children
- Evaluation of the Conversations about Suicide course in Australian Men’s Sheds
- Improving consensus processes in health sciences
- Mitigating the impact of the media on stigmatising attitudes towards people with complex mental illness
- Promoting healthy adolescent romantic relationships in the Global South
- Setting Australian research priorities for child mental health clinical trials
- Suicide prevention in youth custodial settings
- Transforming the evidence base supporting mental health first aid training