Disparities, disadvantage and effective health care

Reducing the gap in health and wellbeing due to disadvantage through evidence-based policy and health care.

Groups / Projects Research Lead Dept / Centre
Disability, social mobility and the well-being of people with disabilities
Finding the gaps in Australian Government funding support for SWAN children
Tackling the high incidence of suicide in working men
A digital tool to optimise STI/HIV care in general practice Dr Jane Goller
A Framework for Understanding Disability Support Systems in the Pacific
A health systems approach to an economic evaluation of nurse mentoring models in India
A Just Energy Transition
A national study of healthcare complaints Project Leader Dr Marie Bismark
A research study of people experiencing homelessness and social disadvantage using open access or “drop-in” services Project Leader Prof Margaret Kelaher
Abortion Self-Management as Health System Innovation
Afghanistan Technical Support Hub
AIM-Gender: Accelerating Innovation for Mothers
Anaemia Research Co-unit Head Sant-Rayn Pasricha
Analysing Safety and Place in Immigrant and Refugee Experience Project Leader Prof Cathy Vaughan
Analysis of public health research in WHO Western Pacific Region
ASEAN UK Health Security Partnership project
Australia-WOAH One Health Partnership Review
Barriers to effective Primary Health Care
Building a simulation model to improve cardiovascular disease risk prediction and treatment for Indigenous Australians
CARE: Diabetes in Ghana
Community Climate Health Amongst Livestock Keepers in Kyrgyzstan
Reducing the Harms Associated with Conscientious Objection to Abortion Professor Louise Keogh
Collaborative curriculum development for cervical cancer patient education in Indonesia
Survey of Community Attitudes towards People with a Disability Professor Anne Kavanagh
Continuous Professional Development Strategy for Primary Health Care nurses - Kiribati
Contracting out health services: a comprehensive review
Disability Support Workers during COVID-19
Disability Support Workers and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
Continuous Professional Development for Frontline Health Workers - Solomon Islands
CURE-NG: Exploring community and expert perceptions of the acceptability of research that involves infecting the participant's throat with Neisseria gonorrhoeae Dr Eloise Williams
Professor Louise Keogh
Defying the Odds - Aboriginal early childhood health outcomes Professor Sandra Eades
Demography and Ageing Unit Unit Head Professor Jeromey Temple
Depression in people with Multiple Sclerosis Centre for Health Equity
Designing disability-inclusive virtual healthcare
Developing a self-sustaining financing strategy for SAMES
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
Developmental Disability among Aboriginal Children in Western Australia (DDACWA) Professor Sandra Eades
Diagnosis and management of pelvic inflammatory disease in Australia PhD student Jane Goller
Digital Storytelling for Evidence-informed Advocacy
Disability and Health Unit
Disability Docos: The stories behind the numbers Zoe Aitken
Centre for Health Equity
Disability Prevalence and Inequality Measures in Australia Dr George Disney
Early Childhood Intervention in Fiji
Early detection and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage: The E-MOTIVE project
Economic Participation and Employment for People with Disability Centre for Health Equity
EQUINET Online training building HIA capabilities
Equitable access to health and disability services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children with intellectual and other developmental disabilities Professor Sandra Eades
Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Evaluation of the after hours GP helpline for Healthdirect Australia 2013
Exploring the NDIS and Disability Employment Services Alexandra Devine
Centre for Health Equity
FAIR - Family violence affecting children from immigrant & refugee backgrounds
Faith communities supporting healthy family relationships Prof Cathy Vaughan
Family Health House Evaluation
Gender ideologies, gender equality and health in young people Dr Tania King
Gender equality in Australia: An exploration of the impact on sleep and health Anna Scovelle
Exploring the lived experience of learning genomics in the workplace: considerations for innovations and workforce preparedness Alice Kim (PhD student)
Giving Mums a Fair Go: culturally-responsive maternity care for refugee and migrant women in Australia
Great expectations: Achieving the promise of public reporting of health service performance in Australia Project Leader Professor Margaret Kelaher
Health behaviours and outcomes in people with Multiple Sclerosis Dr Claudia Marck
Health effects of compensation systems Project Leader Dr Marie Bismark
Health Sector Review for Fiji
Health seeking behaviour in four Indian States
Health Workforce Diagnostics
Hidden in the margins: the lives and trajectories of young carers Dr Tania King Centre for Health Equity
Hidden in the margins: the lives and trajectories of young carers Dr Tania King Centre for Health Equity
Humanitarian Disability Needs Estimation and Screening Tool
I CaRe WA - Indigenous Child Removals WA Professor Sandra Eades
Identifying Critical Success Factors for Mammographic Screening for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women Project Leader Prof Margaret Kelaher
IDES: Improving Disability Employment Study
ImPACT country reviews for cancer therapy in the Asia Pacific
Impact of Age-Inclusion Specialists
Impact of COVID-19 on health workforce policy
Impact of COVID-19 on the sexual & reproductive health of vulnerable communities in Indonesia
Improving quality of maternity care for women globally Project Leader A/Professor Meghan Bohren
Inclusive Energy Transition in South Asia and Beyond
Inclusive Preparedness For Humanitarian Response - PADIS
India Health Policy and Systems Research Fellowship
Indigenous Epidemiology and Health Professor Sandra Eades
Infectious Disease Dynamics Unit Head Dr Freya Shearer
kNOwVAWdata: Measuring Violence against Women in the Asia Pacific Project Leader - Professor Cathy Vaughan
Law and Public Health Unit Unit Head Professor Marie Bismark
Learning, Acting and Building for Rehabilitation in Health Systems - ReLAB-HS
Lessons learned from surveillance and contact tracing for COVID-19 in South-East Asia
Listening for Change Project Leader - Professor Cathy Vaughan
Mandatory reporting of performance, health and conduct concerns among health practitioners Project Leader Dr Marie Bismark
MatesMonitor Dr Tania King
Professor Tony Lamontagne
Mental health impacts of school to work transitions among young people with disabilities Marissa Shields
Centre for Health Equity
Migrant and refugee experiences of Men’s Behaviour Change Programs
Childbearing Indian migrant women’s expectations and experiences of care: Implications for health systems responsiveness
Migration, work and gender: An exploratory study in Australia Dr Humaira Maheen Centre for Health Equity
Management of Chlamydia Cases in Australia (MoCCA)
Modelling the effectiveness of employment policies in reducing disability-related mental health inequalities Zoe Aitken Disability and Health Unit
Models and quality of genetic health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
More than the sum of my parts Project Leader - Professor Cathy Vaughan
Crisis resilience in people with multiple sclerosis (C-RIMS) A/Prof Claudia Marck
Multicultural and Settlement Services for Women Experiencing Violence Project Leader - Professor Cathy Vaughan
National Suicide Prevention Trial (NSPT) evaluation Project Leader Prof Jane Pirkis
Nature and extent of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability in Australia
#Navigating Health
Notifications to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency: Identifying ‘hot spots' of risk Project Leader Dr Marie Bismark
One Health
Optimisation of Treatments for STIs: Pharmacokinetics Study (STI-PK project) Associate Professor | Deputy Head, Sexual Health Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health A/Prof Fabian Kong
Pacific Disability Statistics Guidebook
Preparing Actionable Data for Inclusive Shelter - PADIS Phase 2
Partnerships for a Healthy Region Initiative
PEARLS
Physical rehabilitation evidence, standards, and their impact on health and society
PNG: Technical assistance through the ADB’s Health Services Sector Development Project
Policy solutions to improve the mental health of Australians with disability
Population and Global Health Informatics Associate Professor Adrian Bickerstaffe
Preparing the Pacific Renewable Energy Investment Facility
Preventing suicide in India by improving media reporting of suicide
Prevention of family violence for women with disability Dr Georgina Sutherland
Primary health care service delivery redesign for the COVID 19 new normal
Professional Development for Health Security Education and Learning
Protecting Non-COVID Essential Health Services-Indonesia
Psychedelics Research and Therapeutics Unit Head Dr Daniel Perkins
Psychosocial Disability and Employment Ms Alex Devine
rapid Assistive Technology Assessment: Training and implementation
Rebate Adolescent Health (RAd Health) Professor Jane Hocking
Rectal Treatment Study (RTS) Head, Sexual Health Unit Professor Jane Hocking
Identifying priorities for reducing abortion stigma in the healthcare workforce Dr Shelly Makleff
Developing a reflective practice model to support healthcare workers engaged in abortion-related work in Queensland Christy Fischer
Dr Shelly Makleff
Refugee Youth Wellbeing
Regional Roadmap for EMTCT 2022-2030
Removal of Financial Incentives Trial: ACCEPt-able Unit Head Professor Jane Hocking
Replanting the Birthing Trees
Research Program
Research projects
Building a framework for young people with disability who use violence at home Dr Georgina Sutherland Centre for Health Equity
RESPONSE
Responsive health systems
Safeguarding People With Multiple Sclerosis From Domestic Violence A/Prof Claudia Marck Centre for Health Equity
Saving Lives at Birth (SLAB)
Mental health impacts of school to work transitions among young people with disabilities
Settling Well
Sexual Health and Ageing, Perspectives and Education (SHAPE) Project Project Leader Professor Jane Hocking
Sexual and gender-based violence in the refugee crisis Lead Australian Researcher: Professor Cathy Vaughan
Sharing WISDOM
Small Island States: Enabling a Just Energy Transition in the Maldives
Smoking among people with intellectual disability Dr George Disney
Centre for Health Equity
Smoking and Multiple Sclerosis A/Prof Claudia Marck Centre for Health Equity
Social determinants of health and unmet social needs in people with MS A/Prof Claudia Marck Centre for Health Equity
Socioeconomic Related Health Inequalities Project Leader Dr Dennis Petrie
Spotlight Initiative to eliminate violence against women & girls in Timor-Leste
STARS: Standing Together Against Racism in Sport
Stigma, COVID-19 and disability: stories of impact and resilience
Strengthening health literacy among Indigenous people living with cardiovascular disease, their families, and health care providers Project Leader Professor Margaret Kelaher
Strengthening Joined-up Responses to Violence Against Women and Children in Timor-Leste
Structural Barriers to Accessing Response Services for Gender-Based Violence Survivors
Suicide prevention public services announcements (PSAs) targeting adolescents: A randomised controlled trial Project Leader Prof Jane Pirkis
Technical Support Health Financing - EAP
Technology-facilitated gender-based violence
The After Hours Primary Health Care Program
The Costs of Raising Children with Disabilities in the Philippines
The Disability Inclusive Health Services Toolkit
The Rapid Assessment of Disability (RAD)
Reducing stigma towards people with mental illness among medical students (The SaMS Study)
The State of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Report
Twins Research Australia
Under-utilisation of NDIS Packages Alexandra Devine
Understanding and Addressing Catastrophic Health Events in India
Understanding the gaps in Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) in the Philippines and Papua New Guinea
Violence Against Women and Girls: Understanding the Indonesian health system response
Violence against people with disability - Fact sheets Dr Georgina Sutherland Centre for Health Equity
Violence against people with disabilities: Using existing data to inform submissions to the Disability Royal Commission Professor Anne Kavanagh
W-DARE Project Lead: Professor Cathy Vaughan
Who cares? Taking care of the carers Jacqui Parncutt
Centre for Health Equity
World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Women's Health Project Lead: Dr Cathy Vaughan
WIN: Hospital Workforce Interfacing with the NDIS Dr Ashley McAllister
YES: Youth Employment Study Professor Anne Kavanagh

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