Binuri Perera's research focuses on the burden of bloodstream infections among injured patients. Bloodstream infections can increase patients’ risk of death and are costly to treat, but we know little about their impact on patients and health systems. Binuri is addressing this gap by analysing population-level linked data for all of Queensland over a 20-year period.
Rangi Weerasuriya's PhD project focuses on identifying the key risk factors for people hospitalised with foot disease in order to improve prevention and early detection, identifying the at-risk population in the community and adapting the targeted preventive strategies and close monitoring.
Hear about AusHSI PhD candidate Jack Roberts's running journey with the AusHSI running group, what inspired him to complete the QUT Classic, and his PhD research in a recent interview with QUT Graduate Research Education + Development (GRE+D).
Affecting one in three adults over 65 annually, falls can rob people of their independence and confidence, impacting on their fitness, health and wellbeing. My research aims to investigate factors affecting the use of fall-risk screening tools in the Emergency Department and their impact on patient outcomes.
Natalia started her PhD journey with research ideas that would help local councils in regional Australia to address the inequity barriers experienced by people with disabilities. Having now finished her PhD, she is certainly not done with the subject and more work is always needed in this field.
One of Robin Blythe’s digital health PhD research objectives was to understand how to make clinical decision support systems more useful without adding to clinicians’ workloads, allowing them to spend their time on more meaningful work.
Hear about AusHSI PhD candidate Adele Van den Hoek’s running journey with the AusHSI running group, and what inspired her to complete the QUT Classic, in a recent interview with QUT Graduate Research Education + Development (GRE+D).
When patients fall, their health can decline rapidly. As part of his recently completed PhD, Rex Parsons explored a decision support tool that supports the provision of value-based health care, and discovered an interest in software development.
AusHSI PhD students attended the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre's Curiosity Camp at Lake Crackenback in NSW, which brought together emerging leaders, consumers, innovators and researchers to address real-world healthcare problems.
Smoking prevalence across Australia has not substantially declined in the past decade. My PhD project aims to reduce smoking in Queensland by supporting Quitline users to successfully quit smoking through improved uptake and engagement with the service.
