AusHSI researchers, Professor Anne Chang AM and Professor Adrian Barnett, have been announced as members of the NHMRC Research Committee for 2024 to 2027. AusHSI Adjunct Professor Ginny Barbour has been appointed to the NHMRC-Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Public Health and Health Systems Committee.
Megan Campbell has been welcomed as the new Chair of the Deeble Institute Advisory Board. Her extensive experience in health services research and commitment to stakeholder engagement will be instrumental in guiding future initiatives.
AusHSI was a proud sponsor of the 13th Health Services Research Conference. This year’s theme "Health Services Research in the Digital Age" highlighted the complexity of integrating digital innovations within health systems and AusHSI’s digital health research featured strongly throughout the program.
QUT Associate Professor Susanna Cramb was recently honoured with the Judges’ Award at the Queensland Women in STEM Prize Awards. Susanna received the Judges’ Award for her groundbreaking work in developing statistical methods to identify, understand, and address health inequities across Australia.
Over the past few months, AusHSI PhD students Pakhi Sharma, Jack Roberts, Ureni Halahakone, Sam Borg and Linh Vo have each been making an impact in their different fields of healthcare research. Congratulations to all on such fantastic achievements!
A Queensland Diabetes Footcare Hubs (Q DFootHubs) project has been awarded $1.3M from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) under its Partnership Projects program to evaluate novel rural outreach services.
A collaborative research project led by QUT and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service (ATSICHS) Brisbane has been awarded $1,332,594.60 in funding through the 2023 NHMRC Partnerships Projects program.
In an op-ed titled "Why I’ve removed journal titles from the papers on my CV" for the widely read journal Nature, AusHSI statistician Prof Adrian Barnett has called for a novel way to shift the focus from where academic research is published to what the research has actually found.
The Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre has formed a Senior Academic Leaders Council, a national, cross-university network driving collaboration across digital health research and education.
AusHSI A/Prof Julie Marchant and A/Prof Peter Lazzarini have each received NHMRC Investigator Grants to pursue impactful research projects addressing some of Australia's greatest health challenges.
