Improving The Quality, Efficiency And Outcomes Of Stroke Care: Transforming Policy And Practice
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$466,492.00
Summary
This Fellowship supports an innovative body of research focussed on interventions to improve the care and outcomes of stroke. In Australia, stroke is a leading cause of death and disability. Unfortunately, variability in clinical care is resulting in some preventable disability. Over the next 4 years A/Prof Cadilhac will conduct clinical trials (n=2) and observational studies (n=3) aimed at improving the health system and outcomes of stroke. She uses economic evaluation to ensure findings are us ....This Fellowship supports an innovative body of research focussed on interventions to improve the care and outcomes of stroke. In Australia, stroke is a leading cause of death and disability. Unfortunately, variability in clinical care is resulting in some preventable disability. Over the next 4 years A/Prof Cadilhac will conduct clinical trials (n=2) and observational studies (n=3) aimed at improving the health system and outcomes of stroke. She uses economic evaluation to ensure findings are used for changing policy.Read moreRead less
Addressing Foundational Impediments To The Translation Of Chronic Disease Prevention Interventions In Community Settings
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$470,144.00
Summary
Smoking, alcohol use, physical inactivity, poor diet, and obesity are among the most important risk factors of chronic disease. While research has identified a number of effective interventions to address these risks, most have not been designed to be implemented in the community. Furthermore, little research has been undertaken to identify effective methods to achieve large-scale implementation of effective interventions. My fellowship seeks to address these issues.
Secondary Stroke Prevention: Strategies To Narrow The Gap Between Evidence And Practice
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$411,803.00
Summary
People who have had a stroke are at increased risk of having another stroke. Secondary stroke prevention is a neglected area of post-stroke care and the uptake of research evidence is poor. Barriers to evidence integration can include problems with the evidence and difficulties at the health professional and/or consumer level. This research will seek to understand the barriers and develop strategies to reduce the gap between evidence and clinical practice in secondary stroke prevention.
Using Health Economics To Improve Access To Health Care In Under-served Populations
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$476,728.00
Summary
Many health care interventions shown to be effective and cost-effective under controlled conditions are consistently under-utilised or mis-used in resource poor settings, especially by the most deprived groups. Over the next 4 years I will establish a program of health economics and health services research to improve the delivery and financing of health care interventions to ensure everyone reaps the benefits of medical science and health technologies and not just those who can afford it.
Preventing And Treating Significant Infections In The Community And In Hospitals
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$328,990.00
Summary
Infections that require hospitalisation are common and a significant event for patients. This research will look at severe influenza and define how protective the influenza vaccination is against hospitalisation. It will also look at preventing healthcare associated infections and in particular those involving antibiotic resistant "superbugs".
Economic Evaluation Of Policies To Manage Type 2 Diabetes Using Evidence From Randomized Controlled Trials
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$472,994.00
Summary
The aim of this Career Development Award is to develop computer simulation models to predict health outcomes for people with type 2 diabetes. This model will be used to examine the cost-effectiveness of different management strategies for people with type 2 diabetes in order to increase efficiency in the allocation of resources and to improve the quality of diabetes care.
Understanding And Preventing Population-level Harm From Alcohol
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$425,048.00
Summary
This project will support Dr Livingston's world-leading work to better understand the reasons that alcohol consumption and related-harm changes at the population level. It will also support projects that will directly assess the impact of changes to alcohol policies in Australia and the development of policy simulation models, to provide critical evidence and ensure well-informed policy decisions can be made to reduce alcohol-related harm.
Alcohol-related harm is a major contributor to the total burden of disease and social problems experienced both globally and in Australia. Considerable burden is placed on health and policing sectors and at substantial financial cost. This project will significantly improve Australian capacity to monitor alcohol related harms at local, state and national levels, enhance the underlying epidemiology and understanding of relations between alcohol and harm and enable reliable and timely evaluation o ....Alcohol-related harm is a major contributor to the total burden of disease and social problems experienced both globally and in Australia. Considerable burden is placed on health and policing sectors and at substantial financial cost. This project will significantly improve Australian capacity to monitor alcohol related harms at local, state and national levels, enhance the underlying epidemiology and understanding of relations between alcohol and harm and enable reliable and timely evaluation of alcohol policy.Read moreRead less
Evaluation Of New Screening Strategies For Prevention Of Cancer
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$251,144.00
Summary
Governments, clinicians and consumers have a need for accurate and up-to-date information about the cost-effectiveness, benefits and harms of cancer screening. This project will evaluate whether further changes to cervical screening will be needed after the release of next generation HPV vaccines, whether new screening programs should be implemented for lung cancer and Lynch syndrome, the potential role of new technologies for bowel screening, and whether prostate testing can be improved.
Low back pain affects one in four people in Australia and is responsible for over $8 billion spent on treatments and work loss every year. Surgery is a popular treatment approach for this multifactorial condition but we still lack high quality science to support the role of surgery for low back pain. We also lack research capacity in this field. In my fellowship, I propose to conduct high quality studies to generate and implement scientific knowledge in this field.