International Strategies To Reduce Population Salt Intake
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$428,065.00
Summary
Effective, sustainable and scalable strategies to reduce salt are needed so countries can achieve the global target to reduce salt by 30% by 2025. This research program will support the optimal development of such strategies through trials and intervention research projects, supplemented through a series of systematic reviews and feasibility and cost-effectiveness assessments. The main outcome will be new evidence on the effectiveness of different interventions to support translation globally.
Improving Research Evidence Quality Using Individual Patient Data, Prospective Meta-analysis And Trial Registration
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$387,489.00
Summary
The quality of evidence we use to make health care decisions can be improved if we use systematic reviews that are planned ahead, that use raw data from each participant and include all the trials that have looked at the clinical problem. This research program will utilise these three ways of obtaining better quality data and will thus make research results more reliable. In particular, we will use these techniques to address health problems in mothers and babies.
Preventing Non-communicable Disease And Promoting Health: Research To Inform Ethical Public Health Action
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$408,388.00
Summary
I am a social scientist with public health training. In public health it is routine to ask: How many people are affected by that disease? – or – What interventions work? We also need to begin asking: What is the right thing to do, and how can we tell? I will study the practice of prevention and health promotion, and how lay people manage their health. I will use the resulting evidence, with stakeholders, to develop new approaches to ethical problems, and ensure that interventions can be ethicall ....I am a social scientist with public health training. In public health it is routine to ask: How many people are affected by that disease? – or – What interventions work? We also need to begin asking: What is the right thing to do, and how can we tell? I will study the practice of prevention and health promotion, and how lay people manage their health. I will use the resulting evidence, with stakeholders, to develop new approaches to ethical problems, and ensure that interventions can be ethically justified.Read moreRead less
Increasing Global And National Knowledge About Illicit Drug Use, Harms And Effective Interventions
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$431,000.00
Summary
This Fellowship aims to increase global and national knowledge about drug use and related harms, and interventions to prevent harm and improve public health. It will create new knowledge that will be used by UN and international agencies, and national governments, to monitor changes in drug use and harms, and guide policy and planning for drug treatment and harm reduction services.
Preventing Chronic Disease In Australia Through Applied Intervention Research
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$415,218.00
Summary
Research supported by this fellowship will help to identify programs which are effective in reducing chronic disease risks such as tobacco use, and obesity. Furthermore, it will examine ways in which such programs can be implemented in health services and community organisations so that the community can benefit from evidence based initiatives. In doing so, the fellowship will contribute to reducing the death and disability associated with chronic disease in Australia.
An In Depth Analysis Of Clinical And Virological Outcomes Of 2 Strategies For The Antiretroviral Salvage Of First-line Regimen Virological Failure For HIV-1 Infection Tested In An Australian-led Randomised, International, Multi-centre Clinical Trial
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$421,747.00
Summary
The recently completed Australian-led SECOND-LINE trial is the first high quality study to provide reliable evidence for policy recommendations for the composition of anti-HIV drug cocktails after standard initial treatment has failed. This award will support the researcher in further refining our understanding of how to manage second-line therapy including proposals to test the use of low-cost technologies for application in resource-limited settings where the majority of people with HIV live.
Methodological Research In Meta-analysis And Evidence Synthesis: An Evidence-based Methods Approach
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$431,000.00
Summary
Systematic reviews synthesize available research to determine whether policy, health service delivery, public health, and clinical interventions are effective. Statistical methods underpin the validity of the findings in systematic reviews. This research will evaluate and develop statistical methods for systematic reviews with the aim of improving the quality of reviews and ensuring healthcare decisions are based on reliable research syntheses.
Therapeutics For Repair And Regeneration Of The Cornea
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$166,087.00
Summary
Corneal disease is the commonest cause of irreversible blindness and of the 50 million people world-wide who are bilaterally blind, 10 million are blind from corneal involvement. This proposal will address corneal disease by 1. innovative translational research for corneal repair and regeneration; 2. developing evidence-based management guidelines for corneal disease, and 3. by optimising health service delivery.