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Research Focus
- Natural & Cultural Resource Management
- Human Health & Well-Being
- Teaching, Learning & Living
- Community, Development & Identity
Progressing the evolution of an interdisciplinary health service, leading to better health outcomes for Indigenous communities and remote-area populations. Particular focus is given to the development and evaluation of:
- Governance of health services, including policy and program development, implementation and evaluation.
- Culturally appropriate services, based on a sound understanding of the biological, environmental and social determinants of chronic and tropical diseases among Indigenous peoples, in particular.
- Multi-professional health service delivery, which seeks to build an evidence base to shape health care and the delivery of related services.
- Early origins of chronic diseases looking at building knowledge and evidence of the complex causal pathways to chronic diseases.
- Tropical and emerging infectious diseases for Indigenous people and others living in tropical and remote environments, with emphasis on developing and assessing prevention and treatment methods. It includes research on:
- Skin health, scabies, streptococci and rheumatic fever
- Tropical toxinology
- Ear and respiratory health
- Malaria and international health
- Melioidosis and emerging infectious disease.
- Welfare and community services, providing early intervention and prevention services appropriate to the social and cultural context of communities, with particular focus on:
- families and parenting
- child and adolescent health
- prevention of suicide and substance misuse
- prevention of domestic and family violence.
Research groups
- Biomedical Engineering
- Families, Youth, Community
- Child and Maternal Health - Graduate School of Health Practice and Menzies School of Health Research
- Chronic Diseases
- Environments, Services and Populations Research
- Tropical and Emerging Infectious Diseases
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