General Practice and Primary Care Research
Cancer in Primary Care
Research Program Leader : Professor Jon Emery
Our Cancer in Primary Care Research Group conducts research covering the role of primary care across the cancer continuum.
- Algorithms For Early Detection of Cancer Using Linked Primary Care Data
- CANARY: Clinical Decision Support Systems for Cancer Prevention and Early Cancer Detection
- FHT: RCT of pharmacological therapies to reduce CVD risk in those with kidney disease and of people at increased cancer risk
- IC3 Trial: RCT aiming to improve early diagnosis of liver cancer and improving patient health outcomes
- MAGPIE: Genomic testing patients with personalised melanoma, bowel, breast, and prostate cancer screening information
- PRESIDE Trial: RCT providing antidepressant medication information to patients with depressive symptoms
- SCRIPT Trial: RCT utilising a genomic test to provide personalised bowel cancer screening information
- SITA: RCT of a decision aid to support informed choices about taking aspirin to prevent cancer and other diseases
- SMARTERScreen: RCT utilising SMS messages to prompt patients overdue with bowel cancer screening
- SMARTScreen: SMS intervention with evocative videos sent to GP patients who are overdue in their bowel cancer screening
- Timeliness, Risk Factors and Outcomes in Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: a Data-linkage Study between Primary and Subsequent Care
- Understanding Patterns of Care Across the Colorectal Cancer Trajectory: A Linked Data Study
Children and Young People’s Health
Research Program Leader : Professor Lena Sanci
Our program aims to advance the health and wellbeing of children and young people through an accessible and responsive primary care workforce and health system and through effective interventions.
- Bringing family, community, culture and country to the centre of health care: culturally appropriate models for improving mental health and wellbeing in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people
- Caring for Kids: Are we adequately preparing Australian general practice registrars for primary care paediatrics?
- Dating Violence, help-seeking and Technology in Australia
- Doctors in Secondary Schools
- Fostering Health: Examining health care systems for children and young people in Out-of-Home Care
- How to measure fathers' wellbeing during childbirth? A qualitative Chilean-Australian study
- Rebate Adolescent Health (RAd Health)
- School based health services
- Sexual and Reproductive Health in Adolescence
- Social support following miscarriage
- Strengthening Care for Rural Children (SC4RC)
- Toward the health promoting university: enhancing the student experience and academic outcomes project
- Understanding and exploring adolescent health presentations in the Victorian primary care setting: A study using contemporary electronic health records
Data Driven Quality Improvement
Research Program Leader : A/Prof Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis
Our program aims to facilitate quality and system improvement in general practice using a datadriven and integrated knowledge translation approach.
- Future Health Today
- Future Health Today: Pilot project
- General practice staff attitudes to sharing deidentified patient health information for research
- Guidance GP: An antimicrobial stewardship program for general practice
- Multimorbidity and glycaemia in people with type 2 diabetes attending Australian general practice
- Quality indicators for the detection and management of chronic kidney disease in primary care
- Shared decision support for patients. An antimicrobial stewardship strategy
Data for Decisions
Data for Decisions aims to make better use of existing primary care data to improve knowledge, medical education, healthcare policy and the way medical care is delivered, and so ultimately improve the health of Australians.
- A descriptive study of the primary care use of people with a diagnosis of severe mental illness
- Chlamydia study in Victoria, Australia; comparing testing, diagnosis, treatment and re-testing rate in urban and regional area of general practice in Victoria
- Defining the burden of antimicrobial prescribing in primary care attributable to sore throat
- Evaluating a safety and efficacy protocol of a COVID-19 ‘Drive Through’ clinic
- Exploring Pathology Investigations for Suspected Diabetes in Children Attending General Practice
- Future Health Today: Detecting people at risk of chronic kidney disease
- Future Health Today: Pilot project
- GP-NAPS: The feasibility of passive audit of antibiotic prescribing in general practice
- Meeting national targets and indicators to reduce mortality from chronic illness through general practice
- Primary healthcare during the Covid-19 pandemic: describing transition to telehealth and primary care response in eight countries
- SMARTERScreen: RCT utilising SMS messages to prompt patients overdue with bowel cancer screening
- Understanding and exploring adolescent health presentations in the Victorian primary care setting
Diabetes and Cardio-Metabolic Conditions
Research Program Leader : Associate Professor John Furler
Our research group is focused on addressing a global health problem. Across the world over a billion people have diabetes and up to 15% of national health budgets are spent on diabetes, risk-factors and cardiovascular complications. Our research aims to reach a deep understanding of this complex problem to develop innovative primary care-led solutions that will improve health outcomes.
- Chronic Kidney Disease in the Management of people with Type 2 Diabetes in General Practice
- Cultural Respect Encompassing Simulation Training (CREST)
- Multimorbidity and glycaemia in people with type 2 diabetes attending Australian general practice
- The GP-OSMOTIC trial: Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Type 2 Diabetes
- Understanding antibiotic prescribing and use of guidelines in general practice
- Ways of Thinking and Ways of Doing (WoTWoD) - An Indigenous Cultural Respect Program in General Practice
Health Data Science for Medical Research
Research Program Leader : Prof Douglas Boyle
This theme spans from foundational components such as governance and consent mechanisms through to the practical delivery of translational research following Learning Health Systems methodologies. These applications range from the individual project level to national infrastructure.
- Activating pharmacists to reduce medication related problems (ACTMed)
- AHRA Transformational Data Collaboration
- ATLAS+ Improving surveillance infrastructure for Indigenous primary health care
- GooD4Mum
- i-CHAMPs
- MaGDA-2
- Primary Care Data, Linkage and Capacity Building
- Software development for FHT
- Strengthening Care for Children
- The HARMONY Study
- Trialing the implementation of a quality assurance framework in the Patron program
Primary Care Mental Health
Research Program Leader : Professor Victoria Palmer
Our vision is a primary care system which embeds person-centered mental health care to enhance physical and mental well-being- ACRE
- Co-design Living Labs
- CovidCare
- Diagnosis, Management and Outcomes of Depression in the Primary Care Setting (The Diamond Cohort Study)
- Link-me: A randomised controlled trial of a systematic model of stepped mental health care in general practice
- Self-help for Depression and Diabetes-related Distress in People With Type 2 Diabetes (SpringboarD)
- The ACCT Healthy Hearts Study
- The CORE Study
- The COVIDDA Program: The RMHive mobile app to support frontline workers in pandemics
- The Target-D Trial
- WiserAD (previously STOPS)
Sexual Abuse and Family Violence: SAFE
Research Program Leader : Professor Kelsey Hegarty
The program aims to improve the safety, health and wellbeing of women, families and communities through addressing abuse and violence.
- A Safer Families Centre of Research Excellence
- Beyond Silence
- Burndawan (safe)
- Communication and safety strategies for children- MySafety
- Early intervention with men who use violence
- Friends responses
- Healthy relationship tool for men as early engagement – BETTER MAN
- I-DECIDE: Trial of an online healthy relationship tool and safety decision aid for women experiencing domestic violence
- PROSPER: PRevalence Of unwanted Sexual contact: Pursuing Early Recognition
- Risk identification and Risk Assessment Framework
- SUSTAIN: Sustainability of Identification and Response to Family Violence in antenatal care
- WITH: Women’s Input to a Trauma-informed systems model of care in Health settings